Left in limbo as a vital connecting bus leaves without him, BOB HIND continues on the second part* of his tour of the bus routes of Scotland’s offshore islands, making sometimes agonisingly tight transfers as he visits Jura, Islay and Mull
* Part 1 last month
DAY 2 CONTINUED
My campervan heroes
I have arrived, from the Isle of Arran, at Claonaig ferry terminal on the Kintyre peninsula to see my West Coast Motors 12.36 connection disappear without me.
The crewman asks where I am headed and is momentarily taken aback when I tell him I had intended to catch the 13.00 Islay ferry from Kennacraig, 5miles away. He disappears and, as the vehicles prepare to disembark, returns to tell me that the couple in the front camper van will take me to the Kennacraig terminal but cannot guarantee that they can get me there by one o’clock as they are not local and do not know the roads.
I grab the opportunity, gushing with thanks, as I am strapped into an armchair inside the camper van and we start off along a singletrack road as fast as my new friends can shift the elderly vehicle. The couple, from East Yorkshire, are heading to the north coast, up the west and down the east sides of Scotland (memories of my round Britain…
