yes its in north west Scotland ;)

At the western end of the Forth & Clyde Canal on the River Clyde, where the canal joins the river. It's 11 miles west of Glasgow City Centre.

Ok thanks

It took us 5.5 hours by ferry from Oban and then two full days cycling (plus two other ferries of 40 minutes and 1 hour respectively).

It was brilliant, although the Midges were terrible the following day (Episode 6)!

Can you take a train from Arbroath to there

Not directly. You would either take a train to Oban then cycle up the islands and take several ferries (as we did), or a train to Kyle of Lochalsh (via Inverness) then cycle across Skye and another ferry.

Donald Millican

Ok THANK YOU

The winning act of a "Talent" show at my church. This lot were by far the silliest of all, which is probably why they won!

We stayed in independent hostels while in the Hebrides. The quality of the hostels/bunkhouses was somewhat variable, but fine for one night each.

thanks Donald ;) , I was going to take my tent but it does look a tad barren of any shelter from the elements , owt's better than nowt as they say ;)

Indeed. We encountered some fine weather, but also horizontal driving rain with a near-gale force wind. That said we met someone who did wild camp the whole way, so it is possible :)

that's what I was thinking of haha , how did you get back to oban , did you use the cycle taxi that I've read about ? , it supposedly takes you back to the start and the ferry home

We didn't go back to Oban as we all live in Glasgow, so we caught a train back from Inverness. We did use the Bike Bus from Ullapool to Inverness which was an experience! The driver did a steady 60mph the whole way and we were quite surprised our bikes were still on the open trailer when we got to Inverness :)