This is an independent perspective on what is a fabulously beautiful part of Scotland to which we are unequivocally committed – but open-eyed.
Scotrail is running an innovative day return service to the wild west, direct from Edinburgh to Oban – as a pilot scheme, every Sunday from 25th July until the [...]
In yet another example of Argyll and the Islands stirring with ambition, the Isle of Luing Community Trust has submitted a planning application to build an Atlantic Islands Centre in Cullipool.
This proposal was floated last year at the hugely successful Atlantic Islands festival held on the island in association with the Scottish Centre for Geopoetics [...]
Saturday’s edition (12th June) of the Daily Record’s travel section (readership 1.3 million) will include a full page promoting Argyll as part of VisitScotland’s new My Scotland campaign.
This campaign targets the Scottish domestic market - a strategy with very real value this season. There are significant numbers of people aware of the possibility of more [...]
Increasingly Argyll is building a name for itself as a major player in the renaissance of the Arts outside the Central belt. Much of the thrust for this is coming from the volunteers and grass roots enthusiasm and dedication of community groups.
This was made transparently clear in the For Argyll Awards 2009, announced on 1st [...]
(As at Midnight 24th December) Nominations have now closed.
Below is the final list of all those nominated – and a very interesting document it is. It shows the spread of activity across Argyll, it shows the hot spots and it says a lot about where Argyll’s strengths lie.
All categories are hotly contested – and the [...]
Its website is currently offline for maintenance but the latest Newsletter from the Scottish Centre for Geopoetics on the isle of Luing makes up for that.
The Centre, with Norman Bissell, ran the remarkably successful 2 week Atlantic Islands Festival this summer. The Isle of Luing Community Trust has already raised £22,000 to progress its plan [...]
In this case the tectonic plates are slate. The reverberations from the first Atlantic Islands Festival held on one of the Slate Islands – Luing, have already nudged several of these islands closer together.
Some of the movement is spiritual – world views and experiences held in common and now close to explicit. Some is physical, [...]
The inaugural Atlantic Islands Festival on Argyll’s Isle of Luing, organised by the Scottish Centre for Geopoetics, is in progress. The island is full and the living room of the event’s imagineer, Norman Bissell, has become the de facto Festival Club. Sleep is a discard.
The event has pulled strongly together the slate island communities of [...]
We don’t know what the Slate Islands are on but it’s all action there at the moment.
Luing is running its ambitious inaugural Atlantic Islands Festival. Seil is the focus of attention on the BBC’s Beechgrove Garden programme tonight (8th July) with its newly created Community Drill Gall Garden. And Easdale’s Puffer Bar is majoring on [...]
We and our visitors are spoiled for choice this weekend and its all more or less on the water.
The Crinan Classic Boat Festival began on 2nd July and runs until Sunday 5th, this year graced by, among others, the visit of Sceptre, the Americas Cup yacht built at Robertson’s Yard at Sandbank on the [...]
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The Walking Theatre Company’s successful run at the Historic Scotland site at Bonawe is closing tomorrow with a sold out performance to families and school children. Performer Liam Calgie says, ’We’ve been delighted working with Historic Scotland in this magnificent place and hope to return next year.’
The society is to publish their new book, Gravestones and Memorials of Strachur and Strathlachlan at a launch event in Strachur Memorial Hall on Saturday 11th Sept.
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