Isle Of Arran Stories


I Luv Arran

To be honest it didn’t look that far on the map, but as with most of our trips into the wild blue yonder, we kind of under-estimated the length of time it takes to get from East Yorkshire to the Ayrshire ferry port of Ardrossan. Admittedly our journey was hampered by large swathes of Northern England deciding it looked best under 4ft of rain water, but ...


Study Abroad

The Isle of Arran is a small island off the coast of Scotland that has four times as many sheep as people. The landscape is breathtaking, with gorgeous beaches and coasts and rolling, monstrous hills in the interior. Lakes and rivers crisscrossed throughout as well. Our hostel was amazing! There was a kitchen area with lots of cubbies where people c...


Horse Trekking

I met the nicest people today. We all stopped at N Sannox by bus for horse trekking and I started talking to one lady when we got off and she said she was traveling with the people she worked with. They are in a design company. 7 or 8 people went riding first. Then as we were all waiting, a blond-haired Scot asked if I’d like a sandwich, beer or win...


Night in Brodick

Here I am on the Caledonian MacBrayne. Basically, I left Largs when I got bored. I didn’t even go to Nardinis as planned because I felt so out of place. I took the train to Ardrossan S Beach and walked 30 minutes to the ferry. I feel even more isolated being on this ship as at least people go in groups and here I am traveling alone. It’s really sca...