Isle of Arran - Part 1

Its been ages since I wrote a travel post.  Hence picked up the recent most travel experience of drooling over a pretty island.  For a small island like Arran, I thought 3 days is a long time, but it wasn't nearly enough time, especially if the weather is good.

Isle of Arran is located on the south western part of Scotland.  It took us 2 hours from Edinburgh by train travel to reach Ardrossan, a harbour from where we had to take the ferry.   For gods sake, to me it wasn't a ferry.  It looked as big as a cruise ship (one like titanic!!..Ok..that's a bit too much..but it looked like that...see for yourself in the pic).  The ship had a coffee shop, restaurant and a little souvenir shop inside the ferry. We enjoyed our 50 minute travel in the ferry that took us to Brodick.  This is a big village in the whole island with majority settlement and as a principal point of entry into the island.

It was raining on and off all day and we decided just to walk around Brodick.  We went through along this lovely stretch, entered through the golf court.  This was about 2 mile walking and the place was absolutely stunning. 

We saw rainbow quite a number of times throughout our walk playing hide and seek.  Here's some pictures of rainbows..

and rainbow with their reflections...

We spent some more time around the place lazing around, sitting and chatting along the shores enjoying the weather, sea, rainbow all that were overlooking the largest mountain of Arran - Goatfell (picture below).

After lazing around, we left to our beautiful B&B that is located on top of a little hill overlooking the sea and mountains.  

And that's the view from our room that overlooks sea.  It was so pretty to see the sea early in the morning during sunrise. And it's a lovely feeling to wake up to watch sea and mountain rather than buildings and traffic.  


Brodick is a nice little village to relax and have a laid back life.  There are shops around Brodick but not that very many restaurants - just a few of them.  But the fact is...there are more B&Bs in Arran than anywhere!