Meandering a mesmeric 100 miles around the narrow peninsula, the Kintyre Way offers unforgettable experiences by the bucketload
. Here, Dominic Ryan, in the company of his faithful collie Star, provides a personal guide to one of Scotland’s less travelled long-distance trails
Of course, all the Way’s sections together are simply too expansive to record in a single story but theof this route is you can easily dip in and out – like some of the select number who’ve already discovered the Way, Star and I opt for short and manageable portions – and so that’s what we’ll do here too.
You quickly appreciate why a large part of this wonderland, Largiebaan Wildlife Reserve, is renowned for its embarrassing wealth of wildlife, from red-billed choughs to docile deer and feral yet friendly goats. Its’ always tempting to take more time out to explore its web of trails and footpaths and linger awhile in one of the hides, perhaps to catch a lucky glimpse of a Scottish wild cat. Of course, the south has its human history, too.
Legendary Scots naturalist John Muir wrote: “I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.” “Freedom an’ whisky gang thegither!” opined Burns. Fresh from the freedom of walking the Way, Glenscotia Distillery is the place to sample uisce beatha or the ‘water of life’. Tours of the Campbeltown distillery reveal what really goes into creating its single malt scotch.
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