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castle, ferry, humor, international, Isle of Gigha, Islen of Arran, Kintyre, Scotland, The Boathouse Restaurant, travel
How to Lunch. (A Ferry Tale for Island Lovers.)
Once upon island-time, four women wanted to go out to lunch.

So we pointed the car north, past basking seals and a waking island, to the medium sized ferry at Locharanza. (Wait for it…)
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It was just right! So was the fabulous lunch at the much-awarded Boathouse Restaurant. You probably haven’t lived a fully rich and rewarded life until you’ve had local Gigha smoked halibut followed by their Bramble and Whisky Ice Cream, with its complex peaty spirit infusing the berries and cream. [moans]

We lingered so long at the booth under JJ Cowan’s charming painting, we missed our connection to the ferry. Luckily.

That meant we had (almost) enough time to explore Skipness Castle, which (along with Lochranza Castle on Arran) has been guarding the Kintyre peninsula since the twelfth century.
What a fabulous day out!
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Nothing like a 10-hour lunch on a Scottish isle!
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That is what I call doing lunch right!
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Absolutely!
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A perfect way to spend a day.
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So perfect!
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Time well spent! Question: I have been watching reruns of ‘Judging Amy’. I am enjoying it. The writing is tight and covers many difficult topics with honesty and appropriate humour. I saw the name Alex Taub, one of yours?
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Not that I know of. Apparently, “Taub” is a somewhat common name.
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I have never seen it before. Thanks for letting me know.
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Fabulous… and that ice-cream sounds like heaven.
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It was incredible!
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Sounds it 🙂
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A Goldilocks tale of the 3 ferries. So fun. I would like to live again so I could try that lovely lunch and of course the ice cream. I think all ice cream should be infused with spirits. 😉 A 10-hour lunch sounds perfect.
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And we all lunched happily ever after.
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Love it!!! I’ve done 5-hour lunches before, but never 10. You always do everything in such grand style, Barb!
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Wish I’d known about this place earlier. Next time?
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Absolutely!!
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I would love a ten hour lunch that includes a ferry trip (or two) and a castle, Barb.
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4 ferry trips, 1 restaurant in an old boathouse, 1 smokehouse and shop, 2 medieval castles, and a pod of seals. I’m stunned we fit it all into ten hours!
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You and my husband would make a great pair. Our holidays are exhausting, Barb.
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The most perfect day!! You can´t make these things up. Well, you could but no one would believe you.
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You’ve got that right!
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I love the pictures of the castle. So cool.
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It was particularly fun having Tim James showing us around, telling us the stories of his childhood playing inside the castle, pointing out medieval loos, talking about the resident ghost, the Green Lady (who, sadly, he admitted he’d never met). He showed us where the “old” chapel had been before the “new” one was built a field over in the 1300s when the castle was enlarged. He pointed to the now roofless building, mentioning that the last three generations of his family buried there were still awaiting headstones. “But we know who they are and where,” he explained. “We have time to get around to headstones.”
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You keep talking like that … and I’ll have to fly over there.
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Well…of course you’re welcome any time, but I have to confess that everything I mentioned in this post is closing at end of September and won’t open again until spring 2020. Population on our little island goes from 20K+ in summer to only about 3.5K year round, and most restaurants/shops/etc close for winter months. I have to say I almost prefer the winters, with the peaceful and beautifully stark views. (Of course, the four-hour days do get a bit hard to take—hence my Januarys in India.)
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Lovely. Absolutely.
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Fabulous, Barb!!
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