Travel up the bonnie banks of Loch Lomond and around Loch Long to Inveraray, a picturesque small town on the banks of Loch Fyne. Visit Inveraray Castle, home to the Duke of Argyll, with beautifully preserved interiors spanning many generations of Campbells. The Castle is a remarkable and unique piece of architecture featuring four imposing French influenced conical spires surmounting the stone castellated towers.

Take a wander around The Edinburgh Woollen Mill for a wonderful selection of traditional and contemporary knitwear, high street fashions and many gifts and souvenirs or browse some of the unique shops situated on the main street, especially the Loch Fyne Whisky Shop where you may even be offered a dram! A fascinating insight into prison life in the 19th century awaits you at Inveraray Jail, then make your escape west to Loch Awe.

Kilchurn Castle has a four-storey tower built in the mid-15th century by Sir Colin Campbell, 1st of Glenorchy. Much enlarged in 1693, it incorporates the first purpose-built barracks in Scotland. The substantial ruins are some of the most picturesque in the country with spectacular views down Loch Awe. Your overnight accommodation is Ardanaseig Hotel built in the Scottish Baronial manner for Colonel Archibald Campbell of Clan Campbell in 1834 and sitting on the banks of Loch Awe in the shadow of Ben Cruachan.

We enjoy more of Mull visiting the Macquarie Mausoleum near Gruline. This is the burial place of Major General Lachlan Macquarie of Ulva (1761 - 1824), the first Governor of New South Wales and 'father of Australia' then north to Tobermory, a fishing port in the late 18th century it is now the main village on Mull and a picture-postcard of a place with the brightly painted buildings along the main street to the pier and the high wooded hills surrounding the bay. Overlooking the bay on the hill above the harbour is the Western Isles Hotel.

For your final day you may wish to find your sea legs and take a boat trip to Fingal's Cave on the enchanting Isle of Staffa, a truly awesome natural phenomenon with immense hexagonal pillars looming out of the sea before making our way back to Craignure to catch the ferry back to the mainland. Travel back around Loch Awe and onto Crianlarich then turn south to travel the entire length of Loch Lomond before returning to Glasgow.