The Gulf of Corryvreckan is a narrow strait between the islands of Jura and Scarba on the west coast of Scotland. The rest of Jura can be explored fairly easily if you take a car on the ferry but note that the roads are single-track with few passing places and not too many safe spots to park due to the vast swathes of spongy blanket bog that covers the majority of the island.Ģ: Corryvreckan whirlpool. I wasn’t lying when I said that part of the island is remote!
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Orwell was so taken with the remoteness of this part of the island that he wrote 1984 while staying there, so if you’re a fan of the author you might consider making a booking – though you’ll be relying on a generator for electricity and a coal-fired heater for hot water. This house was a favourite retreat for George Orwell and it’s so remote you’ll need a 4×4 to get there. Check out the Jura Hotel website for availability.Īnother recommended place to stay (but not by me as it currently costs £1000 a week!) is Barnhill farmhouse located on the far north of the island. I wholeheartedly recommend you consider the hotel for at least one night, especially considering the prices are reasonable as well. The rooms are a bit basic by modern city standards but they’re clean and comfortable and the food in the restaurant is excellent. One option for an overnight stay is to book a room at the Jura hotel next door which features fantastic views overlooking the harbour where you’ll be treated to an almost untouched landscape of sandy bays and deep-blue water, guaranteeing a memorable evening watching the sunset with a fine whisky in hand. Instead, go to the Jura distillery website and fill in your details 24 hours beforehand to reserve your space, and remember there’s a good chance you’ll get a sample or two during your visit so you won’t be able to drive afterwards. You can join a distillery tour when you visit (around £10 per person) which is well worth taking the time for, but note that booking is essential so don’t get there and expect to immediately join the tour.
I tried a few samples during my visit and I can totally recommend both ‘Origin’ (honey finish) and ‘Prophecy’ (peat finish) if you’re after a decent dram or three. Isle of Jura whisky ranges in flavours from non-peated to heavily peated so it manages to bridge the gap between the sweet floral notes of mainland whisky and the often medicinal whisky produced on Islay. When I first arrived at the tiny Feolin ferry terminal I wasn’t quite sure what to expect because, as is usual, I picked the one day out of the entire week when the weather turned decidedly wet.Ī heavy mist hung in the air and the skies were grey and foreboding – not exactly an inviting scene when you’ve come to an island to explore its beaches. Not quite the eyeball-popping landscape you’ll find on Skye, but wild, open, and atmospheric all the same. That’s pretty impressive when you consider that deer on Jura outnumber humans 25 to 1!īut it’s not just the animals that make Jura worthy of a visit as the scenery is absolutely drop-dead gorgeous.
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Not that Craighouse is a large village (it’s actually tiny) but there’s a distillery sited in the centre of it along with a hotel that overlooks a very picturesque beach, so it’s certainly worth visiting if you ever decide to take the ferry from Port Askaig to explore the remarkable landscape.Īlthough Jura is quite small at 142 square miles it’s absolutely full of wildlife and a visit will almost certainly guarantee sightings of herds of red deer, whose numbers currently hover around the 5000 mark.
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