Having arrived at Craignure, we enjoyed a bus ride to Tobermory. This small town is well known and has been for ages, but these days it has an alter ego for it is also Balamory in a BBC children’s TV program.
‘What’s
the story in Balamory?
Wouldn’t
you like to know?
What’s the
story in Balamory?
Wouldn’t you like to go?’
Yes, we would like to go – to the real name of Tobermory and now we can tell you the story.
Tobermory was a new fishing harbour built towards the end of the eighteenth century. The main street runs along the edge of the harbour and the village or town climbs steeply above it. Just why many of the Main Street houses were painted brightly, I do not know, but those coats of paint made Tobermory a big tourist place. And of course, on our arrival that was what we were keen to see.
The lifeboat seemed to be at the yacht area.
This building was once a bonded warehouse in connection with the Tobermory distillery.
We arrived on Main Street or its Gaelic equivalent.
