The Kintyre peninsula is wonderfully empty – let’s hope the splendid Seafood Cabin doesn’t change that
The Seafood Cabin, Skipness, by Tarbert, Argyll PA29 6XU. Rolls £3-£5, salads £5-£13.50, specialities £5-£13.50, desserts 75p-£2.25, wines from £15
The Kintyre peninsula, which hangs down the western edge of Scotland, is not particularly northerly but it is surprisingly remote. By car, you have to go up to go down and the journey ends looking across Kilbrannan Sound to the coast you drove along three and half hours earlier. There is a nicer way of doing it, via two ferries and a trip across Arran, but miss the boat and you may get stranded. So it remains relatively unvisited, which is why I guess Paul and Linda McCartney chose it to escape Beatlemania. I, too, have found refuge here for the past 15 years or so, as an annual visitor rather than a temporary resident, and love its beauty, its wildlife, its seclusion so much I wonder if I should write about it at all. The McCartneys did, in Mull of Kintyre, the video filmed at Saddell with its wide and pristine beach, and a bit further up, just past the harbour where the little ferry from Arran comes and goes, is Skipness.
