Scottish anchorages

For serious stocking up (including alcoholic beverages) you need to go to Oban, Fort William, Bowmore or Tobermory with their wide range of shops and supermarkets. More specialist shops worth a look are:

Ardalanish, South Mull: Ardalanish weavers (also walk from Bunessan, West Mull)
Tobermory: Chocolate factory, Browns for a brilliant window display and loads of ironmongery stuff along with the whisky, and the Mull Bakery and Deli for your morning croissant.

There are a few bookshops, and rather good ones too. It is well worth browsing around:

Bowmore, Islay: Celtic House
Scalasaig, Colonsay: House of Lochar
Iona bookshop
Tobermory: Tackle and Books - my favourite

And to ponder on literary inspiration visit Barnhill on Jura to remember George Orwell and 1984.

There are a several galleries and craft shops around the place:

Ardminish Bay, Gigha: Craft Workshop and Gallery
Calgary Bay, West Mull: Calgary farmhouse forest walk
Crinan, Firth of Lorne: Crinan hotel
Eigg: craft shop on the pier
Fiunary Rocks, Sound of Mull: Morvern Gallery
Fort William, Upper Loch Linnhe: Lime Tree Studio
Muck, south anchorage: craft shop
Port an Dunain, Loch Leven: F.W.Holroyd Art Gallery, Starfish Celtic Harps 
Strontian, Loch Sunart:  Woodland pottery
Tobermory, Sound of Mull: An Tobar and Tobermory pottery

These are of course all rather tempting, so avoid taking your credit card when visiting them (I must confess to occasional and not inexpensive lapses).

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