Strontian

What a strange place with its 1960s village and village centre which is about a mile from the anchorage, and yet the area has loads of history as a lead mining centre in the 18th and 19th centuries and, of course, the story of the discovery of the element named, after the place, strontium. There is a play park, not a bad small supermarket, a café and a very nice small pottery and craft shop selling only things made locally - Woodland Pottery. The Strontian Hotel built in about 1808 looked attractive, does meals and is nearer the anchorage (ph 01967 402029). Kilcamb Lodge Hotel and restaurant (ph 01967 402257) looks rather posh and I have not been there but it seems worth a visit; it is in the Good Food Guide and the chef is German.