Journey to Oban: Scotland's Best-Kept Secret

While traveling in the West Scottish Highlands we came across the beautiful and charming seaside town of Oban. Everything about Oban says "this town has great seafood" and the appearances are correct!

We enjoyed a delicious dinner at the Olive Garden... if you are American, not the Olive Garden you are thinking of... and then we walked around the town center and toured the highlight of Oban McCaig's Tower. Watch our video for great tips and insights about the wonderful town of Oban.



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[barrymarshall]

What a wonderful family. Thank you for making the UK your adopted home. We really appreciate it.

[ynys_mon]

It’s so heartwarming to see a family saying grace over their meal. You are such a respectful family.

[jonathangoll]

I love Oban, and know it well. My parents had a long retirement on the Isle of Mull - which you saw in the distance. So I often visited them, and for a while after their deaths I still owned their property on Mull. I always had to go through Oban, and at least once had to stay overnight, because the seas were so rough.
You showed the ferry to Mull. Notice its large size - the seas can be formidable here.
Did you also notice its name? An t-Eilean Muileach. That is the Scottish Gaelic ( pronounced gallic) for the Isle of Mull. As you get further north and west in the Highlands, you approach the area in which Scottish Gaelic is still spoken, the 'Gaidhealtachd'.

[hunterpdx]

I visited Oban for the first time in April. Fell in love with it.

[dantemedici]

Mate you’ve seen more of the Uk in a year than I’ve seen in 47 years !

[heeeeeresrossy]

Thank you for featuring my wee town. I hope you guys had a great time 🥰

[angelatester]

Thank you - all. Thoroughly enjoyed seeing Oban again. So glad you all had a good time.

[Oscarspaw]

What a lovely family, so glad you enjoyed our fantastic seafood, scenery, and country. Oban is beautiful, but so is most of Scotland.

[rollocardiff]

The most relaxing and positive channel on youtube!

[Kevin-mxvi]

I'm delighted that you've visited Oban because it's a very special place. It's just a shame you weren't staying there or nearby so you could take the half day boat trip along Loch Etive, just north of the town, where you'd have seen seals in the loch and herds of red deer on the surrounding mountains.
Last time I did that it was June and still cold, but Blakeley's smile would have turned it to high summer ! 😊

[QuinnMiss....London.born]

Beautiful family, beautiful grandmother.

[viper]

Another great vlog..gives a good feel for the place! The food looked amazing! Great family! People say aren't you lucky you got good kids, no luck about it! It's the way you bring them up!

[Sue]

You chose a great place for dinner. Tiramisu is my favourite! All the food looked great and it was lovely to glimpse the adorable twins. You certainly get around. 🙂 Very interesting video and I loved the drone footage. Thanks, Mac.

[murdomackenzie]

I'm glad you had fun in our beautiful town. If you come back you need to try the food from the Green Shack

[ignatiuskhan]

Love your Scotland videos for they bring back memories. And congrats to your kids for not being food shy, trying mussels (and escargots in France) while so many kids will only stick to their burgers. There's kids well schooled!

[lorraineyoung]

Great video, my husband went to Oban last year with a couple of friends for charter fishing and had a fabulous time. I believe they were fishing for Skate. I've very much enjoyed seeing the other things the town has to offer on this video thank youbfor sharing your visit . What a lovely place. And you can certainly see that it is a seafood heaven! 😁

[rorschch]

Hi so you have a new subscriber here because my wife and I were in Oban in early July on our way to Mull.
Personally I love oysters and I had some from the seafood place with the menu at 4:39 in your video.
My wife, not a fan of oysters, opted for the langoustine. Both of which were fantastic if you like that sort of thing. Anyway as a first time visitor to Oban its a really great place We had a similar length of time in Oban as you seemed to and our experience was much the same. So thanks to the good people of Oban and congratulations to you managing to get your entire family there, I thought that getting two of us there was hard enough so hats off to you.

[tracy]

We went to oban a few years ago with my 3 kids and partner what a beautiful place we also went across to Mull and the sea was so blue we had a picnic by a beautiful church.
We went on a little boat and it was so beautiful when we got there the wild life was stunning ...I'd love to go back

[gillyUK]

So great to see you all having a lovely time together in Scotland. I'm in Wales and now Oban is on my bucket list. I'll have to go by train I think, but definitely want to go. God bless x

[arlenedownie]

Are you planning on a visit to Stirling? The castle is a great day out, you could spend a whole day there! It’s nice to see that you’re getting decent weather!