Decades ago, my job required me to make a few trips to the UK. After several visits I decided to rent a car.

Unlike America, it was possible to get a rental with a manual transmission. Surprisingly for me, shifting with the wrong hand was more unnatural than driving on the wrong side of the road !!

I'm planning to rent a car when I visit Scotland in a couple of years though. There are too many organized tours to count, but none I've found include the Isle of Islay on the itinerary.

After seeing how far it is out of the way, I understand why