Barra

I took the opportunity to tick an item off my bucket list this summer and took the flight from Glasgow to Barra Beach in the Outer Hebrides with a colleague. It’s the only place in world where a commercial aircraft lands on a beach. I was incredibly lucky insomuch as the weather was good for the flight and the Captain decided to take a decidedly none standard route. after take-off, we flew down Loch Lomond through the national park before turning left down the Great Glen over Arrochar, Tobermory and Oban before crossing the sea to Barra, all at only a 1000 fleet altitude. We had three hours on the island so had arranged for a tour with a local who originated in Birmingham. On the way, back we took a more direct route past Fingal’s cave Oban and down the Holy Loch. It was a fantastic day out and is now up there as my all time number one flight ever having displaced the Singapore Airlines flight where I had an amazing view of Kazakhstan whilst listening to 101 hits from the 1980’s on the IFE to second place.