When I read the sad news about the Jura Passenger Ferry on Friday I Tweeted “Bugger… No funding for Jura Passenger Ferry”. The Jura Passenger Ferry service between Tayvallich and Craighouse, operated by the Isle of Jura Development Trust, won’t sail due to a loss of necessary funding. The funds to keep the service running [...]
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April 16 2011
A Winter Walk on the Paps of Jura
James Deane is from the neighbouring Isle of Islay and is a very talented photographer, although he started just a few years ago. You probably won’t believe me when you see the images here and on his website but it’s true. James visited the Isle of Jura early March and walked through miles of boggy [...]
April 1 2011
Jura Passenger Service Withdrawn
The Oban Times reports that the Award-winning Jura Passenger Ferry Service will not run this year because of a lack of support from the local authority and government, say the ferry operators. The three-year pilot project to run a passenger ferry service between Craighouse on the Isle of Jura and Tayvallich on the Argyll mainland, [...]
January 21 2011
Jura Distillery Photo Competition
The Isle of Jura Distillery is running a photography competition with some very attractive prices, including a trip to Jura, Olympus camera’s and much more. All you have to do is upload your favourite Jura picture and add a wee bit of text. You shouldn’t wait too long, the competition closes tonight. I have uploaded [...]
January 8 2011
Jura House Walled Garden Image Gallery
During our last trip to Jura, in May 2010, we had beautiful weather and on such lovely spring days a visit to Jura House Gardens on the Ardfin Estate is highly recommended. When the Campbells of Jura built Jura House and its adjacent walled garden, they picked a lovely spot on its south shore with [...]
January 7 2011
Isle of Jura, tasting whisky and sheep shearing
I was reading the Isle of Jura newsletter today and came across a very interesting entry by Willie Cochrane, the Jura Distillery Manager: “Some of you may have got a nice Jura surprise the other night if you were sitting down to watch the TV and spotted Jura – the island, the distillery and me! [...]
August 23 2010
Jura Passenger Ferry Safe For Now
Argyll and Bute Council, Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) and the Jura Development Trust have together found an additional £15,000 for the ferry service. This means the service will complete the entire three years of its pilot phase and can be fully assessed before decisions are made about its future viability. The council took the [...]
August 19 2010
Colour Change for Jura Hotel
Jura Hotel has changed owners last year and in the last months the outside of the building has received a completely new layer of white paint. The result is fabulous and the building looks so much better than it did before. Although the picture is taken on the wrong time of day, with backlight, I [...]
August 4 2010
End of Jura Passenger Ferry?
A reader from the Jura blog sent me a link to a somewhat alarming article on the Herald website. In the article is written that there is a possiblity that the Jura Passenger ferry will cease before the end of the three year trial period due to a lack of funding. Not only the fact [...]
