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( www.firstportofcoll.com ; mains £6-13; 11am-2pm & 5-9pm Mon, Tue & Thu-Sat,
noon-6pm Sun) This cheerful little cafe serves hearty, homemade meals such as sausage
and mash with onion gravy, haddock and chips, and vegetarian cottage pie, accompanied
by organic beer, wine and cider. Last orders for evening meals are at 7.30pm.
Information
Arinagour, 0.5 miles from the ferry pier, is the only village on Coll, and is home to the Is-
land Stores (Arinagour; 10am-5.30pm Mon & Fri, 10am-1pm Tue & Thu,
9am-5.30pm Wed, 9.30am-5pm Sat) grocery shop, a post office (with ATM), some craft
shops and a petrol pump. There is no reliable mobile-phone signal on the island; there are
payphones at the pier and in the hotel. For more information see www.visitcoll.co.uk .
Getting There & Around
AirHebridean Air Services ( 0845 805 7465; www.hebrideanair.co.uk ) operates
flights from Connel Airfield (near Oban) to Coll (£65 one way, twice daily Monday and
Wednesday).
Bike There is no public transport on Coll. Mountain bikes can be hired from the post of-
fice in Arinagour for £10 per day.
Boat A CalMac ( www.calmac.co.uk ) car ferry runs from Oban to Coll (passenger/car
£18.50/95 return, 2¾ hours, one daily) and continues to Tiree (one hour), except on Wed-
nesday and Friday when the boat calls at Tiree first. The one-way fare from Coll to Tiree
is £2.90/14.10 per passenger/car.
On Thursdays only, you can take a ferry from Coll and Tiree to Barra in the Outer
Hebrides (£7.85/39 one way, four hours).