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Communications

Postal services are the same as for mainland Britain, but there is poor, limited and variable mobile phone coverage across much of the island.

There are very few places where you can connect to the internet, and such as there are will be found in Tobermory. Most hotels, however, do now have wireless connections.

English is spoken everywhere; Gaelic hardly at all. Until within the last hundred years, however, Gaelic was the everyday language; today it is heard only among a small number of the older population. Yet, in Salen school, there is a Gaelic unit teaching children from three to 11 years old in Gaelic, and the Mull Gaelic Choir (Còisir Ghàidhlig an Eilein Mhuilich) is renowned throughout Scotland.

Walking along the raised beach, Treshnish (Walk 1.10)

Using This Guide

Walking on Mull ranges from short and easy outings not far from civilisation, to rugged, hard mountain, moorland and coastal walking – as demanding as any in Britain – in isolated locations, where help is far away. Almost all of it demands a high level of fitness and knowledge of the techniques and requirements necessary to travel safely in wild countryside in very changeable weather conditions, including the ability to use map and compass properly.