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IN the halcyon days of heading Doon the Watter, Arran sparkled as a Clyde holiday hotspot; now ‘Scotland in Miniature’ is set to sparkle again after the baleful lockdown lifts as an antidote to the pandemic-ravaged world. Arran has never been better geared towards the holiday-starved, as I found when I hopped back last autumn on CalMac, bound not for amusement arcades and donkey rides, but new distilleries, hipster gin and boat fresh seafood on an isle where change is afoot. In tandem with the more traditional Clydeside-resort trappings a new Arran has emerged that savvy travellers are discovering. It is an oasis of superb produce, world-class whisky and bright new businesses that are bringing life to hills so dramatic that Ayrshire-born Robert Burns didn’t even bother trying to wax lyrical about them.
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