Put a spring in your step with this selection of 10 short, easy-paced, walks on the isles of Mull, Iona and Ulva for all the family to enjoy ...

The great abbey we see today belongs to a later ... In 849 AD Columba's relics were removed and divided two ways between Scotland and Ireland. Iona may have been abandoned, but in the 10th century ...

This describes the lighting situation in Iona Abbey on the wee isle off the west coast of Scotland. You could say I was following in the footsteps of St. Columba but about 1,400 years too late.

Meanwhile, the most famous and historic building on the island is Iona Abbey. Among the oldest Christian centres in Europe, it is often considered to be Scotland's birthplace of Christianity.