Islay

There are Post Offices at Bowmore, Port Ellen, Port Askaig, Port Charlotte and Bridgend, although they have even more limited opening hours than normal post office branches. There are also a number of phone boxes scattered around the island. Mobile phone reception can be quite patchy, and you can only depend on it in the reasonable-sized villages. The Ardberg distillery for example has no reception on any network in spite of the fact that it is only a few miles from Port Ellen. The area code for the whole of Islay and Jura is 01496.