Am i cheating...Will i be Ostracised from the site.!!!!!!!

[Deleted member 20892]

We are going away on Tuesday the 17th July heading north to Scotland....However, we will be taking the motorbike and camping in a TENT, and leaving the m/home at home so to speak.!

We hope to island hop taking in Harris, Mull, and such like, (the Mrs jt has a thing about seeing Tobermory) and hopefully taking in the full west coast up to Skye and beyond.
Finally, and as we're there heading to J.O.G. and then see what happens.!
I also want to go and see the Old man of Hoy, as an ex climber, i'm hoping there will people there trying to get up it.
When we get back, gonna take a few days at home, then take the m/home to the east coast for a few days to get some redemption from wild camping peeps.!!!!!!

jt

 

[Rubbertramp]

This is a great road to do on your bike.........

The Applecross Pass.avi - YouTube

 

[oldtech]

All are welcome here ! ...( well , nearly all )

We are going away on Tuesday the 17th July heading north to Scotland....However, we will be taking the motorbike and camping in a TENT, and leaving the m/home at home so to speak.!
take the m/home to the east coast for a few days to get some redemption from wild camping peeps.!!!!!!
jt

Hi John
Re . " Will I be ostracised etc ... "

Yes indeed ! ... "you will have your tongue ripped out and be buried at the low water mark"

.... oops , sorry ! ..... I was getting confused there with another "society". :lol-061:

As I understand it , this forum is open to anyone who likes wildcamping , regardless of the method they use
to get to their destination , or what they live in when they get there .
On that basis cyclists and pedestrians ( not to be confused with pederasts ) should be equally welcome .

Having said that , most of what I say is not true ( incuding this sentence !! ).

Enjoy your trip !
Oldtech

 

[2cv]

This is a great road to do on your bike.........

The Applecross Pass.avi - YouTube

I'm looking forward to Applecross in my 2cv next month!

 

[Rubbertramp]

I'm looking forward to Applecross in my 2cv next month!

Here's hoping you won't have to do an "Ant Hill Mob"

 

[Northerner]

This is a great road to do on your bike.........

The Applecross Pass.avi - YouTube

We went over the pass to Applecross in our motorhome last year and it was a doddle. On the way back we took the long scenic route round the coast but I can thoroughly recommend the trip. Applecross is a lovely little place with a pub that serves good food.

Probably wouldn't recommend it in an R.V. though.

 

[Smaug]

Didn't we all start out tenting anyway? Our family sure did.

Pic from 1970; we shared a tent with my Bro & his Wife so we couldn't go away together!

 

[Northerner]

Didn't we all start out tenting anyway? Our family sure did.

Pic from 1970; we shared a tent with my Bro & his Wife so we couldn't go away together!
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Happy days. About a hundred years ago my new wife and I were camping at Morvich, a few miles before Kyle of Lochalsh. If memory serves it was a Forestry Commission site in those days. We had a tiny ridge tent and I'd rigged a canvas extension so that we could cook on our Primus without it getting soaked. Some children came around and asked if we really lived in this little tent. It turned out that they had an enormous frame tent with blow-up armchairs and all the gubbins. They'd been naughty and daddy had said something along the lines of: "You lot don't know how lucky you are. Just go round the corner and look at those poor people in their little tent."

Later that day when it was pouring down and we were cooking our beans for tea, a caravan pulled up opposite. The man nipped out, wound down the corner steadies and, in what seemed like about five minutes, he and his wife were sitting at the table and, whilst she cooked the meal, he was enjoying a glass of Beaujolais.

I thought: "Sod this" and the following week bought a second-hand Sprite Alpine for about three hundred quid. A month later I modernised it by fitting a foot pump for the water supply (only cold!). Ah, the smell of the burning gas mantles!

 

[John H]

Happy days. About a hundred years ago my new wife and I were camping at Morvich, a few miles before Kyle of Lochalsh. If memory serves it was a Forestry Commission site in those days. We had a tiny ridge tent and I'd rigged a canvas extension so that we could cook on our Primus without it getting soaked. Some children came around and asked if we really lived in this little tent. It turned out that they had an enormous frame tent with blow-up armchairs and all the gubbins. They'd been naughty and daddy had said something along the lines of: "You lot don't know how lucky you are. Just go round the corner and look at those poor people in their little tent."

Later that day when it was pouring down and we were cooking our beans for tea, a caravan pulled up opposite. The man nipped out, wound down the corner steadies and, in what seemed like about five minutes, he and his wife were sitting at the table and, whilst she cooked the meal, he was enjoying a glass of Beaujolais.

I thought: "Sod this" and the following week bought a second-hand Sprite Alpine for about three hundred quid. A month later I modernised it by fitting a foot pump for the water supply (only cold!). Ah, the smell of the burning gas mantles!

Good grief - we seem to be two sides of the same coin (apart from the fact that it happened to us in Denmark rather than Scotland). This is getting worrying!

PS Jenny still misses the gas mantle in our old Sprite.

 

[Smaug]

:lol-049:

I still have my uncle's 1973 Opal Amethyst caravan on the drive with 2 gas mantle lights! Only got one mantle left tho, very hard to find nowadays, so we fitted 12v lights & have 2 table lamps if on EHU. But gas lights were great - heat & light at he same time. Pity the mantles never survived a single journey!