It’s all I hear, I would love to hire a Motorhome and do the NC500, then just to make matters worse spend a week on Skye then head for Glencoe. And when do they want to do this, during the high season, when half of us, and Europe have the same idea. So off they go with one hours tuition on what to do with their rented 7m Motorhome, with little knowledge of how everything works, little experience of driving such a vehicle on narrow single track roads, and worse of all, little knowledge or understanding of our etiquette when wild camping. It’s a recipe for disaster.
I really wish we would stop putting names on driving routes, it tends to make people behave like sheep. It’s ironic when they head up there what do they complain about, to many people,
which defeats the whole purpose of heading there in the first place. What we have done is take what was a pristine rural part of Scotland and turned into place most parts of the year I would rather avoid. The fact that it was pristine and rural was in the past its main attraction.
My advice is wait till early winter and do the trip then, and try not to watch too many videos of others on YouTube who will tell you where to go. Be open minded and go there with at least some of the trip unplanned. It used to be a beautiful part of Scotland, but now it’s on a par with Glencoe. What sets Scotland apart from England in rural areas is the lack of people, and there are still many parts of Scotland were you can spend a day hillwalking and meet no one all day, and if you do meet someone they will probably be like minded individuals, long may it last.
