Shhhhh ....don't tell folksMy favourite part which I always recommend and a lot of people miss out is the Coigach peninsula making sure you go right round the coast to Rieff. The views over the Summer isles are. Then from there you take the Inverkirkaig road to the waterfall.
I wonāt tell a soul
Thereās only 2 so far, go on, give it a go
There was a lot of looking at maps and discussing... this way or that way... not knowing what was ahead, shall we stop here or move on? The whole experience was new to us, and a wonderful experience it was. The overriding factors were, fun, freedom and exploration, not deliberately treading in someone else's footprints and for me that is still a great motivation. Yes, it's nice to look at pics and think, one day, in the meantime... discover.We have abandoned the North.Itās 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. Itās a recipe for disaster.
I really wish we would stop putting names on driving routes, it tends to make people behave like sheep. Itās ironic when they head up there what do they complain about, to many people,
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 itās 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.
Skip the shower, so cold u won't need one for a week!The only trouble doing it in Winter Bill is its that far north by the time you get out of bed, have Brunch, have a shower and think about setting off somewhere it will be dark again!
I hope they don't start promoting the A66! Get your kicks on Route 66!!!!
Too darn cold up there beyond the pale, so cold you don't even need a shower, and anyway all yer pipes will be frozen solid. Head for Southern Spain instead.Typical sassenach, have a shower, then Brunch, then think about heading out
Itās get up at 7.30, out the door for 8.30, and back for 3.30 after a good day out.
As for brunch, itās in the Ruckie, and the shower can wait till the evening after High tea.
It's grim up north lad.
So try every part of The Wild Atlantic Way in Ireland.......I did fail to mention how tight and squeaky bum the roads are
Those fibreglass bodies are very pretty and are 100% leakproof. William Townes design perhaps? Anyway, always admire them no matter how old.Plenty of other places to park away from the "green" where I doubt anyone would bother you, and no signs anywhere saying otherwise
But we didn't actually overnight there, just parked for a while to take a look-see at the place.
I did take a couple of pics of an old VW Clubman parked up there out of interest.
Had obviously stood there a fair while, so must belong to a local.
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Brass monkey's conkers....
Folk in large hired MHs perhaps do not have the experience to navigate such roads.
Is it the case that so-called locals who despise us so much are in fact incomers, or English even.
And some of them have Mohos too Marie.I think you may well be right.
We were pounced on for no good reason by a snotty-nosed English woman when we stopped briefly (mere seconds) to consult an ordinance survey map before continuing our journey. She appeared as if by magic as soon as Iād put the hand brake on and it was obvious that sheād done it before. This was off the beaten track at the side of Loch Ness, we werenāt impeding any traffic, there was plenty of space all around, nowhere near any houses and we werenāt in anyoneās view line.
Thereās some very odd and socially dysfunctional folk inhabiting these āsepticā isles
People moving to idyllic places , be it Scotland or anywhere else , don't want visitors . Lots of jobs in these areas are in hospitality. The ones we are talking about don't give a shiny sheite about the rural economy.
