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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: Yesterday at 22:45:58 »Altnaharra and straight up to the Kyle of Tongue should avoid the worst of the west coast traffic No shortage of guest houses and camp sites around that end of the world and Orkney is well worth a few days of your time whilst there.I purposely wanted to avoid the 500, though any route covering that area is obviously going to follow bits of it.I have actually been entertaining the thought of a Motorhome recently.Well, err, I was toying with hiring one next year and doing a 2 week tour around the top of Scotland.
I really am getting old !
I'm pretty certain camper vans ain't for me, so I suppose if I tried one for a holiday I'd know either way.
Let's guess, going to do the fabled "500" with all the other wannabe Rob Roys, and try a bit of Haggis and have a wee dram..
It isn't for you TB, trust me, all the tinkers bumbling along at 50mph, stopping without indication, O and you wait till they see anything bigger than a fly coming towards them.
Ironically, when I was up in the highlands last month, getting about was easy and fairly quick, despite a lack of roads. Everyone drove at the speed limit, or pulled over after a mile or 2, bar the odd camper van. That ease of getting about, added to the fact the scenery is breathtaking, is why I half considered a passion wagon for a trip up there again. The area is too vast to have a single base to do day visits out.
The alternative would be being organised to have hotels booked and a strict itinerary, but that's not how we holiday.
Oh, yes, if you want driving roads the inland bits of Sutherland are fantastic. The coast roads making up most of the NC500 are single track with passing places im many areas, full of pikeys and delivery lorries and aren't much fun, although the views are fantastic.
