Featured Touring 1st Annual? Scotland Road Trip 13th-18th May 2018

Loch Fyne Whiskies still very much there.

 

did lochgilpead to dunoon to get the 9 0'clock ferry on my way to meeting up at with a motley bunch at Dumfries last year. saw about 5 cars in total, absolutely gorgeous! I still want to come!!

 

Everything fixed even things I didn’t know about and some I had forgotten about if I don’t break anything else between now and May I should make the trip

 

These posts are just all copied to the last page so you dont have to read through 10 pages to find the important stuff, Credit Doug, as we all know.


I've booked all the accommodation now,for the Thursday and Friday night I've only booked for 7 people as figwold will be away by then..Sunday,Monday & Tuesday nights we pay on arrival..Wednesday ,Thursday and Friday i had to pay up front,once I've got email confirmation i will PM everyone with amount I'm due.
Sunday Night..http://www.tyndrumbytheway.com/
Monday night...http://www.corranbunkhouse.co.uk/
Tuesday night...http://www.saucymarys.com/
Wednesday night...https://www.syha.org.uk/where-to-stay/highlands/ullapool.aspx
Thursday Night...https://www.syha.org.uk/where-to-stay/highlands/braemar.aspx
Friday Night, i was originally hoping to book 2 hotels for the trip, but i was struggling to get any that had rooms left,i got a bargain of this one in Drymen though £49.60 pp bed and breakfast..she had originally quoted me £35.00 pp but she phoned back and said she made a mistake as that was for march.she has reduced the price for May a fair bit as it should be £74.00 pp!!
http://www.winnockhotel.com/index.asp
i will put the daily routes up on the myroute-app site,i will also supply everyone with detailed route info when i meet you all in Tyndrum
EDIT... i got private rooms in all the hostels



Here's some camp sites for you and anyone else who fancies it
Sunday night..http://www.tyndrumbytheway.com/
Monday night...https://www.caravanclub.co.uk/club-sites/scotland/highlands/bunree-caravan-club-site/
Tuesday night...http://www.ashaig-campsite-skye.co.uk/index.shtml
Wednesday night...http://www.broomfieldhp.com/
Thursday night...http://www.braemarcaravanpark.co.uk/touring-camping?cid=167&pid=3435&utid=443
Friday night..https://drymencamping.wordpress.com/

 

These posts are just all copied to the last page so you dont have to read through 10 pages to find the important stuff, Credit Doug, as we all know.


Here are the Daily routes
Monday starting at Tyndrum (number1) and ending up at Corran (7) 191 miles


Tuesday starting at Corran (1) and ending up in Skye (7) 144 miles


Wednesday starting at Skye (1) and ending up in Ullapool (8) 158 miles


Thursday starting at Ullapool (1) and ending up at Braemar (8) 211 miles


Friday starting at Braemar (1) and ending up at Drymen (7) 151 miles

 

1. Dougie D
2. Andyc1
3. Rich Bryce
4.Ken Walburn
5. AndyPandy.
6.Dougsbike
7. figwold
8 lexy
9. Sprinter James booked 4 nights Sun to Wed inc

 

These posts are just all copied to the last page so you dont have to read through 10 pages to find the important stuff, Credit Doug, as we all know.


Thanks everyone for prompt payment Sunday, Monday & Tuesday you pay on arrival.
Sunday hostel is £20.00 pp
Monday hostel is £24.00 pp
Tuesday hostel they had a one 5 bed room with an en suite at £27.00 pp
and one triple room without an en suite at £22.50 pp..I'm thinking it would be fairer if we all just pay £25.31?

i thought this might be a good run on the Monday night when we are at Corran before we head out for something to eat ..a wee short 8 mile run up to Fort William then a 5 mile run on this road that takes you to the bottom of Ben Nevis.






On the Tuesday we should arrive on Skye in the afternoon so i thought if we wern't too late we could dump our baggage off at the bunkhouse and either have a run up to Portree and back (65 mile) or do the full loop (100 mile) or the 1/2 loop (80 miles)

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https://goo.gl/maps/iFEpwDVK43z

Just saying. We might have loads of spare time, you never know.
It's near Poolewe.

 

We could do Andy, I've never been there,I've got several stops in mind for each day,coffee,photos,lunch, but we should still have plenty of spare time
How was your hols? i hope you didn't get too much snow

 

Can I mention Mallaig, never been and we pass about 15 miles away at one point. Im not to bothered only it seems silly if you dont mention it.
Can we get Ice-cream?

 

Hols great ta, going home tomorrow. No snow really, just a little flurry. Thing is though, the day after we came up, all the roads got blocked.

 

Ha Ha great minds think alike,i was going to do that as we go onto the road to the isles anyway and like you say it's not far away,it would be a shame not to go to Mallaig it's a brilliant road

 

Ice cream ? Hell yeah !

 

how's the diet going @Sprinter ? you must be down to a medium now!!

 

Loch Ewe was a forming up point for convoys heading Transatlantic. There are also blockhouses on the other side of the Loch entrance at Mellon Charles which are slightly easier to get to but not that exciting unless you are a concrete connoisseur and know your baseplate diameters to site your QF 3.7” etc. It is still occasionally used for exercises. There is also a NATO refuelling point at the head of the Loch with a small jetty. I am not sure how much use it still sees having last been there in 1996

The Aultbea Hotel used to be lined with wartime photos of the comings and goings.

One for the odd names thread I had forgotten......’Bubbles’ - one of my colleagues who, fully equipped, missed the scrambling ladder on the ship.........we got him out but the name stuck!

 

Cheers.Ice-cream. Cheers

 

Small, medium, Large, medium large, extra large, Yep all on schedule,

 

i think you will have to be a bit more specific when you are ordering a t shirt for the GMU!!..I'm guessing a large now..you will have to give me some tips

 

No mate same as last year.

 

Some of you will have Hood jeans. Have you tried these people for larger sizes Dougie?
http://www.hoodsailmakersuk.com/

 

The wife and I cycled up to Cove a few years ago to the Russian convoy memorial (9 miles ) good wee road and worth it for the the outlook.