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Myself, @Wessa Steve and @Smilinjack Alan just got back from a six night tour of Scotland yesterday.
We met up at Ye Olde Naked Man Cafe in Settle, Yorkshire for bacon butties all round at 11:00am and set off for our first nights stop at the Limetree Restaurant & Hotel in Moffat. Avoiding motorways, the weather was pretty good, just a smattering of rain in the afternoon. We had so much time that we took in a detour via Russia.


On arrival at the hotel, we got a huge attic triple room and the breakfast the next morning was top notch. We even had a garage to park our bikes in overnight. Very good value at £105 all in.
Any pictures Steve and Alan ?

 

Day 2 following a good "Scottish" breakfast we set off for Corran, again avoiding motorways. At first we had glorious sunny weather but as the day progressed it got a bit cloudy and by the time we got to Corran it was a bit wet. We stopped off at Tyndrum for a bite to eat. We had planned to do the Kinlochleven loop but as it was getting quite wet by now we gave it a miss and soon arrived at the Corran Bunkhouse for the night.


This is a top bunkhouse and is better than a lot of hotels. It is very well equipped and has kitchens, a drying room and a comfortable lounge where we enjoyed several glasses of Jack Daniels and snacks.

 

Somebody has to do it.

 

Saucy Mary's Bunkhouse is the pits.
However, we did have the pleasure of meeting up with an old friend James @Sprinter . He joined us in the pub just down the road from the bunkhouse.

 

So on day 4 we set off for Beuly via Applecross. We took a slight detour to take in Plockton which is a very pretty little coastal village. Unfortunately James's bike developed an electrical gremlin and he decided to go home and try to get it sorted.

 

Day 5. After a lovely breakfast I took a stroll outside and went towards the war memorial which remembered soldiers who had died in various battles, I think in South Africa.


I was a bit miffed to discover that some scrote had ripped up all the flowers and bulbs in an adjacent flowerbed and strewn them all over the monument, pavement and the rear of someones car. They had also left a pair of blue trousers, hopefully they had soiled themselves.



This guy was not the culprit I am sure.


Maybe he saw who did it but he wasn't talking.

 

Day 5 progressed towards Braemar but on the way we met up with another old friend at the Bridge Cafe in Spean Bridge.



@Dougie D who had organised previous forum tours around Scotland in 2018 and 2019. Dougie kindly led us over some great roads to our hotel for the night in Braemar, the Braemar Lodge.