On to Tebay for excellent breakfast before M6/M5/M40 slog…
Revisited after about 15 years, still just as good, hope you remember it girls close to the ice climbing wall… This time paid by small premium bond win, but nothing left over Lobster, crab, mussels, clams, razor clams, oysters, scallops The holiday is complete We cut across to Inverness completing the NC500, then down the …
Today we travelled south from Ullapool to Kinlochewe via the coastal route. An alternating mixture of squally showers and sunshine, hence the photos Refreshed a lot of “O” level geography about glacial valleys moraines and erratics. Amazing to see grooves excoriated from the granite but the glacial passage
Took the “scenic” aka passing place heaven, route to Ullapool along the coast and back routes Oops forgot to take a before picture… remnants of langoustines and crab claws , delicious. At the Seafood Shack in Ullapool, highly recommended Arrived just as the rain started
Ying finally found her seafood…. lobster at Delilahs in Lochinver Then an afternoon walking 5 miles up a gorgeous salmon river to the falls. A couple of fly fishers came out to demonstrate their casting as we drove past (slowly and enviously)
This time at Achmelvich just next to the campsite (100m) but shrouded in mist. Signal poor so one pic only today but extraordinary scenery on the way down And now some extraordinary scenery… The road from Durness fell into broadly three phases… The first section from Durness was a boggy wilderness along single track/passing place …
And after a lovely seafood linguine at The Craggan Hotel a fantastic sunset, oddly with rainbow opposite!
Crossing the northern moorland past Doonreay and beyond really started to feel like an adventure with Ben Loyal and Ben Hope looming darkly in the background. Although the moorland might look like many others the presence of peat bogs and lochs transformed the appearance to something different At Farr we stopped for a very decent …
The day started well with breaks in the cloud and good visibility across the bay. Skeins of geese trailed across the sky commuting to ?Canada We stopped at the Castle of Mey (holiday castle of Queen Mother) and visited the walled gardens NB interrupted blog as ran out of data allowance for 24hrs (blasted 24Mb …