Skye

Just returned from Skye. Flip me, what a nice place! Lovely roads, hardly
any traffic, long sweeping bends and short twisty sections separated by
straights long enough to nip past any slower vehicles, wonderful scenery...
pity I had to take the car and couldn't do it on two wheels!

 

Nice indeed. Only this evening we were discussing perhaps hitting the
west coast generally some time next year - pre- or post-midges.

 

What have you got against SeanH?

 

You made me check my post you bastard.

 

We went to Mull this summer. Fantastic place as well. The roads are a
bit crap though. There are only two bits of non "single lane with
passing places" on the whole island [1].

I've never seen such clear sea water, you could pick the crab you
wanted to catch in 20 foot of water. Golden eagles, ospreys, otters,
red deer and more buzzards than you could shake a stick at.

 

Definitily better on two wheels - The Road To The Isles is pretty fun
too. And Glen Coe, Ness, I could go on...

 

Stop it, I'm getting a stiffy.

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Think Slough, Luton, Swindon
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APPLECROSS

 

I always suspected you were insane.

Well I suppose France isn't /that/ far away. Swindon would be a lot
better if they'd build a motorway to the south coast.

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Thanks, that's done the trick.

Never heard of it, but it sounds northern, so fair enough.

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Yebbut didn't you move to Newport then Leeds after Swindon? In which
case yes, I can see how you'd have fond memories of the place I'm glad
I no longer have to call home.

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further north than Glencoe

A rather splendid mainland peninsula with superb views across to Skye and a
spiffing mountain pass, Bealach na Ba
http://www.xs4all.nl/~josvg/scot/dundee04/pict/108-17a.jpg

 

That does look quite spiffing. I keep thinking I must do the Scotland
thing one day, but then I remember the south of France is closer & has
guaranteed weather, & come to my senses.

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I went there for the weekend that included the summer equinox in the
early 90s (before they built the bridge), and I concur - a magical
place.

Did you go to the Armadale Castle in the north? They had a fantastic
exhibition about St Kilda when I was there, with a whole bunch of
photos from the 1930s, just before the islands were evacuated.

 

<sucks teeth>

Well, yeah, but there is something about Scotland which really is
wonderful, and can't just be reduced to an assessment of the weather.
Put it this way - even in shit weather the highlands look
breathtaking.

I must get up there on a bike again myself.

 

Up and over the Pass Of The Cattle. Long comfy beach for a tent (with
a free water tap, ffs) and a pub that never shuts. And the view up
the loch as dawn breaks ... man, you've not lived.

 

Stop whinging. The A34 is only 20 miles away.

 

I meant specifically the Scotland /bike/ thing. I've been there a
couple of times as a car-mounted tourist, & agree it's pretty stunning.
However it also rained virtually constantly for two weeks solid the
last time, so too much of a risk for a scratching holiday (unless it's
midge bites you want to scratch).


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Which is why we'll wait until the forecast is for a few days of
sunshine and then head straight off. We can be in Tarbet by lunchtime.

 

I'd be more likely to do it if I lived closer, but as it is, the rather
fantastic roads around Clermont-Ferrand or the Black Forest are about
the same distance from here. I could probably even get to the foothills
of the Pyrenees in the same time it would take me to get to Tarbet.

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