Highlands

[GetCarter]

dazren said:

GetCarter said:

I'd add Kylesku Hotel/Inn to that list. I regularly drive there for lunch (204 mile round trip).

http://www.kyleskuhotel.co.uk

Was there this week. Huge refurbishment done in the last few years. Excellent seafood. If making a lunch stop during the week, the kitchens close at 2:30.

Hi Daz. Long time no see. 8 years?

Edited by GetCarter on Saturday 9th April 18:33

[dazren]

Hi Steve. A few of us are still making the annual pilgrimmage.

I think the last time we met you by your village you were whizzing around in a rapid golf as a daily driver (does that help with the timeframe?). Think I was driving my M5 with the new uprated brakes which would make it 2007? Done a variety of Tartanhoon tour cars recently. E39 M5 broke down/Chevrolet Spark+ hire car (64bhp for 6 days!), 996 turbo, Panamera Diesel loan car and then the last two years I've brought the 991 GT3.

It's been rubbish every year.

Edited by dazren on Saturday 9th April 18:40

[GetCarter]

See you soon then!

Believe it or not Golf R32 was 8 years ago!

Doesn't time fly when you are flying along.

[dazren]

Just checked the old Eurohoon threads. It was 2007. Your golf was silver and we had a pint at the pub near the Torridon Hotel. It was the year Jeremyc had a yellow Gallardo.

Will give you a shout next year. It's funny as years have gone on we tend not to drive as the group. Or follow a predictable time frame. A lot more, ooh that bit was good and nothing has gone the other way in the last ten minutes, fire up the handbrake, about turn and do it all again!

[Red Devil]

Patrick Bateman said:

I read so much about the Bealach na Bá that I'd never even heard of the Bealach na Gaoithe.

That's probably because the road over the Pass of the Winds - https://goo.gl/maps/jMStCTkDdEw - only goes to Diabaig, so it won't be on many people's itineraries. As there is no onward connection from Lower Diabaig to Red Point and Badachro, it's not possible to do a loop round Alligin in the same way as the Applecross peninsula. It's easy to forget that the latter wasn't possible either until the 1970s. Shieldaig to Kenmore was constructed in 1970 but it took a further 5 years for the road to reach Applecross.

If you want to go 'off piste' though try Inverie. There are two ways to get there, but neither will be in your car.
On foot: the shortest route (a mere 16 miles) is from Kinlochhourn - http://www.thegatheringknoydart.co.uk/walking-in.h...
By boat: leave your chariot in Mallaig and take the ferry - https://goo.gl/maps/ua9nJ9gXvxm

[Patrick Bateman]

The restaurant at the end of the road is worth a visit so at least now there's something there.

[GetCarter]

You'll all know this bit of road

[Red Devil]

For the benefit of those (few) that don't.
https://goo.gl/maps/wMtcDLmRhB92
I'll be there next Sunday after lunch.
Heading in that direction too.

In your neck of the woods around 12.30

[stupidbutkeen]

Red Devil said:

For the benefit of those (few) that don't.
https://goo.gl/maps/wMtcDLmRhB92
I'll be there next Sunday after lunch.
Heading in that direction too.

In your neck of the woods around 12.30

sounds around the same time I will be there maybe come across you. I will be on a mt09 tracer

[Rod-m2g2i]

Great thread, and knocked up this route:

https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=zIQyjkUbZRq...

Comments / Suggestions?

[stupidbutkeen]

Rod-m2g2i said:

Great thread, and knocked up this route:

https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=zIQyjkUbZRq...

Comments / Suggestions?

I would give a lot of time for stopping when your up around skye and applecross area. Expect your arrival time at your b&b/hotel to be a good bit later than you had planned.

I am going to be based in a cottage just outside glencoe for 3 nights,But the more I look the more I think maybe even 1 more night woud be better.
I already have the wed booked of work to recover anyways so I could see me staying, Just to go round a few places I will pass and wish I had stopped on one of the days.

[Rod-m2g2i]

stupidbutkeen said:

I would give a lot of time for stopping when your up around skye and applecross area. Expect your arrival time at your b&b/hotel to be a good bit later than you had planned.

Good advice, last years trip we did 5 out of the 10 days as 7hr driving days, and it is a stretch, we'll sleep when we are dead

2015 covered this in 10 days

http://mardibloke.co.uk/adw/bert15actualrouteX.htm...

Last year we were surprised how much daylight into the evenings (compared to a 2014 Europe road trip), in effect giving us more driving time.

I'll rethink based on your comments though, if the weather is good, it is nice to stop and grab some photos - thanks

[GetCarter]

Rod-m2g2i said:

Great thread, and knocked up this route:

https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=zIQyjkUbZRq...

Comments / Suggestions?

The only real improvement I would suggest is that north of Ullapool, you head straight to Kylesku and then retrace your steps back. By doing that, you miss out on two fab roads (for scenery, rather than driving - see links to YouTubes below).

So as you head north from Ullapool on the A835, turn left at Drumrunie (signposted 'Road to the Summer Isles'), then once passed the hill known as Stac Pollaidh (pronounced polly), turn right via Inverkirkaig to Lochinver, thence to Kylesku.

Road to the Summer Isles, and the turn to the right towards Inverkirkaig (six weeks ago)>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vd6nL_6ll7A

By Inverkirkaig (last spring) >>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRsfrcPAJdQ

Edited by GetCarter on Wednesday 13th April 08:58

[Rod-m2g2i]

Thanks Steve - those views look stunning.

My reasoning was based on feedback from the 'group' last year was they found too much of that narrow stuff (especially when not good visibility ahead) a little challenging, when we are trying to cover so much distance.

Hence looking to the more open/sweeping roads with good forward view of road ahead.

Once we sort out accommodation, I'll see if time allows to make that bit of the route a loop.

[GetCarter]

Rod-m2g2i said:

Thanks Steve - those views look stunning.

My reasoning was based on feedback from the 'group' last year was they found too much of that narrow stuff (especially when not good visibility ahead) a little challenging, when we are trying to cover so much distance.

Hence looking to the more open/sweeping roads with good forward view of road ahead.

Once we sort out accommodation, I'll see if time allows to make that bit of the route a loop.

It'll certainly add an hour to the journey, and the roads are v. narrow in places.

[Rod-m2g2i]

GetCarter said:

It'll certainly add an hour to the journey, and the roads are v. narrow in places.

So no point taking a Vantage down there?

[Red Devil]

stupidbutkeen said:

Red Devil said:

For the benefit of those (few) that don't.
https://goo.gl/maps/wMtcDLmRhB92
I'll be there next Sunday after lunch.
Heading in that direction too.

In your neck of the woods around 12.30

sounds around the same time I will be there maybe come across you. I will be on a mt09 tracer

You'll know it if you do, as there will be another 15 cars in my posse.
Are you going to Applecross too?

GetCarter said:

So as you head north from Ullapool on the A835, turn left at Drumrunie (signposted 'Road to the Summer Isles'), then once passed the hill known as Stac Pollaidh (pronounced polly), turn right via Inverkirkaig to Lochinver, thence to Kylesku.

April 2015


Wall to wall sunshine for the whole 5 days.

[mikey k]

Rod-m2g2i said:

GetCarter said:

It'll certainly add an hour to the journey, and the roads are v. narrow in places.

So no point taking a Vantage down there?

I've had 2 vantages and a McLaren through there
Take your time and slow up for blind crests/bends and hollows

[stupidbutkeen]

red I wil be around applecross pass I think sunday or the monday around midday. Will deffo come and say helo if I see a group of 15 oddcars going steady enough that I wont really want to pass on the bike

[Red Devil]

stupidbutkeen said:

red I wil be around applecross pass I think sunday or the monday around midday. Will deffo come and say helo if I see a group of 15 oddcars going steady enough that I wont really want to pass on the bike

Only on Sunday. At midday Monday we will be elsewhere.
We're doing the Bealach the 'wrong' way round this year.
We're having lunch at the Applecross Inn and the pass afterwards.