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GetCarter said:
Are you still up here? If so there is a killer pot hole about 200 yards before you reach Shieldaig (from the Torridon direction). Keep your eyes peeled. It's taken out two cars this week so far.
We're heading out to Achnasheen and Eilean Donan today, good heads up! Thank you.Whoops, seems Visit Scotland have finally fessed up the picture they use to advertise the NC500 isn't actually of the route at all:
https://www.scotsman.com/news/odd/north-coast-500-...
GetCarter, isn't this one of your photos they bought despite you telling them it isn't part of the route?
https://www.scotsman.com/news/odd/north-coast-500-...
GetCarter, isn't this one of your photos they bought despite you telling them it isn't part of the route?
Edited by AndrewEH1 on Wednesday 9th May 12:13
AndrewEH1 said:
Whoops, seems Visit Scotland has finally fessed up the picture they use to advertise the NC500 it's actually of the route at all:
https://www.scotsman.com/news/odd/north-coast-500-...
GetCarter, isn't this one of your photos they bought despite you telling them it isn't part of the route?
Yep, this one is mine, and yep, I told them several times that it wasn't on the route, but they said it wouldn't matter as it was a 'generic' pic.https://www.scotsman.com/news/odd/north-coast-500-...
GetCarter, isn't this one of your photos they bought despite you telling them it isn't part of the route?
I wasn't going to argue as they were paying!
Edited by GetCarter on Wednesday 9th May 11:42
GetCarter said:
Are you still up here? If so there is a killer pot hole about 200 yards before you reach Shieldaig (from the Torridon direction). Keep your eyes peeled. It's taken out two cars this week so far.
I hit a corker last week on the A82 along the side of Loch Lochy, couple of miles or so north of Spean Bridge, £200 wheel repair 
..and I also forgot to repack my locking wheel nut key 
Condition of the roads up there at the moment is pretty bad, much worse than last Autumn, guess the harsh winter is to blame. Road repair authorities do need to be more diligent though.
Edited by briang9 on Wednesday 9th May 22:59
GetCarter said:
Are you still up here? If so there is a killer pot hole about 200 yards before you reach Shieldaig (from the Torridon direction). Keep your eyes peeled. It's taken out two cars this week so far.
Dodged that one. Caught a few others though. Its pretty bad up there, even on some of the trunk routes.Fortunately no damage, though at some point it did rattle the front badge off
PS, a lot of new build taking place round your way!
Flying into Inverness tomorrow to pick up 5 budget rentals plan is as follows
Heading south to Fort William then acorss to Kyle of Loclash and Applecross
Saturday will be a long day heading all the way to Durness with lunch in Ullapool
Sunday back down through Lairg past Inverness into the Cairghorns before a late flight home.
Saturday looks to be the best day weather wise but traction in a VW Up/fiat 500 is rarely an issue
Heading south to Fort William then acorss to Kyle of Loclash and Applecross
Saturday will be a long day heading all the way to Durness with lunch in Ullapool
Sunday back down through Lairg past Inverness into the Cairghorns before a late flight home.
Saturday looks to be the best day weather wise but traction in a VW Up/fiat 500 is rarely an issue
Bernie_78 said:
Saturday will be a long day heading all the way to Durness with lunch in Ullapool
Not such a long day as you may think. I did 100+ miles this morning in 2 hrs much of which was on that route. Really depends when you drive. I hardly saw a car first thing, but the later you drive the more you'll get held up.Have fun.
Kylesku yesterday: Two blats turned up. 200BHP.com and a bunch of fezzas and porkers.
Edited by GetCarter on Thursday 17th May 19:09
Patrick Bateman said:
The owner of Ghille Brigdhe in Diabaig has posted on his Facebook page that's there's a wildfire on the go due to a couple of idiot tourists.
How thick do you have to be.
Yep. We can see the smoke from here. The last one took 4 days to put out!How thick do you have to be.
Not my pic... 30 mins ago
Last time:
Edited by GetCarter on Sunday 27th May 13:13
tshttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-is...
3 on the go in the highlands at the moment. We drove past the one on Skye this morning.
3 on the go in the highlands at the moment. We drove past the one on Skye this morning.
Slightly off topic, but we were horrified by the amount of litter we spotted when we stopped, looks like folks actually walk past the bin to dump stuff over the fence, one layby we stopped at, it looked like somone had dumped the whole week's empty wine and beer bottles down the edge...shocking
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