Best car for 2 mile track with 40% gradients, rocky surface?
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Tourism keeps many places going and is absolutely vital. We go to other UK/EU islands regularly and without tourists, well pubs, cafes, museums, ice cream vans and a whole host of other places would close forcing unemployment and poverty up. Many owners of such places have confirmed this to me.
The person i was talking about has a big house 200 metres from the road and in order to walk to a ruined building people park at the top of his driveway. There is public access along the drive, it appears, on foot only. They don't block it but he still gets irked by it and came rushing out in his pick up truck to shout and bawl.
People like him should remember when he goes for his groceries in his remote location that without tourists, that shop probably isn't even THERE.
The person i was talking about has a big house 200 metres from the road and in order to walk to a ruined building people park at the top of his driveway. There is public access along the drive, it appears, on foot only. They don't block it but he still gets irked by it and came rushing out in his pick up truck to shout and bawl.
People like him should remember when he goes for his groceries in his remote location that without tourists, that shop probably isn't even THERE.
Thanks. It was 7 years ago today when I picked up my Mercury Grand Marquis from a town near Inverness and then went on a little tour of the northern bank of Loch Ness out to Onich then down through Glen Coe.
It rained a lot and I'd never heard of midges nor did I see any whenever I stopped to have a look.
Anyhow me and my lad are very excited at the idea of going further North than either of us have ever been in the UK and might even try to get my little Duster up the OPs track, only joking.
Off to book the ferry from Mallaig. A darn site cheaper, by many factors, than the ludicrous Isle of Wight ferry (£260 vs £33).
Have to thank this thread for making me decide to go up and have a look at Skye.
It rained a lot and I'd never heard of midges nor did I see any whenever I stopped to have a look.
Anyhow me and my lad are very excited at the idea of going further North than either of us have ever been in the UK and might even try to get my little Duster up the OPs track, only joking.
Off to book the ferry from Mallaig. A darn site cheaper, by many factors, than the ludicrous Isle of Wight ferry (£260 vs £33).
Have to thank this thread for making me decide to go up and have a look at Skye.
MC Bodge said:
croyde said:
Anyhow me and my lad are very excited at the idea of going further North than either of us have ever been in the UK and might even try to get my little Duster up the OPs track, only joking.
Leaving only a tin of custard at his front door?
croyde said:
Thanks. It was 7 years ago today when I picked up my Mercury Grand Marquis from a town near Inverness and then went on a little tour of the northern bank of Loch Ness out to Onich then down through Glen Coe.
It rained a lot and I'd never heard of midges nor did I see any whenever I stopped to have a look.
Anyhow me and my lad are very excited at the idea of going further North than either of us have ever been in the UK and might even try to get my little Duster up the OPs track, only joking.
Off to book the ferry from Mallaig. A darn site cheaper, by many factors, than the ludicrous Isle of Wight ferry (£260 vs £33).
Have to thank this thread for making me decide to go up and have a look at Skye.
Why are you booking the ferry?It rained a lot and I'd never heard of midges nor did I see any whenever I stopped to have a look.
Anyhow me and my lad are very excited at the idea of going further North than either of us have ever been in the UK and might even try to get my little Duster up the OPs track, only joking.
Off to book the ferry from Mallaig. A darn site cheaper, by many factors, than the ludicrous Isle of Wight ferry (£260 vs £33).
Have to thank this thread for making me decide to go up and have a look at Skye.
J6542 said:
Why are you booking the ferry?
Just to add to the experience of going far. Has definitely turned into a road trip now. 2 days in the Lakes then a night near Fort William before a leisurely drive to Mallaig for the ferry to Skye.Just deciding on whether to take 2 or 3 days to get back to London. Will stop off in Liverpool to see daughter on way back but still surprised to see that according to Google that is a 7 hour drive from Skye, so maybe another stop on the way down to the Mersey.
croyde said:
J6542 said:
Why are you booking the ferry?
Just to add to the experience of going far. Has definitely turned into a road trip now. 2 days in the Lakes then a night near Fort William before a leisurely drive to Mallaig for the ferry to Skye.Just deciding on whether to take 2 or 3 days to get back to London. Will stop off in Liverpool to see daughter on way back but still surprised to see that according to Google that is a 7 hour drive from Skye, so maybe another stop on the way down to the Mersey.
J6542 said:
Why are you booking the ferry?
Covid and elderly ferries breaking down have led to capacity issues this year."“Ordinary passenger capacity on CalMac ferries is down to around 35% and it is currently nearly three weeks before a car can be booked on the Ullapool to Stornoway crossing, and a similar picture on other island routes."
https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/highland...
croyde said:
J6542 said:
Don’t stay in Fort William it’s a complete dump
Oh it's only near, can't remember the place at the mo, but it's tiny and right on a loch. Nice pub by the reviewers. We'll only be there after a long drive for a meal, drink and a bed. mike74 said:
Volvolover said:
Very true, but depending on how much the local economy/infrastructure relies on tourists money. (i have no idea about Skye but i have a holiday property elsewhere on an island in the UK and see the acceptance from locals that despite the fact tourists are not ideal on one sense, their money is vital in another )
Nope, you're making the mistake of believing the myth of the ''vital economic benefit of tourism'', put out there by the usual vested interests.The only locals who get any real economic benefit from tourism in areas blighted by tourists are the actual owners of tourism related businesses... the vast majority of all other locals in these areas very much suffer a negative socio-economic impact, not least of which is local house prices being inflated way beyond local wage levels due to holiday home/holiday let purchases.
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