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Peanut Gallery said:
Some good roads covered in the channel 4 great car journeys, Inverness to Skye.
Just wanted to ask what the reg of the Morgan was? From the front, VX17XCN, from the back VK17XCN...
Yep it was. Odd. My best guess they were false plates for the prog (real owner didn't want his plates used) and the crew were playing a prank (they do it a lot)Just wanted to ask what the reg of the Morgan was? From the front, VX17XCN, from the back VK17XCN...
Out of interest our local hotel hires a Morgan on a daily rate, incase you fancy.
https://www.thetorridon.com/experiences/morgan-car...
Edited by GetCarter on Thursday 11th July 08:54
I’m hoping to get back up in a 6 weeks time. Desperate for some greenery and less people !
On another note, It’s incredible how many serious accidents / deaths bbc Scotland are reporting on the road in the highlands but what I can’t work out is how many of them are tourists perhaps driving on the wrong side of the road ?
On another note, It’s incredible how many serious accidents / deaths bbc Scotland are reporting on the road in the highlands but what I can’t work out is how many of them are tourists perhaps driving on the wrong side of the road ?
f1ten said:
I’m hoping to get back up in a 6 weeks time. Desperate for some greenery and less people !
On another note, It’s incredible how many serious accidents / deaths bbc Scotland are reporting on the road in the highlands but what I can’t work out is how many of them are tourists perhaps driving on the wrong side of the road ?
Unless I'm missing some info there have been no road deaths in the Highlands for the past 3 years? (I can only see to Sept 2018 - the last one I knew of, I knew).On another note, It’s incredible how many serious accidents / deaths bbc Scotland are reporting on the road in the highlands but what I can’t work out is how many of them are tourists perhaps driving on the wrong side of the road ?
Can't comment on the rest of Scotland.
Having said that, driving standards are terrible Easter to end of summer. Not so much wrong side of the road (though I see that occasionally). Mostly motorhomes who can't reverse, boy racers who drive in packs way, way too fast for the conditions, and cyclists that do similar on hills with surfaces that will defeat most racing tyres (one taken away by ambulance last week about 400 yards from my house).
Next fatality soon, without doubt.
Main other problem is this... which we see all the time during the tourist season now... since NC500. Just chucked out on the side of the road. This pic taken this morning:
We spend an hour or so each weekend picking it all up.
GetCarter said:
Unless I'm missing some info there have been no road deaths in the Highlands for the past 3 years? (I can only see to Sept 2018 - the last one I knew of, I knew).
Can't comment on the rest of Scotland.
Having said that, driving standards are terrible Easter to end of summer. Not so much wrong side of the road (though I see that occasionally). Mostly motorhomes who can't reverse, boy racers who drive in packs way, way too fast for the conditions, and cyclists that do similar on hills with surfaces that will defeat most racing tyres (one taken away by ambulance last week about 400 yards from my house).
Next fatality soon, without doubt.
Main other problem is this... which we see all the time during the tourist season now... since NC500. Just chucked out on the side of the road. This pic taken this morning:
We spend an hour or so each weekend picking it all up.
Biker killed recently.....near Lairg riding as part of a group, so guessing tourist related : https://www.northern-times.co.uk/news/motorcyclist...Can't comment on the rest of Scotland.
Having said that, driving standards are terrible Easter to end of summer. Not so much wrong side of the road (though I see that occasionally). Mostly motorhomes who can't reverse, boy racers who drive in packs way, way too fast for the conditions, and cyclists that do similar on hills with surfaces that will defeat most racing tyres (one taken away by ambulance last week about 400 yards from my house).
Next fatality soon, without doubt.
Main other problem is this... which we see all the time during the tourist season now... since NC500. Just chucked out on the side of the road. This pic taken this morning:
We spend an hour or so each weekend picking it all up.
Biggest issue, in my opinion, has always been foreign drivers driving on the wrong side of the road on single track. So meeting on a corner auto pilot kicks in and they veer towards you rather than away. Plenty of nasty bumps as a result.
Littering is a nightmare....scumbags, just stay the f
k away if that's your mindset.Though not really in the Highlands, the A96 has seen a number of crashes that to my very un-trained eye look like a foreign person driving on the wrong side of the road. (Near Elgin recently, and another in the Montrose area)
Really sad to see the litter, I saw lots of it way off the NC500 up at Sandwood bay - where you have to park and then walk in.
Really sad to see the litter, I saw lots of it way off the NC500 up at Sandwood bay - where you have to park and then walk in.
In case anyone missed.. a few highlights from the dash cam from last summer (Could have been 20 times as long!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaJmF97Leo8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaJmF97Leo8
I have walked to many pretty remote Highland lochs to fish , and ,especially south of Kylesku (still a long way north ) it was depressingly predictable that , miles from anywhere , you'd find the remains of a camp fire, and a bloody great pile of beer tins or cans. Locals would blame those bds from Glasgow -other prejudices are available . But it sure wasn't us - we only left foot prints .
Up in NW Sutherland . especially on the hill lochs around Cape Wrath , we never saw litter . Just ..err..the odd piece of military ordnance ...
ds from Glasgow -other prejudices are available . But it sure wasn't us - we only left foot prints . Up in NW Sutherland . especially on the hill lochs around Cape Wrath , we never saw litter . Just ..err..the odd piece of military ordnance ...
GetCarter said:
In case anyone missed.. a few highlights from the dash cam from last summer (Could have been 20 times as long!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaJmF97Leo8
That last bit, passing 29 passing places at 30mph - I would have 'suggested' they move in, advanced driving and patience be damned.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaJmF97Leo8
towser said:
GetCarter said:
Unless I'm missing some info there have been no road deaths in the Highlands for the past 3 years? (I can only see to Sept 2018 - the last one I knew of, I knew).
Can't comment on the rest of Scotland.
Having said that, driving standards are terrible Easter to end of summer. Not so much wrong side of the road (though I see that occasionally). Mostly motorhomes who can't reverse, boy racers who drive in packs way, way too fast for the conditions, and cyclists that do similar on hills with surfaces that will defeat most racing tyres (one taken away by ambulance last week about 400 yards from my house).
Next fatality soon, without doubt.
Main other problem is this... which we see all the time during the tourist season now... since NC500. Just chucked out on the side of the road. This pic taken this morning:
We spend an hour or so each weekend picking it all up.
Biker killed recently.....near Lairg riding as part of a group, so guessing tourist related : https://www.northern-times.co.uk/news/motorcyclist...Can't comment on the rest of Scotland.
Having said that, driving standards are terrible Easter to end of summer. Not so much wrong side of the road (though I see that occasionally). Mostly motorhomes who can't reverse, boy racers who drive in packs way, way too fast for the conditions, and cyclists that do similar on hills with surfaces that will defeat most racing tyres (one taken away by ambulance last week about 400 yards from my house).
Next fatality soon, without doubt.
Main other problem is this... which we see all the time during the tourist season now... since NC500. Just chucked out on the side of the road. This pic taken this morning:
We spend an hour or so each weekend picking it all up.
Biggest issue, in my opinion, has always been foreign drivers driving on the wrong side of the road on single track. So meeting on a corner auto pilot kicks in and they veer towards you rather than away. Plenty of nasty bumps as a result.
Littering is a nightmare....scumbags, just stay the f
k away if that's your mindset.
GetCarter said:
In case anyone missed.. a few highlights from the dash cam from last summer (Could have been 20 times as long!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaJmF97Leo8
i don't know how you do it - i have just spent a week west of Fort William/Mallaig areahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaJmF97Leo8
bloody hell driving is just nuts. every other car is on hire, it signals left and turns right ok expect that, but the speed some drive at, with no consideration for anything else, is just so slow, they just stop because that bloody potter train is coming, they won't pull over, the car behind gets sucked in so they just sit there mesmerized making it a two car overtake or even longer with no gaps to pull in
we let a delivery driver on skye go as he was clearly in need of getting somewhere and he just had to push in as no one would leave gap
bloody camper vans, take three/four spaces in the car park, they cannot maneuver the things, they don't know the width and get stuck in narrow street not designed for them
single track road to the lighthouse - at the edge of GB has clear signs telling people pull over and let faster traffic past, no doesn't apply to them, they just keep going and then get all flustered further down the road when they realize they perhaps should have pulled in
belligerent cows
crossing rannoch moor - i don't understand how you can sit up the arse of a camper van or caravan at 30 mph when you've been making steady progress up to it and the road is arrow straight and clear for at least a mile
wa16 said:
GetCarter said:
In case anyone missed.. a few highlights from the dash cam from last summer (Could have been 20 times as long!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaJmF97Leo8
i don't know how you do it - i have just spent a week west of Fort William/Mallaig areahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaJmF97Leo8
bloody hell driving is just nuts. every other car is on hire, it signals left and turns right ok expect that, but the speed some drive at, with no consideration for anything else, is just so slow, they just stop because that bloody potter train is coming, they won't pull over, the car behind gets sucked in so they just sit there mesmerized making it a two car overtake or even longer with no gaps to pull in
we let a delivery driver on skye go as he was clearly in need of getting somewhere and he just had to push in as no one would leave gap
bloody camper vans, take three/four spaces in the car park, they cannot maneuver the things, they don't know the width and get stuck in narrow street not designed for them
single track road to the lighthouse - at the edge of GB has clear signs telling people pull over and let faster traffic past, no doesn't apply to them, they just keep going and then get all flustered further down the road when they realize they perhaps should have pulled in
belligerent cows
crossing rannoch moor - i don't understand how you can sit up the arse of a camper van or caravan at 30 mph when you've been making steady progress up to it and the road is arrow straight and clear for at least a mile
Been driving up here many times over the years, love the place for its people and roads.
Latest was last week, never been in August before, stopped for fuel in Kinlochewe and couldn't get back in the car quick enough. Got eaten alive by the dreaded midges, had heard they were bad but now I know, no wonder a chap working there was kitted out in netting. Bought a bottle of Smidge on the spot but the damage had been done in seconds. Never again in August but didn't spoil our 5 day road trip, see you again soon Scottish Highlands. . Where are we?
Latest was last week, never been in August before, stopped for fuel in Kinlochewe and couldn't get back in the car quick enough. Got eaten alive by the dreaded midges, had heard they were bad but now I know, no wonder a chap working there was kitted out in netting. Bought a bottle of Smidge on the spot but the damage had been done in seconds. Never again in August but didn't spoil our 5 day road trip, see you again soon Scottish Highlands. . Where are we?
Peanut Gallery said:
GetCarter said:
Next month, for 6 months, we have no traffic, no motorhomes, no motorbikes and no PH blats. Thank God.
May I apologise, I will be blatting the area in November ish, I hope! (just me, and as I have been visiting for the last 10 years am I assumed local enough?)
https://www.northern-times.co.uk/news/police-stop-...
Frankly, this summer has been f
king awful with idiots either doing 20mph and holding up all and sundry or just blootering around at stupid speeds as if it’s some kind of private race track. Local patience is at a low ebb :-(towser said:
Peanut Gallery said:
GetCarter said:
Next month, for 6 months, we have no traffic, no motorhomes, no motorbikes and no PH blats. Thank God.
May I apologise, I will be blatting the area in November ish, I hope! (just me, and as I have been visiting for the last 10 years am I assumed local enough?)
https://www.northern-times.co.uk/news/police-stop-...
Frankly, this summer has been f
king awful with idiots either doing 20mph and holding up all and sundry or just blootering around at stupid speeds as if it’s some kind of private race track. Local patience is at a low ebb :-(Gassing Station | Roads | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff