Highlands

[Jambo85]

A702 - Dalveen Pass, doesn’t get much better than that

[legendracer]

Please suggest a round trip route from Milton Keynes to gairloch.
Stay will be at gairloch. 2 day trip. Saw some great pics in this thread, but I couldn't make a round trip plan due to the distances.
Thank you

Edit- toll free and fast roads please.

Edited by legendracer on Sunday 6th June 15:27

[leggly]

legendracer said:

Please suggest a round trip route from Milton Keynes to gairloch.
Stay will be at gairloch. 2 day trip. Saw some great pics in this thread, but I couldn't make a round trip plan due to the distances.
Thank you

Edit- toll free and fast roads please.

Edited by legendracer on Sunday 6th June 15:27

Good luck with fast roads up here. How do you feel about following poorly driven camper vans?

[Riley Blue]

legendracer said:

Please suggest a round trip route from Milton Keynes to gairloch.
Stay will be at gairloch. 2 day trip. Saw some great pics in this thread, but I couldn't make a round trip plan due to the distances.
Thank you

Edit- toll free and fast roads please.

Edited by legendracer on Sunday 6th June 15:27

How much more of your two days do you want to spend driving?
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/dir/Milton+Keynes/Ga...

[legendracer]

Riley Blue said:

How much more of your two days do you want to spend driving?
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/dir/Milton+Keynes/Ga...

I thought you would suggest different routes to go and come back. Like a circle.

[Riley Blue]

legendracer said:

Riley Blue said:

How much more of your two days do you want to spend driving?
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/dir/Milton+Keynes/Ga...

I thought you would suggest different routes to go and come back. Like a circle.

https://tinyurl.com/hbu6umk7

[legendracer]

Riley Blue said:

https://tinyurl.com/hbu6umk7

It's same that you shared as before. I'm planning to take A1 via Edinburgh and return via Glasgow A74, M6.
After Inverness I would touch Applecross, fort William, Oban.

[plenty]

Not sure if serious - but if you are, driving there and back from MK in two days is preposterous. If you're pushed for time, you can fly in late evening or early morning from Luton to Inverness and fly back late in the evening. Rent an MX-5 from Ecosse Sports Car Hire who will drop it off and pick it up for you from Inverness Airport.

[Jambo85]

legendracer said:

It's same that you shared as before.

fk me. Bet he’s glad he spent his time trying to help you!

[legendracer]

plenty said:

Not sure if serious - but if you are, driving there and back from MK in two days is preposterous. If you're pushed for time, you can fly in late evening or early morning from Luton to Inverness and fly back late in the evening. Rent an MX-5 from Ecosse Sports Car Hire who will drop it off and pick it up for you from Inverness Airport.

Actually I will be staying for 1 day at gairloch. But would be interested in spending time at the location rather than driving on that day too. Hence 2 days just for driving. 1 to go and another to come back.

[GetCarter]

plenty said:

Not sure if serious - but if you are, driving there and back from MK in two days is preposterous. If you're pushed for time, you can fly in late evening or early morning from Luton to Inverness and fly back late in the evening. Rent an MX-5 from Ecosse Sports Car Hire who will drop it off and pick it up for you from Inverness Airport.

This.

MK to Gairloch is +/- 11 hours (I regularly did Oxford to Shieldaig before I moved here). Fly!

[plenty]

legendracer said:

Hence 2 days just for driving. 1 to go and another to come back.

I see. Would you like the 11-hour route, the 18-hour route or the 24-hour route?

[Red Devil]

If I have read his most recent post correctly it's a 3 day trip. 1. Drive up. 2. Stay over. 3. Drive back.
The point of driving 1200+ miles, a considerable percentage of it on the most boring roads imaginable, for a one day sojourn in the Highlands escapes me.
Different strokes for different folks, I guess.

[Driveline Shunt]

Unless Scarlett Johansson is waiting for him dressed in a cheerleaders outfit & holding a bottle of Cardhu single malt then no, it doesn't make much sense. But hey, free country & all that!

[Riley Blue]

Red Devil said:

If I have read his most recent post correctly it's a 3 day trip. 1. Drive up. 2. Stay over. 3. Drive back.
The point of driving 1200+ miles, a considerable percentage of it on the most boring roads imaginable, for a one day sojourn in the Highlands escapes me.
Different strokes for different folks, I guess.

So it seems, it's going to be a tedious trip

[Blown2CV]

just got back from the 8 day trip to Skye and over to Lewis. Amazing as expected. Skye seemed quieter than i was expecting, but impossible to eat out anywhere. Even the local pub in Uig was booked up to end of June. This was fine though, we were expecting that part. Lewis was amazingly quiet, as we were hoping. I think we could have gone a full 4 days and not spoken to a single soul, which was heavenly. High teens on the weather which was a bit cooler than England but this was fairly welcome. Beaches empty. I don't think the midgies had fully hit by the time we'd left. Car didn't miss a beat and ran fine on 95RON which was also a bonus. Amazing trip yet again.

[Jambo85]

Riley Blue said:

So it seems, it's going to be a tedious trip

This may be more appropriate:

[Blown2CV]

how can anyone think 30+ hours in a car, or even 20+ hours in a car is going to be enjoyable? That's without any stops at all. I did 13 hours but there was a 1.5hr ferry and a couple of stops in there too, 500 miles of actual driving, and that was about the limit. That was after the 'sightseeing' part of the trip where we just needed to get home. Surely part of the point of a full road trip is that you stop fairly regularly and actually see things? To each their own and that, but I don't get it.

[aparna]

Great mapping skills but the image suffers from only having two stops on the right ball.

You really need more than one day break between the legs for them to feel like separate journeys. Otherwise it feels like one single 20 hour drive with stops. One night isn't enough to reset the driving clock.

If determined, try and sleep just before the fun stuff starts, not mid point. Then at least you can enjoy that bit.

[plenty]

Blown2CV said:

how can anyone think 30+ hours in a car, or even 20+ hours in a car is going to be enjoyable?.

It's not been thought through.

Blown2CV said:

Surely part of the point of a full road trip is that you stop fairly regularly and actually see things?

I do like to cover a lot of miles myself. I'll be in the Highlands this coming Friday through Sunday and I'll cover 873 miles which equates to about 8-9 hours' seat time each day. I'm there to drive, not to take pictures or go for walks. My sightseeing will be done from the driver's seat.