Western/Northern Scotland driving tour

[Lugy]

I'm looking to do a bit of a random drive holiday tour thing around the West/Northern coast of our lovely country.
My plan is to do it over a long weekend, probably Friday to Monday either at the end of August/early September when it's still nice enough to camp out. Doing it during a week would mean it'd probably be quieter.

The route I have in mind is head through to the West and on to the A83 towards Lochgilphead the up road to Oban, back onto the A82, over the Corran Ferry to Lochaline and onto Mull which would be an overnight stop most likely. There's a braw beach with white sand up that way.
The next part would be back to the mainland and off up to Skye via anywhere that looks fun on the map, could be an overnight stop here or maybe at Applecross which would be the next destination.
Afterwards it'd be onwards to Ullapool and round the "top" road towards John O'Groats which would probably be the last stop off point before going back onto the "big" boring roads and heading homewards.

Any takers?

[Lugy]

Some random pictures of the scenery along the route

[Turbodave]

Cash flow/commitments allowing then yes, I'd be up for this.

Camping?

[keithcdb]

Dont have a car worth a toss to do it in.....

[keithcdb]

Although I could MOT the bm.... Wonder if i could get the pass from her tho? More chance of me being allowed over a weekend so my mum could have abbie for a night or two so she can have a chance to go out......

[Lugy]

Cash flow/commitments allowing then yes, I'd be up for this.

Camping?

Yup, camping to save money, the fuel will be bad enough!

Although I could MOT the bm.... Wonder if i could get the pass from her tho? More chance of me being allowed over a weekend so my mum could have abbie for a night or two so she can have a chance to go out......

Do it!

[keithcdb]

Need dates that are set in stone! if we can agree on days i can start the begging process, bm could be MOT'd this month!

[scooby-KILLER]

Need dates that are set in stone! if we can agree on days i can start the begging process, bm could be MOT'd this month!

4.4V8 enjoy fueling it lol,

i would be interested in joining providing dates are set and money/holidays from work allow?

[keithcdb]

4.4V8 enjoy fueling it lol,

i would be interested in joining providing dates are set and money/holidays from work allow?

14MPG on a good day, the noise makes it good tho....

[Lugy]

How about the 9-11th of September? Plenty time to save up and I should have some nice extras on the E30 by then!

[scooby-KILLER]

How about the 9-11th of September? Plenty time to save up and I should have some nice extras on the E30 by then!

dates should be fine with me but will hold off putting in for the friday off untill every 1 else can make the dates?,

keithcdb 14mpg isnt all that bad lol but the noise.. worth every penny im guessing,

i will either be sailing the boat lol or failing that i will take the vxr

Lugy what extra's?? do tell!

[Turbodave]

Dont have a car worth a toss to do it in.....

Ha ha... so far the list consists of:

1. Lugy Pavos Brown armed with the worlds highest mileage ex taxi Vectra diesel with rear seats that smell of kebab... if you catch my drift

and...

2. Myself armed with something that escaped from Sweden years ago and has been rammed into everything ever since, and I'm not talking about Krstian Stroodle the porn star either.

Date wise, second weekend of September is doable I reckon... first weekend is Trax and the third is a Droop Snoot run around the Borders. The Cav Turbo boys were talking about a meet in Keilder at some stage too but I think that may loose mommentum and fall apart pretty soon given the distances involved.

Camping sounds like a plan, I fit in the back of the Volvo just fine...

[Lugy]

Just a set of 4 pot calipers and a set of coilovers (which could be fun on these roads lmao).

[Turbodave]

Hang on... you're NOt taking the Vectra. Baws... I best get on the phone to Enterprise then!

Which, on second thoughts is a nae bad idea... hire a Transit/Vivaro thing... add one mattress, one bucket to dump in, an electric cool box and rig up a shower system by extending the pipework for the windscreen washers.

Bish bash bosh... instant campervan.

[Lugy]

Not planning on taking it unless I decide I can't afford the fuel, which is entirely plausible!

Pah, who needs Winnebagos?

[scooby-KILLER]

Just a set of 4 pot calipers and a set of coilovers (which could be fun on these roads lmao).

sounds like a good recipe to me

[Steviegil]

I stay in Lochgilphead - so if your passing this way i'm game for coming certainly some of the way. I work on Mull alot(weekly nearly) and its some place for driving, also that bit of sand is called Calgary bay - which has camping toilets etc beside it The Bellachroy is a great place for food/few beers and its only 5-10 mins away from Calgary bay..

[Lugy]

I stay in Lochgilphead - so if your passing this way i'm game for coming certainly some of the way. I work on Mull alot(weekly nearly) and its some place for driving, also that bit of sand is called Calgary bay - which has camping toilets etc beside it The Bellachroy is a great place for food/few beers and its only 5-10 mins away from Calgary bay..

Ah, Calgary beach, I remember now!

I'll keep you posted on the plan for a route, I think it should stay the same as above (well until Applecross).

[GaryVaux]

i was about to put a similar post up, im off 2 weeks in august (12th onwards i think) and was thinking of taking a trip to john o groats as ive never been that far north before. Do it over 2 days and throw in a night out aswell.

Applecross is still on the to do list aswell

[Lugy]

I'm off this Thursday til Monday, I was thinking of doing a Vectra run somewhere but I may end up fitting my new diff/wheel to the Beemer and giving the Vectra some love for it's MOT.

[GaryVaux]

A few of us are heading to ayr for dells (of orange corsa b fame) for his birthday this sat, so i think its the latter option for you lmao

The lochgilphead-oban-mull-fort william stretch is nothing out of the ordinary for me, but the applecross and john o groats trip appeals!!

[Turbodave]

A few of us are heading to ayr for dells (of orange corsa b fame) for his birthday this sat, so i think its the latter option for you lmao

Woah haud the bus! Whty was this not announced on the 6 o'clock news this evening?