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Some of you may (or not) have noticed I have not been on these boards for two weeks, that is because I have been on holiday with the folks in Scotland.

We flew from a wet and dull Luton airport 15th June with EasyJet and arrived at a loverly sunny, dry Inverness airport where we hoped onto a mini bus that took us to Europcar car rental place. We hired a black 1.8 Vectra - what a beast We thought flying and then hiring a car was better and easier than driving up and wasting 4 days traveling (2 up and 2 back). After we sorted out the paperwork for the car we head of to our pre booked B&B in Ullapool.

Here we saw Ardvreck Castle



and we saw this gorge at the southend of Loch Broom





Boy, was it a long way down !!

We stayed here for 2 nights before moving down to the Kyle of Lochalsh.

On the way we stopped off at Inverewe Gardens





My dad and I took it in turns to drive each day and on this day driving from Ullapool to the Klye it was my turn. I have never driven on roads like it. They where brilliant. Fast and quiet. If only I was in a Scoob, but the Vectra coped very well under my control.

When we got to our next pre-booked B&B, we hated the place so much that we all unanimously left there and found this place back down the road.



The view from we got every morning







The proprietor, Norman was a real character and he reminded me of Doc Emmit Brown (Christopher Lloyd). We really like this B&B.

Here we went onto Skye and toured around for a day.

We then headed down to Fort William. Quite a contrast compared to Kyle and Ullapool. We had a really nice B&B where we stayed 5 nights.

We went to Mallaig on the steam train which was really nice and relaxing.

Heres a shot of the train that pulled us at Mallaig station.



We went to Grantown on Spey, Aviemore and Dalwhinnie Distillery and to Lock Garten to see the Ospreys.

The last day we went to Ardnamurchan peninsular, and I saw my first white tailed Sea Eagle and an Otter.

We then headed further south to Oban for 3 nights. Again much bigger and more touristy.





We went on the Caledonian Macbrayne ferry to the Isle Mull for the day. We had booked for a wildlife tour and we saw several Golden Eagles, a pair of Otters.

Then the last couple of nights we had in Edinburgh were the weather turned and was coldly, cold and wet. Considering we had 10 out of 14 days in t-shirts. I did not think that was bad...for Scotland.

Yesterday (thursday) we left a sunny/warm Edinburgh Airport and arrive at Luton airport in the rain. Whats changed.

I had a throughly nice holiday in Scotland. Not sure when I will be returning, But I would like to go back at some point in my life.

volcom

aaaah, lovely pics!

Makes me homesick when I see stuff like that!

Bet the vectra was a riot on the scottish twisties! You would have felt the g-force in the corners for sure!

I'll need to get me and my wee scoob up there for a few blasts this summer.

Wulsey

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What can i say

SCOTLAND "GODS COUNTRY"

See it dosent always rain up here!

Some nice pics mate!

jameswrx

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Nice pics, looked lovely.

I've had a couple of good trips up to Scotland (many years ago). A friends dad used to be a Ghilli up there, me and my mate got to fish some expensive parts. Also seen the ospreys fishing and golden eagles. Was fishing one night and had an otter pop it's head up almost between my legs (as I was sitting on a rock in the river) it was getting dark and it scared the crap out of me.. I actually jumped and as a pure reaction smacked it on the head with my fishing rod.

Oh and as for the raining thing.. when I was up there they'd had a really long drought, had been going on for a fair few weeks.. think it was circa 1993

slipstream_uk

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Some of you my know im from Fort William, it does rain a lot here but its been dry & sunny for the last 6 weeks now.
If you get the chance to visit the Fort again take a trip up to Glen Nevis, you wont regret it.

slipstream_uk

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forgot to say the pic of the train is the same one they use in harry potter

what would scooby do

Isn't scotland just gorgeous !! got many pictures of Fife, through Stirling and Fort William.

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We did take a tip do to Glen Nevis one evening after our meal. Brilliant road At the end of the road, there is a small waterfall which I had a place with on my camera and got this

slipstream_uk

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Ah thats from the road bridge. In the pic the footpath in the top right. Take a walk up that. Then you will see the beautiful scenery close up. That path is part of the Highland Way.

Side note, thats the road I use to set up my suspension, plenty of twists & turns. lol

SC008Y_MAD

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Thanks for the info.

I could not think of a better road

M444GY

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very nice pics mate

mr hat

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beautiful. iv lived in edinburgh all my life and these pics make me realise how much of scotland i havent seen, think i will have to take a trip up north in the scoob this summer and do some sight seeing and enjoy the roads and see what i have been missing.

euan_r

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nice pictures

dont live too far away from those areas. was up a spin in the scoob end of last year (ullapool, lochinver), great roads

youve been unlucky with the weather it has been really good last month or so just the last week been back to normal ie rain.

SC008Y_MAD

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We were lucky, very lucky.

TurboAndy

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Some awsome pics you have taken there m8