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I know from another thread Vid is doing the NC 500 soon so found this post I put on here 3 years ago just before we did it.
Selby White wrote:Just putting final plans together for a tour of Scotland me and my better half are doing soon. Its something we both fancied
doing, the top bit follows scenic highways and is Scotlands "route 66" and has its own website.
http://www.northcoast500.com/home.aspx
Its going to be hectic with 12 different stopovers in 13 nights, varying between hotel, B & B, Pub & cottage. We'll share the driving which basically means 90% me, lol.
Here is our planned route :-
Nights 1 & 2 - Edinburgh (going to picnic at Holy Island on route up, she wants to visit)
3 - Stirling
4. Aberdeen (meeting an old friend up for a meal)
5. Inverness
6. Wick
7. Strathy Inn(its right on the north coast).
8. Some cottage close to Ullapool.
9. Loch Carron
10. Drumnadochit (on Loch Ness)
11. Near Fort William
12. Crianlarich (north of Loch Lommond),stopping on route here for lunch at Oban sea food hut as recommended on here by NW.
13. Glasgow.
14. Home
Few points -
Inverness is a cracking city we both enjoyed it could have done with another night.
Really good French restaurant in Wick if you like that sort of thing.
Old Pultney distillery also in Wick (Johnh told me at the time), don't drink it myself bur Mrs liked it.
John O'Groats is obvious visit but further along the north coast two more points of interest, Dunnett Head which is actually the most northerly point on main land Britain. Strathy Point is where the Atlantic meets the north sea, we stayed at the Strathy Inn a little pub on the north coast run by a Yorkshire Man (good pub grub)
You wont be alone in a motorhome, lots of them.
Watch out for sheep
Some long distances between petrol stations, fill up when you can.
If you go to Applecross enjoy the drive its a cracker
Have a great trip.
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