NC500 - DAY 1
Jul 30–31, 2022 in England ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C
Travelling, travelling and more travelling. Home to Penrith.
We're breaking the journey up to (our) start of the NC500 by staying at a campsite at Penrith. Moods are high... And so is the chance ofRead more
NC500 - DAY 2
Jul 31–Aug 1, 2022 in England ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C
Another day on the road... Penrith to Loch Ness. After reading lots of people's blogs of the NC500 we decided to start ours there.
Penrith was WET, it rained all night and Oliver had forgotten to doRead more
NC500 - DAY 3
Aug 1–2, 2022 in Scotland ⋅ ⛅ 12 °C
Loch Ness to Dornoch.
Lovely weather, Loch Ness exhibition centre, fairy glen falls, me going the wrong way and us ending up on what felt like the smallest ferry in the world and awesome fish andRead more
NC500 - DAY 4
Aug 2–3, 2022 in Scotland ⋅ 🌬 16 °C
Busy day today. Dornoch to John o' Groats.
We had an awesome breakfast, a visit to the Whaligoe Steps where we met Dave who knew pretty much everything about them, we had lunch at Wick harbour,Read more
NC500 - DAY 5
Aug 3–4, 2022 in Scotland ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C
John o' Groats to Durness (Sango sands campsite)
The days are getting busier. A longer drive today, but beautiful.
We had breakfast at Thurso before visiting the beautiful Strathy Bay, then stoppedRead more
NC500 - DAY 6
Aug 4–5, 2022 in Scotland ⋅ ☁️ 11 °C
Durness to Lochinver (Shore campsite)
We had breakfast at the campsite before heading to Cocoa mountain ☕
We drove over Kylesku Bridge twice to get some good drone footage 🙂 and then headed toRead more
NC500 - DAY 7
August 5, 2022 in Scotland ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C
Lochinver to Ullapool (Ardmair Point campsite)
We visited the beach at the campsite this morning as the weather was nice and after the tailgate of the van had fallen on Andy's head we headed toRead more
NC500 - DAY 8
Aug 6–7, 2022 in Scotland ⋅ 🌬 13 °C
Ullapool to Gairloch (Gairloch Holiday Park)
We strategically packed up around the gale force winds and biblical rain and set off for breakfast in Ullapool. On our way to Gairloch we stopped at theRead more
NC500 - DAY 9
Aug 7–8, 2022 in Scotland ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C
Gairloch Holiday Park
We hit a bit of a wall with the weather this morning and so decided to stay in Gairloch for another night to dry some of our stuff and spend a day chilling a little in the hopeRead more
NC500 - DAY 10
Aug 8–9, 2022 in Scotland ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C
Gairloch to Applecross (Applecross campsite)
Back to our itinerary today. We started off with Andy running over Grace's shoes 😂 to go in search for breakfast and didn't find any. As part of ourRead more
NC500 - DAY 11
August 9, 2022 in Scotland ⋅ 🌬 17 °C
Applecross to Skye (Reraig Campsite)
A heavy day of driving today. We had breakfast at the campsite and headed out to drive over applecross pass... And we did the whole thing IN the clouds (whichRead more
NC500 - DAY 12
August 10, 2022 in Scotland ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C
Reraig to Fort William (Glen Nevis Campsite)
Bacon sammiches in the camper followed by packing up and heading to visit Eilean Donan castle, which was awesome 🏰
Travelled to glen Nevis CampsiteRead more
NC500 - DAY 13
August 11, 2022 in Scotland ⋅ ☀️ 17 °C
Fort William to York (Air BnB)
Packed up for the last time and headed for the cheapest breakfast in the world, readying ourselves for the looooong drive to York we stopped off at Glencoe to take inRead more
NC500 - DAY 14
Aug 12–13, 2022 in England ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
York - Home!
Last day and a visit to the Jorvik Viking Centre, which was awesome. York is beautiful and it was lovely to stay in a bed over night... despite the heat in the house we rented!
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