NC500 Sept 2021

“ Road trip to the north of Scotland via Northumberland

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- Sep 19, 2021, 7:49am · ☁️ 13 °C Altitude: 70 m
  Scotland Dumfries and Galloway Eaglesfield 55.057751, -3.18619555°3’28” N 3°11’10” W
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Day 14 - Home from Lockerbie
September 19, 2021 in the United Kingdom ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C
Road trip - day 14 - Lockerbie to home. Early start after a great breakfast at Blacket House in Scotland. Left about 0830 and home in 6 hours at 1430 - should have been 5.5 hours but had to do some detour around traffic jams on the M40 and M25. After 2271 miles the car was very mucky so gave it a good wash and vac and is now looking much better (see the before and after pics). Weather was excellent north of Birmingham but cloudy further south.Read more
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- Sep 18, 2021, 5:57pm · 🌧 16 °C Altitude: 73 m
  Scotland Dumfries and Galloway Eaglesfield 55.057915, -3.1864355°3’28” N 3°11’11” W
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Day 13 - Part 2 - Blacket House
September 18, 2021 in the United Kingdom ⋅ 🌧 16 °C
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- Sep 18, 2021, 9:40am · ⛅ 14 °C Altitude: 70 m
  Scotland Dumfries and Galloway Eaglesfield 55.057759, -3.18618655°3’28” N 3°11’10” W
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Day 13 - Part 1 - To Lockerbie
September 18, 2021 in the United Kingdom ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C
Road trip - day 13 - Skye to Lockerbie. Set of soon after 0840 as it was a long drive (turned out to be even longer - see below). All was going well until we reached FortWilliam and discovered the A82 was closed due to an accident just South of Glencoe. This caused 2 problems (1) we couldn’t visit the Glen Etive valley which featured in James Bond’s “Skyfall” and (2) we had to do a big detour adding 30 miles and an extra hour on the trip. Apart from that the trip was fine and we arrived at Lockerbie at 1600 and visited the plane crash memorial. We then checked into our fabulous B&B. Footnote: when I did the NC500 in May 2018 the A82 was also shut and I had to do a detour. So I’ve only ever driven the A82 twice and both times I couldn’t drive all of it!Read more
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- Sep 17, 2021, 1:16pm · 🌧 15 °C Altitude: 4 m
  Scotland Highland Carbost 57.302392, -6.35508357°18’9” N 6°21’18” W
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Day 12 - Part 2
September 17, 2021 in the United Kingdom ⋅ 🌧 15 °C
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- Sep 17, 2021, 10:51am · ☁️ 13 °C Altitude: 422 m
  Scotland Highland The Storr 57.50753, -6.17346757°30’27” N 6°10’24” W
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Day 12 - Part 1 - Skye
September 17, 2021 in the United Kingdom ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C
Road trip - day 12 - rather wet day but not a total washout. We managed a walk up to the very misty “Old Man of Storr” rocks in the morning. After that we visited the Talisker distillery to buy some and then had lunch nearby. We then drove back via Dunvegan and had a wander around Portree harbour then bought some local gin.Read more
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Well done brave warriors! I would have baled……
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- Sep 16, 2021, 11:19pm · 🌧 15 °C Altitude: 23 m
  Scotland Highland Portree 57.412984, -6.19403857°24’47” N 6°11’39” W
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Day 11 - Part 4
September 16, 2021 in the United Kingdom ⋅ 🌧 15 °C
Lovely meal in the Michelin restaurant “Loch Bay” on Skye
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- Sep 16, 2021, 3:36pm · ☁️ 17 °C Altitude: 18 m
  Scotland Highland Kyle of Lochalsh 57.28067, -5.7040857°16’50” N 5°42’15” W
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Day 11 - Part 3
September 16, 2021 in the United Kingdom ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C
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- Sep 16, 2021, 1:59pm · ⛅ 18 °C Altitude: 7 m
  Scotland Highland Totaig Eilean Donan 57.27372, -5.51337557°16’25” N 5°30’48” W
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Day 11 - Part 2 - Eilean Donan
September 16, 2021 in the United Kingdom ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C
The Castle
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- Sep 16, 2021, 8:39am · ⛅ 11 °C Altitude: 20 m
  Scotland Highland Portree 57.412987, -6.19368257°24’47” N 6°11’37” W
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Day 11 - Part 1 - Achnasheen to Skye
September 16, 2021 in the United Kingdom ⋅ ⛅ 11 °C
Road trip day 11 - NC500 stage 5 - from Achnasheen to Applecross in the morning through some spectacular scenery. Next came the Bealach na Ba pass which was spectacular and actually not too busy. The afternoon was a visit to the Castle Eilean Donan which was superb. Finished the afternoon with a drive to the hotel at Portree on the Isle of Skye. Weather was generally fine with quite a few sunny periods and no rain 😀Read more
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- Sep 15, 2021, 6:13pm · ☁️ 15 °C Altitude: 176 m
  Scotland Highland Achnasheen 57.574179, -5.08157557°34’27” N 5°4’54” W
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Day 10 - Part 2
September 15, 2021 in the United Kingdom ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C
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