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Travel Blogs from Durness
Days 4 dunoon to gretna
Great night sleep at the b&b ferry grossing was great spirits high. Hard day ahead 40 miles in and it's lunch already the pace is slow the drivers found a pub in Blackwood and took over the kitchen Alan mad scrambled eggs for us all but we had a couple of pints to keep up moral. Great stop. Richard had chris's spare ...
Morning on day 2
Scratching from the Scottish insects. Midges attacked us at the start yesterday and towards the end and over some of the big climbed we had flys all over us. Aim to leave at 8 from bonar bridge towards Inverness then along loch ness (south side) towards first William that's the plan ...
Day 1
What a fantastic route John o groats west to tongue then south to bonar bridge 110 miles low in traffic but hilly. Fantastic weather to start 30 miles in hit by a thunder storm and took refuge in the most remote bus shelter in Britain back on the road met the boys in the van for lunch one hitchhiker later and rich realised he had left some kit at jog. Sorted and being ...
Wind night
After achieving our mission to get north we headed off west. We didn't have much on the agenda so we took it pretty slow. Our first stop was at Smoo Cave. Smoo Cave is a large sea cave which connects to several other underground caverns. The cave was fairly massive and a stream dropped into it which was pretty impressive but because of all the rain the water levels in the cave where too high for us to venture deeper. We returned out of the cave and to the coast for a look then ...
Ullapool to Poolewe
... br> As I got closer to Poolewe the rocks increased and it is very barren country, almost no soil.
Aultbea, where John Beattie was the innkeeper is a small port. I don’t know yet whether it was in his days. It has white painted, two storey dwellings sprinkled around the hillsides and lined up behind the beach. A mix of modern and old, a few very old, but they have had corrugated iron roofs added. In the sea air, these are ...