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« Reply #45 on: October 25, 2015, 08:52:44 AM » |
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Was that cow in a field next to a cafe and largish car park ?
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« Reply #46 on: October 25, 2015, 10:32:09 AM » |
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Andy, you're the second one to say I should've dropped in! (Iceman lives in Lochabar).
Kev, the Highland Coo was at the side of the old Military road that runs down the East side of Loch Ness, (little windy B road that passes through several tiny villages on the way back down to Fort Augustus).
Yeah, had a great time. Felt like a proper holiday even though it was only 3 or 4 days. Glad I went. I deliberately didn't take a camera cos I wanted to just enjoy it, rather than seeing it all through a camera lens. Just took a few snaps on my phone.
One tank of fuel in my little diesel Fiesta got me all the way there, (550 miles), & the same back again, so about 45 quid each way, plus about 400 miles of touring about while I was there. I splashed out on a decent hotel, but even with a pub meal each evening, I did the lot for a weeks wages. There were definitely more tourists about than on previous visits but the place is big enough to find some space to yourself with no trouble at all. Thoroughly recommended.
-Manky mcMonkey.
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« Reply #47 on: October 25, 2015, 11:07:17 AM » |
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glad you had a great relaxing time.
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« Reply #48 on: October 25, 2015, 01:56:59 PM » |
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Good time of year when most of the holidaymakers have gone, we had one night in Beer in Devon and it was lovely, not many people about except the ones that belong there! Glad you enjoyed your break!
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« Reply #49 on: October 25, 2015, 02:00:08 PM » |
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I always go in October. After the tourists & midges have gone but before the Winter weather arrives.
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« Reply #50 on: October 25, 2015, 08:01:27 PM » |
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I've travelled that road many times in my competitive days, some time it was great sometimes it was a miserable dark wet trip. Remember coming out of Inverness and you climb a big hill. Air cooled camper 4 up with boards on the roof, 15mph flat out into a headwind.  |
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« Reply #51 on: October 27, 2015, 01:21:26 PM » |
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Andy - really sorry that I missed you. I will send down your award from the Scottish Tourist Board - you really sell the place. I love living here, there is so much space, the scenery's lovely, there are so many hidden places ( ie beaches ) and no speed cameras! Mind you, the roads are crap and the scenery so lovely that you don't want to go too fast ...
If any MMM is planning a trip up this way then please let me know and I'll give you some pointers to places off the tourist path.Serious.
Your timing was impeccable Andy, it snowed on Sat. evening. I'll post some pics once I work out how to do it!
May the Frogs be with you. Tom
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« Reply #52 on: October 27, 2015, 02:56:46 PM » |
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Hiya, yeah, I notice you're home again now I'm safely South of the border  My 6th or 7th holiday there & still love it as much as the first time. I was going to nip over to the Isle of Mull, but just ran out of time. Some beautiful beaches over there. I'll be back! |
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« Reply #53 on: November 03, 2015, 08:52:26 PM » |
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Finally got the use of my laptop back -no internet connection where I live, so I've got a Wi-Fi dongle thingy with limited data allowance each month -so here's the snaps of Loch Ness.
Very eerie place. Only the 2nd deepest loch in Scotland, (755 feet & 23 miles long), but the high peat content in the local soil makes the waters unusually dark & mysterious. It's easy to imagine something big lurking in the depths.
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« Reply #54 on: November 03, 2015, 08:57:08 PM » |
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One minute the water's dead flat calm, then the wind blows ripples across it & you could almost mistake them for the dark hump of ...who knows what.
Sunken yacht on the West shore.
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« Reply #55 on: November 03, 2015, 08:59:06 PM » |
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Very spooky Scooby Doo boat too.
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« Reply #56 on: November 03, 2015, 09:00:08 PM » |
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« Reply #57 on: November 03, 2015, 09:02:02 PM » |
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Loch Ness was also the scene of John Cobb's doomed water speed record attempt in 1952.
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« Reply #59 on: November 03, 2015, 09:16:03 PM » |
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The Falls of Foyers. 165 feet tall & a bit scary when you're perched on the edge of a rock beside them.
One Victorian aristocrat was so frightened of the slippery, muddy descent through the woods to see the "thundering mist that rose through the trees" that he immediately gave the huge sum of £5 to launch a fund for a safer set of steps for visitors. A local civil engineer raised the rest of the 45 pounds needed to complete the work. The flow was once much faster, but an aluminium smelting plant, built at the turn of the last century, diverted some of it's power.
It's still a bit scary.
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