Highland Odyssey 29th March 2025 - 3rd April 2025

[B21]

Perhaps the ultimate Highland trip....

Sort of NC500 and Grand Tour on steroids

4 days of criss crossing the Highlands, starting at Laggan and finishing in Spittal of Glenshee, taking in just about every interesting road in the Highlands..800 miles of varied roads, scenery and terrain..limited to 6 cars..reasonable quality hotels have been booked at an average of £150 per night inc breakfast.

It's definitely a sustained driving event rather than a sight seeing cruise.

 

[B21]

Going

B21 aka Peter Yellow E89 no pax
Cherrym aka Mike Silver E89 no pax
Colin aka Colin Black E89 no pax
Stevepg aka Steve White F Type
Mr Tidy aka Iain Silver E86M


Standby

WhatsApp group set up for details

 

[Mr Tidy]

I'm looking forward to this already!

For the sake of completeness I'll also be flying solo.

 

[romanone]

The daily distances look pretty reasonable, actually. How many stops are you planning each day for fuel/breaks?

 

[cerbera]

Tempting but just the wrong side of April for Mrs W's new holiday entitlement.

 

[MarshMA10]

Stayed at the royal in loopallu when I cycled the NC500 recently. Lovely staff in there and TASTY PINTS!

Enjoy the trip, some of the best roads in the world!!

 

[B21]

I'm looking forward to this already!

For the sake of completeness I'll also be flying solo.

Noted..you may find a suitable lady friend by then ?

 

[B21]

The daily distances look pretty reasonable, actually. How many stops are you planning each day for fuel/breaks?

Well it’s 5-6 hours of driving each day…we normally stop for about an hour for lunch…]one or two coffee stops..pee break or two it’s a full day..

 

[B21]

Tempting but just the wrong side of April for Mrs W's new holiday entitlement.

No worries

 

[B21]

Stayed at the royal in loopallu when I cycled the NC500 recently. Lovely staff in there and TASTY PINTS!

Enjoy the trip, some of the best roads in the world!!

loopallu must have been good looking through several tasty pints..

 

[Bahamablue]

I'd be up for this – how do I sign up?

 

[B21]

I'd be up for this – how do I sign up?

Hello all slots taken..I can put you on a standby lost..usually there are one or two rotations before we get there ?

 

[B21]

All slots taken

Going

B21 aka Peter Yellow E89 no pax
Cherrym aka Mike Silver E89 no pax
Colin aka Colin Black E89 no pax
Stevepg aka Steve White F Type no pax
Mr Tidy aka Iain Silver E86M no pax
Dale aka Dale E89 no pax?


Standby

WhatsApp group set up for details

 

[Mr Tidy]

Mr Tidy wrote: ↑Sun Oct 27, 2024 9:09 pm
I'm looking forward to this already!

For the sake of completeness I'll also be flying solo.
Noted..you may find a suitable lady friend by then ?

Very unlikely as I don't want any whining noises from the passenger side of the car! :lol:

 

[B21]

Mr Tidy wrote: ↑Sun Oct 27, 2024 9:09 pm
I'm looking forward to this already!

For the sake of completeness I'll also be flying solo.
Noted..you may find a suitable lady friend by then ?

Very unlikely as I don't want any whining noises from the passenger side of the car! :lol:

 

[novavoyager]

Thanks for the information.

 

[B21]

Getting ready for our 1,500 mile Odyssey..tomorrow home to Ayr…Cherry M picking me up then enroute..Steve meeting us at Ayr..let the journey begin..

 

[Mr Tidy]

I'm still gutted I had to drop out of this trip due to an earlier commitment. I hope you all have a great time.

 

[B21]

Another great trip...probably the best ever I've done in the 11 trips I've done..

Over 7 days had a few showers on the first day to Aye, second day to Invergarry it drizzled most of the day, third day to Ullapool a few spots on departure then sunny, day 4 to Thurso sunny, Day 5 to Dornoch sunny and day 6 to Spittal of Glenshee sunny then on day 7 back home sunny all the way.

Many of the roads have now been resurfaced, so the number of pothole strewn roads and gravelly ones much reduced.

Only saw 2 roadsters, 3 sets of motorbikes and 2 caravans and very few campers.

The vistas were unspoily by loads of white camper vans and most laybys etc were empty.

Our 200 mile days were easily done in 5 hours without any effort.

One badly behaved hotel owner (where we parked in his unused car park for a few minurtes) and a couple of tetchy drivers /locals only.

Sadly my car had a caliper bolt back out so had to abandon it in Glencoe and hitch a ride..which was a great way to soak up the scenery.

Yes we were lucky with the weather..but in all my experiences its never consistently poor weather there.

So defintely either a March or October trip next time..

 

[B21]

A few pics