Scotland.

Mudgie

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There is the Royal Oak at Cullen 1.5 miles away.
Robert,
Walking along the unlit A9 between Dunkeld and Birnam railway station and the Taybank Hotel on a snowy evening during December 2018 has made me reluctant to take such a 1½ mile walk north of the border.
 

Chillybean

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I'm thinking of going away next year for my 60th, it's very tempting to rent a croft up in the highlands, well away from family and life.
Did that a few years go and it was bliss, no mobile network and no internet with a golden beach only 5mins walkaway. Only downside was the traffic on the NC500 during the weekends, it was hideous more like Londons North Circular.
 

kyoto49

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Did that a few years go and it was bliss, no mobile network and no internet with a golden beach only 5mins walkaway. Only downside was the traffic on the NC500 during the weekends, it was hideous more like Londons North Circular.
I don't get this NC500 thing. I mean why do people want to go where everyone else is going? I go Scotland to avoid people not go the same place everyone else is going!
 

Mudgie

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Did that a few years go and it was bliss, no mobile network and no internet with a golden beach only 5mins walkaway. Only downside was the traffic on the NC500 during the weekends, it was hideous more like Londons North Circular.
Did it remind you of the A34 just north of Stafford ?
 

EasMid

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Bloody Alliance Street. Every time I use it as a rat run from Eccy rd to Stone rd it's full of cars double parked blocking the pavements & kids playing football in the street.
 

cj1

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Yeah, desperately need double yellow lines and no ball games signs down that Street.
 

BobClay

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Last time I took a holiday in Scotland was 2002. Travelling on a Yamaha 700cc Virago I did Cornwall to Stafford the first day. (A night out with some old mates.) Stafford to Edinburgh the second day. (Student nostalgia night out.) Edinburgh to Lochinver the third day. The target was the mountain Suilven, one of those strange Mountains of the Assynt. Stayed in hotel near the start of the path. You walk 5 miles to get to it, then a sharp grind uphill to the ridge and along that to get the sugarloaf you can see in the pix. Then all the way back. This is an incredible landscape, billions of years old, it's like something out of a fantasy story.
Next day went south and got to Langdale in the Lake district where I camped to get Bow Fell and Sca Fell ending up in the Dungeon Ghyll pub for a very welcome pint. Back to Cornwall in one go on the following day. A weeks holiday with a lot of biking but those roads up on the west coast of Scotland were made for a bike like the Virago.
This was my third time doing Suilven, did it twice in the 70's and it is without doubt my favourite mountain because it's so strange and remote.

My pix doesn't really do it justice ... if you do a Google Image search for 'Suilven' you'll see how strange it really is.

Suilven.jpg
 
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