Blip beyond the wall

[Blipi]

After a few driving adventures in Scotland I have generated interest from others and am keen to promote the miles of fun that you can have from a driving holiday there.

I know it is very early planning but thought I would see what interest there would be from other Northamptonites joining me next year.

I would ike to co-incide it with Callander Classics again and possibly a blip around Knockhill track. Generally I go budget and freedom by camping (also gives option for FIRE! ) However for you softies I am sure B&B or alternative living arrangements can be arranged.

Please give a quick note here if you would be intersted so I can guage whether I will need to make group plans for people.

Justin will hopefully post up a few of my snaps to give a small idea of what is up there.

'Hey you Jimmy' hats are not required...

[tyre_tread]

Alison and I would be interested. Alison is a big Scotland fan and we already know some of the delights of the empty road up there.

I haven't been to the highlands for many years but I remember chasing a souped up Range Rover i my MG Monetgo at speeds of, well, shall we say plenty! The roads and scenery are great. Ig poss you MUST incluse the trip around Loch Awe near Oban. The road round the back of the loch is awesome. I have some video footage of the Rover if anyone can host it.

Scotland is brilliant for driving but the weather can be a bit irritating so we would probablt not do the "under canvas" thing.

We could always do www.huntingtower-lodges.com/home.html - We've stayed there a couple f times and as they sleep up to 6 they can work out quite reasonable.

[justinbaker]

Just uploading them m'dear!

Edited by justinbaker on Wednesday 30th August 08:53

[Blipi]

Will try and post your links this evening for you all.

[Blipi]

Righty, here goes...


Fab road views


BIG fire! hee hee


Castle Aaaarrgh (Monty Python)


Mountain views


Road views


One of my fave roads into Glen Coe!


About half way up Ben Nevis


Loch Lomond taken from the start of the climb up the Cobbler


Mountains from the road


Near the top of the Cobbler


Best pub in the World with stunning views and amazing beer!


More stunning road views


Road views...


Skye road getting up a bit of speed


Some twisties


Hmmmm. Sorry, they seem to have come out a bit large. Moving back into technodense stage again and needing geek intervention...

Fab! All re-sized! It is very difficult taking pics while driving so this is only a small idea of my adventure.

Edited by Blipi on Wednesday 30th August 21:54

Edited by Blipi on Thursday 31st August 11:56

[WildCards]

Would love to come Blipi, but time, money and family responsabilities usually suppress any fun I might have.

[matt172]

Blipi said:

Righty, here goes...


Hmmmm. Sorry, they seem to have come out a bit large. Moving back into technodense stage again and needing geek intervention...

size looks alright to me, they load up big, and then PH automatically resizes them like this picture

[pupp]

Hope nobody's looking at those on a 56k dial up connection

[justinbaker]

Those pictures are lovely, don't panic Stef, the browser resizes them for you, if you click on them you can view them full scale, or print them for that matter.

I do want to go very badly after seeing these.

[craikeybaby]

I would be up for this seeing as I didn't get to go this year. Although as I mentioned the other day I really want to go to the Isle of Lewis, although it is really just to say that I've been there.