Featured Touring North Of Scotland Trip (based In Ullapool)

Just got back yesterday from a great 5 day trip of the north of Scotland, Lou and myself met up with James
(@andyc1 was supposed to be on the trip but unfortunatley his goverment in Northern ireland were not letting people travel out of N.I)
about 20 miles north of Braemar and headed up through the Cairngorms on our way up to Ullapool we took the long route cutting of the A835 at Garve and taking the A832 to Achnasheen and continuing on around the coast until re-joining the main Ullapool rd (A832) we were based at the Caledonian hotel in Ullapool for 4 nights.
View down towards Achnasheen





The next day we took a little road up to Lochinver then cut off and did the Drumberg loop where the scenery is stunning,we did a little detour of the road to visit Achmelvich bay which is one of the many beautiful beaches on the north west coast,when we came off the Drumberg loop onto the A894 near the Kylesku bridge we stopped of at the Kylesku hotel, as you don’t see it from the road I was curious to see it.we then headed north up to near Laxford bridge where we then cut off down the A838 down toward lairg and took the A839 back to Ullapool.
Achmelvich Bay


little beach next to Achmelvich bay


Kylesku hotel near the bridge


Kylesku bridge


The following day we headed up north on the main road this time and cut off to Kinlochbervie for our first a coffee,then up to Durness and around the coast to Tongue where we took the A836 to Lairg then down to Dingwell and Strathpeffer and back up to Ullapool.
One of the many beaches along from Durness









We had been really lucky with the weather as when we looked at the weather forecast each night lt never looked great but thankfully the forecasts were wrong, the Wednesday however wasn’t great in the morning but it cleared up in the afternoon so we decided to do a little loop of Achiltbuie north of Ullapool,we stopped off at a little caravan park somewhere on the loop and had a coffee and sat in the sun for a while.

For our run home on the Thursday the weather forecast looked horrendous snow and rain, but again although the roads were a bit damp there was no rain or snow, james headed towards Inverness and me and Lou went down the side of Loch ness,I have never seen this road as quiet I only had one car to overtake it was brilliant, I left Lou at Spean Bridge where I took the road to Dalwhinnie and Lou headed back down glencoe and LochLomond.

More photos to come!

 

some more photos

 

Palm trees in Ullapool!

 

Photos really don't do it justice,there are so many fantastic views you could be stopping around every corner for a photo