The highlands.

[arbwork]

Im not Scots but. Spring and Autumn best, care midges in summer, west coast all the way to the top superb scenery, some good arboretums and gardens, beautiful remote beaches and lots more

[Taupotreeman]

Not quite the highlands but I had folks that lived at a place called Garybank in Blair Atholl. Stunning scenery and plenty of walks to do. Would suggest heading up to Rannoch moor/station as there are some old growth Pine and Birch forests there (or at least there were) and it is blissfully quiet. Garrybank is now a holiday let and they advertise on the net. Blair castle is quite cool too and there's plenty of whiskey distilleries about. Alternatively I'd head to the west coast. We stayed on Loch Awe and went to places like Glen Etive and Glen Orchey. The whole area is just awesome but if you want total isolation I'd go for one of the islands. It just depends what you want to do. I'd stay well clear of Aviemore though; personally couldn't stand the place. Apologies to anyone that's from there.

[Big J]

We love the Highlands, particularly the North West coast above Ullapool.

 

If I were you, going to visit the Highlands for the first time, I would have to recommend that area. For it's stunning, desolate beauty and unrivalled isolation there is nowhere finer. For instance, Sutherland is 3 1/2 times the size of Greater London, but with only 13k people living there.

 

If you work your way up the west coast from Ullapool, you'll come across such places Assynt. The mountains there are technically known as Inselbergen (Island mountains) as they spring from the landscape like islands in the sea. Suilven is actually my favourite mountain in Scotland:

 

 

If you continue right on all the way up to Durness, you'll find yourself in the most North Westerly village in Britain. There is a real stunner of a beach 3 miles east of Durness called Ceannabeinne:

 

 

There is a cottage at the top of the beach that you could maybe try:

 

Ceannabeinne Cottage - Ceannabeinne cottage

 

Don't worry about crowds - we've been there in the middle of summer and the most people we've ever seen you could count on one hand!

 

Jonathan

[Stephen Blair]

nice!

[David oakman]

Ditto nice.

[Lorry thompson]

Me and the wife love gardenstown near macduff banff it's not quite as far as the highlands but isn't too far, we stop in a little fishermans cottage named suil na Mara (eye of the sea). Has an open fire and the sea is literally outside the window will put a couple of pics up when I'm at home mate on my phone at the minute. The attic is done out in timber and has a big window which opens for sea views and dolphins can be spotted I love it.

[Roni Macdonald]

If you fancy Argyll I'll get info for you.

[Taupotreeman]

If I ever had to come back from NZ I could live there. Isolation to the max....NICE!

[iainarkle]

sorry to derail the thread (not a complete derail, only a minor one) Me and the missus and the kids would also like to go to scotland this summer but camping.

 

Does anyone know of any good campsites round and between the dumfries to newton stewart area?

 

Cheers

 

Hi, go further north. Dumfriesshire is very very wet...further north is just wet!

[Stu3k]

Applecross Inn going over the "Bealach Na Ba" ,foods simply brilliant