Scotland in October

[jmac80]

If your going to be in Ullapool at the end of September there is a music festival on called loopallu... If your into that sort of thing?

 

Google search loopallu for the listings. The tent for loopallu gets set up about 20 metres from our firewood shed... So I shall just sit there and soak it all up for free

[GardenKit]

If you get the chance try and visit Torridon and Loch Maree then. Epic places.....unless it's cloudy, raining and misty, which it probably will be

 

 

Thanks Scotspine, purely by coincidence both of these are on the route I selected today for the long way round from Fort William to Ullapool.

 

It looked a bit remote on the map which is why i liked it.

[GardenKit]

If your going to be in Ullapool at the end of September there is a music festival on called loopallu... If your into that sort of thing?

 

Google search loopallu for the listings. The tent for loopallu gets set up about 20 metres from our firewood shed... So I shall just sit there and soak it all up for free

Looks like we may be in Ullapool on the 16th for one night, so hopefully there will be accommodation available. Can you suggest somewhere reasonable?

[jmac80]

Plenty accommodation all over Ullapool on that day, there is bed and breakfasts on just about every street!

[Big J]

Looks like we may be in Ullapool on the 16th for one night, so hopefully there will be accommodation available. Can you suggest somewhere reasonable?

 

How many of there are you?

 

We were in Ullapool at almost exactly the same time last year and stayed in a lovely little 'beachhut' at a B and B called Wingfold:

 

http://www.wingfold.co.uk/

 

It's essentially just a converted garage, but it's been done incredibly well. Lovely German lady running it and the place feels incredibly homely.

 

Don't know if you fish, but there is some nice spinning to be had off the rocks at Rhu Lighthouse (about 3 miles away). Mackerel and Pollack. Wait for the tide to be at least half way in.

 

Good choice heading far north. You won't regret it! Remember to post some photos.

[GardenKit]

How many of there are you?

 

We were in Ullapool at almost exactly the same time last year and stayed in a lovely little 'beachhut' at a B and B called Wingfold:

 

http://www.wingfold.co.uk/

 

It's essentially just a converted garage, but it's been done incredibly well. Lovely German lady running it and the place feels incredibly homely.

 

Don't know if you fish, but there is some nice spinning to be had off the rocks at Rhu Lighthouse (about 3 miles away). Mackerel and Pollack. Wait for the tide to be at least half way in.

 

Good choice heading far north. You won't regret it! Remember to post some photos.

Cheers BJ, there will be just the two of us, but for only one night, so the beach hut is out, and the 'lilac room' just a litle small. Thanks for the info though.

 

Not going to have a lot of time for fishing either, as we will covering around 250-350 miles every day.

[GardenKit]

Well, we have just returned from our fantastic few days in Scotland.

 

We travelled up from Devon to Thornhill, just north of Dumfries, via Windermere, on our first day in marvellous weather.

 

The next day the weather was rubbish as we drove on to Fort Augustus. The views were limited but the extreme weather added an exhilarating wildness to the trip across the mountains and down Glencoe.

 

The next leg took us to Ullapool (stayed in the Arches) but once again the weather on Monday limited the views and made the place feel very bleak, but the journey back down the west coast via Gairloch, Torridon and Kyl, back to the Invergarry Hotel was great. The weather was not brilliant but,nonetheless, the views were stunning.

 

Wednesday saw us back in the lakes at the Black Bull in Coniston (fantastic beer from the in-house brewery)

 

Yesterday we revisited Lydbury North in shropshire, where we lived in the 80's and overnighted at East Symonds Yat, on the banks of the Wye, at the Saracens Head.

 

Got home lunchtime today after completing 1600 miles.

 

Oh, and not a midge to be seen in Scotland. Thanks for all the tips guys.

[Stephen Blair]

Weathers been pretty poor for the last 2 weeks, glad you enjoyed the trip.

[GardenKit]

We had planned to drive up through Kilmarnock and your town to take the Dunoon ferry, but the weather on Sunday was pretty bad, so we headed up the M76 and across the Erskine bridge. Finding our way from the M76 onto the M8 was fun, given the heavy rain and spray. We don't have roads that big in Devon.

[woody3]

We had planned to drive up through Kilmarnock and your town to take the Dunoon ferry, but the weather on Sunday was pretty bad, so we headed up the M76 and across the Erskine bridge. Finding our way from the M76 onto the M8 was fun, given the heavy rain and spray. We don't have roads that big in Devon.

 

its called Kilmarnock nil (well thats what they say on the radio:lol:)