Technically not today but... Last Sunday drove from Aberdeen across the Cairngorms, through Inverness and on up to Scourie in the far North West. Spent Monday wandering around Sutherland up to Durness and Smoo Cave plus Chocolate Mountain for some serious supplies and a swim in the Atlantic at Polin Beach near Kinlochbervie followed by a second night in the very good Eddrachilles Hotel with more good food, chat and malt whisky. Tuesday was a wander down the coast road through Lochinver and Ullapool to Poolewe before spending Wednesday driving through Torridon, round Applecross, over the Bealach na Baa to Lochcarron, on through Glen Garry to Fort William and then to Kinlochleven for a night in the Macdonald Hotel (more food and malt of course) which led to a session on the indoor ice climbing wall at the Ice Factor which was a bit of a shock to the system after not climbing since '88! At least the instructor was surprised that I managed all the routes he pointed me at including the trendy "dry tooling" one - one up for the old farts! Thursday was a run through Glencoe to Crianlarich, Lochearnhead and in via Revolutions in Perth to pick up my M3W red cross parcel from Donald (thanks!) More food and drink on Thursday night before home to Aberdeen on Friday. Weather was mainly the usual blue skies and sunshine you would expect in September in NW Scotland though a couple of times there was a bit of a strange phenomenon where what can only really be described as drops of water seemed to simply fall out of the sky. Very odd, quite refreshing really and did tend to keep the road dust down. Locals seemed to be a bit surprised by this water from the sky thing too, probably just the silver lining leaking out of the clouds. Photos will appear shortly in the gallery pages - the light was superb much of the time. Car just worked.
