bgh187

Hi All
Thought I'd share some pics from our 4 day driving holiday from early May
The plan was to go from Edinburgh, up through the cairngorms to inverness. and stay there on night 1.


Our Vehicles for the trip

bgh187

day 2 we were setting off from Inverness and heading up do as many of the suggested driving roads around north highlands.
So we headed A9>B9176>A836 to Tongue











Then on to Durness for a pitstop.


Smoo cave.

Had to give right of way to these guys, just so we could get a good look at their machinery of choice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9WyvaUhtMs

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After Durness we headed to Balnakeil beach and the on to our overnight stop at Lochinver via the B869, which I quite an amazing road to drive! with some really scary crests and drops like a rollercoaster.


Everyone takes a photo of this bridge

Day 3 we headed out from Lochinver in the rain and drove for Ullapool for a fuel stop. By the time we reached Ullapool the weather had broken and the sun was out





We then headed for the Bealach Na Ba, doing the coastal road first and then heading over from the Applecross side.














After that we headed back to Inverness for our last night.




Day 4 we set out to head to Skye. The weather was really misty in Inverness, but as we drove south down by Loch Ness the weather broke again and the temperature doubled to 26c!

We drove along the A87 and stopped on at Eilean Donan castle for luch and some sight seeing.




We then headed over to Skye and turned down towards Armadale for the ferry to Malaig.






Once off the ferry we had a good blast along the A830 to Fort William where we stopped for dinner.

After we had been fed we put the foot down and headed for home back in Edinburgh.





All in all it was a brilliant trip and very easy to do! We covered 926 miles in the 4 days and I still managed to do nearly 30mpg in the S2000! lol
The only minor casualties of the trip were my exhaust taking a bit of scraping, my windscreen getting chipped and the type R had a bit of a fight with a boulder and came out second best with a slightly broken splitter.

We will definitely be doing this trip again next year and hopefully getting to do more of the suggested roads.

Cheers
Blair.

eSeM

Very nice photos. Are the first couple taken at Glenshee?

bgh187

Yeah that's exactly where they are. We stopped off to stretch the legs

AndyNFRS2k

Wow! Looks like a great trip and good weather on the whole!

Does that CTR have a door issue... nearly always has one of them open

kw_21

Looks like a great trip. The scenery and roads look awesome

S2Bray

Looks decent!

What wheels/brakes do you have there?

Flukez

Trip looks fantastic. Pretty rare to find another Blair, in Edinburgh, that owns an S2K!

bgh187

They are Rota Fighter alloys and the brakes are Tarox 10pot GT big brake kit.
Massive stopping power!