Ok, we’ll break from the traditional picture of the place we stayed last night, for two reasons. I forgot to take a photo, and I wasn’t impressed with it. We’ve had better rooms with breakfast and dinner included for less than half the price of that place, also it’s location, Ullapool professes to be a tourist town. I think all that means is that they can increase the prices and decrease the services. Trying to find any form of eating establishment that didn’t have a 2 hour wait was not possible, we finished up at the local chippy.
This morning we headed out after tracking down a mediocre breakfast. OK soap box mode off.
Our first stop today was Corrieshaloch, the site of a large gorge. Pictures below
Next are some general views as we drove to the next stop
Below are a couple of shots of Loch Ewe. This loch was used during WWII as a staging area for convoys to the Russian Arctic regions.
The loch is still used by the military today, below is a NATO refueling station.
We finally came to the highlight of todays trip, the Applecross Loop. This is a smaller than usual single track road which climbs to 2053ft ASL and is one of the highest roads in the UK. As you can see the views are spectacular.
Well, I am sure they would have been if the clouds weren’t so low!
Now to the title, we have constantly been warned about the the driving habits of mobile homes on this route. They have been fine, the real idiots on the road are cyclists. They apparently have no situational awareness. They insist on riding two abreast and taking up the whole lane of the road even if there is a queue of cars behind and the cyclists are traveling at magnificent 3 MPH. Also it appears passing places only exist for motor vehicles to allow bikes through in the opposite direction, the cyclists have no concept of using these passing places to allow cars to pass them! Second rant over.
We checked into our guest house and were pleased to find good accommodation.
Todays blog is a little haphazard with little writing other than rants! It’s just one of those days.
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