We Survived the NC500

Our last day of the NC500! Last night was another “Spar” night, i.e. grab some snacks from the local supermarket. It seems the towns and villages on the NC500 are suffering a massive staffing shortage on the catering front. Despite that, the hotel deserves a picture.

Today was a bit odd insomuch as we had little left to do, but there was too much to do to finish the trip yesterday. Given that hindsight is 20/20 we may have done better by stopping earlier yesterday, and starting off today with the Applecross loop. Today’s one and only planned stop was a walk to the Rogie waterfalls.

The scenery changed from barren rocks to grass and green trees. I hadn’t mentioned earlier, but in a lot of the places we travelled through, there were no trees.

We stopped for coffee, and for some reason there was a wall of tea pots!

We arrived at the hotel a couple of hours early, and we couldn’t check in so we just ambled around the countryside (for a change) and went into the local town of Dingwall.

Again, the hotel has staffing problems and their restaurant is only open 3 days a week, today isn’t one of them so we will go out and treat ourselves to some typical Highland food—–an Indian Curry!

Well, the meal was excellent!

Looking back over the last week, it was well worth doing! Lyn had planned out an excellent itinerary which managed to give us enough to do, but didn’t wear us out. The scenery was excellent and the weather cooperated most days. I found I was a little out of practice for driving on narrow roads while sitting on the other side of the car. After a couple of days I sort got used to it, but the single track roads were a little taxing. I guess old age is setting in!

I suspect this will be the last entry for this trip as the next couple of weeks will be spent with friends and family, so not too much travel. If anything interesting comes up, I’ll make an entry.

The next trip is a cruise on the Danube from Budapest, Hungary to Amsterdam, Holland at the beginning of October. In the mean time I will try to find a better way to post the pictures, it was a PITA this time!!