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[Unhinged]

I'm driving myself CLKD, I don't mind if it takes a long time, even if I don't set off til 6am I reckon I'll still be there by 8pm at worst, but will prob leave earlier - lots of coffee and loo stops with no pressure to rush!

I can't wait, can you really see the scenery from just outside Glasgow? Oh wow. When I get there I'm not going to drive everywhere as will miss too much, so we've got trips booked, and there's boats and trains and safaris ... I really can't wait.   

[CLKD]

'set off till 6 '  - I'd go the night before then 

Safari - in Scotland?  who with?

[honeybun]

There was a deer walked past our front window last week 

It's a lovely part of the country that you are going to and I hope you get to see it at its best.

About twenty mins outside Glasgow, over the Erskine bridge and you are at Loch Lomond. Then it's scenery all the way.



Honeyb
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[Unhinged]

Yeah I know 6am, but I'm going to the Isle of Wight just for a day trip on Saturday, and I have to leave the coach depot at 5am, so I'll be getting up before I've gone to bed ha ha!

There's a safari company which runs out of Fort William (there's a few different ones), the one I like is called 'Wild West Safaris' and they do what they call 'The Big Five' safari (wildlife of course, not the lions, tigers and bears oh my!). Anyway, he says that we will see (all being well): seals, otters, red squirrels, red deer and golden eagles, plus a two hour boat trip on Loch Shiel.

I'm really into wildlife and scenery, I visit Exmoor regularly and go on the wildlife jeep safaris there, I really love it because you see so much more when you're not driving. Also, I have noticed that when I'm on holiday my anxiety disappears! (Except I'm going back to Prague in October which I absolutely love, but now I feel anxious about flying after that Germanwings crash!) 

[Unhinged]

Honeybun, a deer outside your window? How wonderful! I live on the outskirts of a town but I would really love to live in the country, I feel like that's where I belong, the trouble is work though, I'm on my own with a mortgage so have to keep working, but if I win the lottery I will move to the middle of the heather-clad Exmoor and have a holiday home in Scotland too by the sounds of it! I have never heard anyone say they didn't like Scotland and I genuinely cannot fathom why I haven't gone before (except for a diverted flight to Glasgow airport before!). I can't wait to see the scenery x   

[bramble]

The scenery will get better and better as you drive north. You will have the Lakeland hills then the soft rolling green hills of the borders then on to the proper mountains around FW. You will be about an hour and a bit from Oban - you could get the ferry across to Mull and the chocolate shop in Tobermory! I walked from Fort William to Inverness about 10 years ago along the Great Glen Way. Took 6 days but beautiful scenery. Look out for Nessie. FW is a great base. Enjoy!

Bramble

[Unhinged]

Bramble - you walked the Great Glen Way? How absolutely awesome is that! I would love to do that,  and also that walk from Glasgow to Fort William, I can't remember what it's called, but I think it's about 90 miles or something. I saw a programme on TV a few weeks ago about a young chap who climbed all the Munros? Wow, I wish I could get fit, what a wonderful world is out there, that walk must have been magnificent, imagine all that way from FW to Inverness - yes I shall watch out for Nessie ha ha!

Ferry across to Mull, yes would like to do that, also want to see the Islands and the far north as well as the Cairngorm area, go to where the battle of Culloden was. I can see I am going to need to make several visits!

I might even do a coach holiday next time, I saw 'Lochs & Glens', it looks terrific. Thanks for all your tips! x

[honeybun]

I'm actually right on the coast and am more likely to see seals than deer but we live next to a country park and they come awandering at times along with pheasants trying to avoid men with guns 


Honeyb
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[Unhinged]

Oh boy, what a place to live you lucky woman! (Men shooting birds not so much - but the rest yes!). I am off to bed to dream of heather clad hills ....  x 

[Joyce]

Scenery up the A9 is amazing, especially north of Perth.  I lived in Inverness for 3 years & still miss it to this day. Moray Firth tends to be milder as a rule. Loch Ness is beautiful.  Braemar is also beautiful. If you like walking there is a walk around Loch Muick (pronounced Mick) it takes a few hours depending on how fast a walker you are. Also Lochnagar, but I've never walked up it as its a bit of a hike, but lots of deer there.

[Unhinged]

Thankyou cubagirl, I do love to walk, I think I am going to need to plan separate visits - so much I want to see, maybe Fort William as a base this time, then a base further north next time, but then there's the areas south of Fort William and to the east, then there's all the islands - how can there be so much to see in one country! No way can I fit everything in, I think I will need to spend 6 months there simply because everything looks so beautiful, I don't want to miss anything!

[oldsheep]

Unhinged, I'm not able to answer your question, but just wanted to say your username made me burst out laughing, so thanks 

[CLKD]

How long are you going for 

[Joyce]

I've always fancied a trip up the West Coast of Scotland as some of the scenery is spectacular, Tighnabruaich in particular. But hubby was made to do this with his folks one year. He had to drive them everywhere & it's put him right off. I've seen a few places, but would love to see more. We do have some of the most wonderful scenery.

[Unhinged]

Hello Oldsheep, glad you had a laugh, that can only be good!

Only got 10 days CLKD. cubagirl, what a shame hubby has been put off, it looks so awesome up there I could easily spend a few months just driving about! Going to look up Tighnabruaich now ....