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help with scotland trip & accommodation

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ascar

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since balloch is just 8 miles from me i can say that there are a few good pubs there.
if you want a bike pub there is Carbeth inn just outside glasgow great food and free refils of coffee and you can get from balloch to it very easily (15 miles).
as for the road up the lochside - after tarbert is is crap better going via arochar ( you dont turn right as you would normally) and up to inverary then take the back road to dalmaly and taynult green wellie stop (again a good bike stop) before glen coe. as most have said crainlarich is a one house town better going to fort william as it is an easy ride from balloch to the start of the great glen then you could go via glen gary or up the great glen to inverness.

If you thought youth hostels were all bunks and ging gang gooly then have a look at this http://www.syha.org.uk/hostels/highlands/carbisdale_castle.aspx just north of inverness and at ?17 per night is still cheap.

if you need helping hand to find carbeth inn just shout as you might have too much fun on the roads about balloch
 
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walesyg

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Get some insect repellant for the midgies.:-0)
 
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Grapefruits

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Hi Ascar Carbeth looks promising for a call in when we get up there over the weekend will run it by Martyn and the lads at work next week when he gets back from his week away

Cheers for all the advice forgot about the midges as I normally go up there between Jan and end of March are they as bad as everyone says if so will have to nip down superdrug over the weekend
 
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ascar

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the midge

the best midge repelant is by avon its called - skin so soft oil - works great and cost about ?5 for 2 bottles - the hillwalkers up here swear by it
 
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Red Mick

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the best midge repelant is by avon its called - skin so soft oil - works great and cost about ?5 for 2 bottles - the hillwalkers up here swear by it

I read recently, on here I think, that the active ingredient which happened to repel midges, had been removed from Avon products. I'll stand corrected, but it's worth checking on that. Schtum is probably the best qualified to answer that question.
 
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MARTYN-CBR600

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hi all not been on here for a while with being on hols and busy at home anyway like grapes said will call in the pub just north Glasgow and i have now got some midgies spray thought i was going to miss them all but dont think im so lucky:bang: just need to have a look at the map next week but think we will just follow the roads and see where they take us got a rough idea of things i want to see
fancy having some photo in front of the castle in the high lander flim and many other well known places
any info on places you all may have been would be gratefully appricated
cheers in advance
 

Vinterceptor

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The road over to Applecross is a good run, hairpins with altitude. There's a pub at the other side of the hill worth calling in at. Then either go back over the top or follow the coastal road northwards, it's quite a narrow road with regular passing places. But def worth doing, specially if it's a clear day.
 
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ascar

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Eilean Donan castle is the one from highlander and is a good run up past glen gary along the shore of loch duich, if you keep going you you will get to kyle of lochalsh then round to applecross. make sure you fill up with fuel at kyle as there are not alot of fuel stops after it.
you never know you might even pass me on the way down from the north as im doing a run up there this week comming
 
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Grapefruits

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Hoping to do the Rannoch Moor, Glen Coe, Fort William, Eilean Donan, Skye Bridge 160 miles each way from where we stopping in Balloch on the saturday and if time allows head out towards Applecross all depends on how much ale we have on friday night and time we take to stop and gawp on our way round
 
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