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Day 2:
This was our first full day in Scotland and saw us travel from just North of Inverness on up to Durness via John O' Groats, some fantastic roads and scenery on that leg of the trip.
Our first stop was the Glen Ord Distillery as we'd stayed in Muir of Ord so it made sense, we just had a quick walk around the shop etc. and didn't bother with the tours as none of us drink whisky and obviously were all driving so couldn't / shouldn't drink even if we had done the tours.
After that quick stop we headed on up the coast to Dunrobin Castle which was really cool, fantastic building, views, garden and the falconry was great too!
A little video of 4 of the cars (No Clown as he was filming) passing the camera as we left the castle.
With a castle under our belts we headed on with our travels enjoying the views and slowly making our way as far North as you can on the mainland but first we stopped off in Helmsdale as the sea view looked great which in fact turned out to also have a cool bridge so we got some photos of that too.
After lots more driving and a couple of other stops we arrived!
We were taking photos of the cars below the sign and got chatting to a biker who said we should just drive up to the sign and take photos as the people there don't mind, unlike at Lands End where they'd had to ask really nicely to get their bikes by the sign. So obviously we put the cars by the sign and got lots of photos.
From John O' Groats we had to then drive on to Durness, via the
Y Not Bar & Grill for a fantastic burger.
We took the A836 West from Thurso and stopped at a parking / viewing spot near an observatory or something for some pics and the views.
Further along the A836 I spotted a modern Clio in my rear view going at some pace, let him pass and he then carried on and took the rest of us and drove the A836 to Tongue really rather well and quickly. I was at the back but could tell he knew the roads when I saw him approaching then he lead the others off at rather a brisk pace, I however didn't want to go flat out and then met the sheep in the video I posted before so dropped right back from everyone.
We saw the Tongue Causeway and decided we had to stop for the view and sunset pics, the Clio carried on but as we were parking up he returned and parked up with us and we had a chat. His car was a Clio 200 and he was a local, saw that the evening weather was nice so decided to go out for a drive, then met us and showed us how to drive the roads. Top bloke and always great to meet people that know the roads and are interested in cars too.
Once in Durness it was a case of chilling out for a couple hours then bed, all of this was our longest full day in Scotland with us covering 190 miles over upwards of 7 hours engine running time (thanks MFA
).
