Right, edited my pics from day one...I didn't take many so that was easy so I may as well write up a proper post.
We arranged to all meet up at peterattheboro's on Sat where we went out for food and all being southerners (obviously aside from Peter) we went out for a Parmo...chicken and molten cheese, it was good but rather heavy work.
Sunday saw us on the road for over 7 hours getting to Inverness, we kept stopping for pics/looking around once in Scotland as "wow these views are amazing"...little did we know...
The first stop was on the border because, well, you basically have to of course.
From there we travelled up through the Cairngorms by the A9 which has average speed cameras along most of it which is obviously a bit tedious but it does mean you can safely check out the views and take it all in.
We stopped a few times in various laybys for photos of the cars and the scenery which broke the time up nicely and it all flew by quite quickly.
Food and drinks in the hotel whilst copying our footage etc. onto hard drives saw an end to the first day. Not the most exciting day really but the proper start point was always going to be Inverness so it was all a case of just getting there for the trip proper to start really.