{"id":36749,"date":"2019-11-12T18:49:36","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T18:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ourtour.co.uk\/home\/?p=36749"},"modified":"2019-12-02T20:19:08","modified_gmt":"2019-12-02T20:19:08","slug":"flying-down-the-west-coast-durness-to-ullapool-to-ben-nevis-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourtour.co.uk\/home\/flying-down-the-west-coast-durness-to-ullapool-to-ben-nevis-scotland\/","title":{"rendered":"Flying Down the West Coast, Durness to Ullapool to Ben Nevis, Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Zagan the motorhome’s a blur across the landscape folks. Well, not quite, but we’re shifting at a right old pace compared with how fast we’d like to be, which would be roughly stationary, 0mph, still parked up by the beach at Sango Bay in Durness<\/a>! We’re currently sat in the forest car park which is the base for walking to the north face of Ben Nevis (N56.84220, W5.04291<\/a>). The main car park for the mountain is at the visitor centre at Achintee, a couple of miles from here, but it’s not possible to overnight there in a motorhome, so we bounced down a short rough track to get here instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The North Face Car Park for Ben Nevis, Scotland<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It was only a week ago we were sat at Dyhart<\/a> just north of Edinburgh, waiting to complete some filming work in Dunfirmline. Since then we’ve headed up the east coast to John O’ Groats<\/a>, across the north to Durness<\/a>, and then south again to Ullapool, following the North Coast 500 route. But we’ve not managed to complete the full five hundred-odd miles, not by a long shot. We ended up doing our own version, the OurTour NC343. We’ve opted to save quite a chunk of the west coast side for another visit, as we’ve committed to be at home in Nottingham on Saturday for a race on Sunday, and to go and see Ranulph Fiennes talk on Monday. I suspect that if we were on a week’s holiday we might have forced the issue and driven the full NC500 circuit but, the gods willing, we’ve plenty of time available to us to come back and do a proper job of it when we’re not in a hurry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When we left Durness I was a little on edge, faced with the prospect of many miles of single track road. The NC500 seems to have developed a popularity problem, and motorhome travellers on it are sometimes berated for clogging up the roads and making life difficult for the locals and other tourists. We didn’t want to be part of the problem, but it’s not been an issue:<\/p>\n\n\n\n