Community Scotch-land trip May 2024

We were even fortunate and the forecast thunderstorms didn’t appear until the evening when were in the hotel in Mallaig.

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I don’t want to tempt fate but the weather has been very kind to us, mostly sunny and 20+ degrees.
 
We were even fortunate and the forecast thunderstorms didn’t appear until the evening when were in the hotel in Mallaig.

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I don’t want to tempt fate but the weather has been very kind to us, mostly sunny and 20+ degrees.
Once the adventure has ended could you possibly list the hotels you stayed at during the trip and how you rated them please WCP?
I’d have loved to have been there with you all, Skye looks beautiful.
 
Once the adventure has ended could you possibly list the hotels you stayed at during the trip and how you rated them please WCP?
I’d have loved to have been there with you all, Skye looks beautiful.
Each day brings about even greater surprises than the previous, surprisingly. It has been, so far, a most excellent tour, even riding in the rain yesterday was fun (not a rain riding type unlike you year-rounders).
 
Speaking from a works perspective, digs are a struggle up the west coast, especially as summer comes. I've been trying to get stuff for a week of vessel audits in late August and the prices of what is left is eye watering. What you would class as basic hotels anywhere else can be well over 300 quid a night, if you can get them at all. Am in some glamping cabin/pod type thing one night and that was 285 😳
 
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We were even fortunate and the forecast thunderstorms didn’t appear until the evening when were in the hotel in Mallaig.

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I don’t want to tempt fate but the weather has been very kind to us, mostly sunny and 20+ degrees.
May tends to be the most reliable weather month with no west coast midges and less traffic - there are always exceptions of course, we did get snow in May 1976 but the rest of summer made up for that :ROFLMAO:
 
Speaking from a works perspective, digs are a struggle up the west coast, especially as summer comes. I've been trying to get stuff for a week of vessel audits in late August and the prices of what is left is eye watering. What you would class a basic hotels anywhere else can be well over 300 quid a night, if you can get them at all. Am in some glamping cabin/pod type thing one night and that was 285 😳
You need to get a camper van on expenses, such a shame you aren't an MSP :unsure::ROFLMAO:
 
Speaking from a works perspective, digs are a struggle up the west coast, especially as summer comes. I've been trying to get stuff for a week of vessel audits in late August and the prices of what is left is eye watering. What you would class a basic hotels anywhere else can be well over 300 quid a night, if you can get them at all. Am in some glamping cabin/pod type thing one night and that was 285 😳
Bugger that, I’ll stay at Larry’s for f### all….
 
Once the adventure has ended could you possibly list the hotels you stayed at during the trip and how you rated them please WCP?
I’d have loved to have been there with you all, Skye looks beautiful.
I shall indeed, but it won’t be complimentary. That’s not to say those of the group that went to the bother of finding and booking accommodation didn’t do a great job, they did, it was just very difficult for them to find accommodation for a group of 6, which is what, more than anything, dictated our route. It’s just the standard of accommodation is completely at odds with the prices charged, and not in a good way.

I intend to return next year but this time with Anne but booking will happen almost as soon as I return to make sure we get decent rates, well rates that match the level of quality (or lack of it) at least.
 
@990Glen in response to your question above, we used the ferry from Kilchoan to Tobermory and then the ferry from Craignure to Oban - sorry, I didn’t get the boat names.

The service is good, but another word of warning for those intending to come up here (and you really should, it’s beautiful), book the ferries as soon as possible. Even this early in may, the ferries were full and we could only get one off Mull to Oban at 19.50 yesterday evening (and they’re already running their summer schedule.
 
@990Glen in response to your question above, we used the ferry from Kilchoan to Tobermory and then the ferry from Craignure to Oban - sorry, I didn’t get the boat names.

The service is good, but another word of warning for those intending to come up here (and you really should, it’s beautiful), book the ferries as soon as possible. Even this early in may, the ferries were full and we could only get one off Mull to Oban at 19.50 yesterday evening (and they’re already running their summer schedule.
Fin's Place: Old Mill Est/Soroba Rd, Oban PA34 4HQ 👀
 
That’s a long day!

Not as long as RA5's - three flights to Manchester; straight from the airport to collect his bike which was delayed by 2.5 hours. Then he rode the bike (Tracer 9GT) following me in the car (his first time riding on the left).

Quick change and loaded my bike up, then blasted 180 miles north to meet up with Hugo Magnus for the night close to Cairnryan.

A pretty full on day and a baptism of fire for him.
 
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