Sven

The aldstadt in Düsseldorf is a great place for a night out with lots of restaurants and bars I used to work in nearby Hattingen, so went there on a weekend or to watch English football matches in the Irish bars where the Brits drank

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I absolutely hate the A9 especially since they restricted the speed limit for comercial vehicles and the addition of average speed cameras. I tend to go up the A82, even on that road I’ve seen people stupidly parking on solid white lines on dangerous sections for a picture so can’t say I’m surprised people seem to be doing it even further up - oh well.

I’m actually surprised how many people don’t know how to use a single track road - have you found this?

I travel all around Scotland during the fishing season and on the single track roads, it is very easy to distinguish between the residents and ‘outsiders’. Three times I’ve almost been in a collision just in the last year!

one of those incidents resulted in the oncoming vehicle (driving too fast) to swerve into a ditch in the side of the road.

Anyway, anti-clockwise sounds like a good shout, I’d rather get any stretch of the A9 done and over with as soon as possible.

Do you reckon end of summer, start of school term is the best time of year to plan this trip for?

 

I would go up the A82 to Inverness and only join the A9 there. But I live near Glasgow and that end of the road

I lived in a village on a single track road and it is amazing how many people do not prepare for them or know they will encounter them on their travels.

I think autumn would be a good idea. The weather has been good then for the past few years and if you stop at a windy west coast place, the midges will not be too bad.

I’d use the A9/A939 via Braemar on the way up to Inverness. On the way back just follow the West Coast south from Ullapool all the way to Ardelve/Dornie next to Eilean Donan Castle (of Highlander movie fame) via Gairloch and Applecross. The A87 and A82 will then take you back to Glasgow via Glen Coe