Well it was another great trip organised by Robert and Heather Kidd. We headed North – almost as far as you can go on the mainland. Cars included the Ferrari, Porsche 911, TVR, Boxster, Healey 6/100 and the Elise.
The route beyond Inverness included stops for lunch at the very busy “Storehouse of Foulis” and then further north on the A836 to Crask Inn. A wonderful place to stop – apparently it is bad luck not to stop – so we had tea & cakes and although one or two had a glass of beer.
Resting inside Crask Inn.
This road is single track with passing places, super views to help along the way, and then you get to the coast with it’s beaches, cliffs and of course the sea.
The hotel we stayed in was The Tongue Inn, in Tongue and provided a warm welcome, clean rooms and good food.
Picture: diners at Tongue Hotel.
The attached pub provided the beer – we drank them dry of “real ale” on the Friday night.
Saturday, a dry start - we went east – some to John O’Groats others stopped in Thurso – a busy town with the usual coffee shops, museum and walks by the river.
Lunch was at the award winning Captains Galley, at Scrabster.
Picture of restaurant. Inside and out.
Famous for it’s fresh seafood and we enjoyed some fantastic food during the afternoon there. Some took a long route back to Tongue – again mainly single track roads.
Saturday night we were entertained by the locals in the hotel bar and we enjoyed an impromptu darts match which stretched late into the night – more because of the poor scoring than the excitement of the game.
Photo: Hotel bar.
Elaine’s looking forward to the next one.
Myke
