slim_boy_fat
Forum Supporter
- Messages
- 29,498
- Location
- Scottish Highlands
I set out at about 8:20 am today to drive right across Scotland to the West Coast, to visit friends there. 45 miles [yes! All of that ] of which c 2/3 is single track road. Took me about an hour and twenty minutes, weather was atrocious, but on the way the traffic was horrendous.
I met:
7 private cars
4 SUVs
6 vans - 1 black/dark Renault Traffic [signwritten], 1 Ford Connect in white, 4 Ford Transits in white
1 lorry [tanker] with either heating oil or petrol to the Lochinver petrol station?
On the way home, I left them at c 2:30 hoping to miss the school run crowd - the peedie bairns shiel first
I met:
2 x minibuses with school children [bless..... ]
5 SUVs
4 vans: Same Renault Traffic, 1 Ford Connect - again in white, 3 Ford Transits, all in white
And that was it. It's a while since I saw that much traffic at this time of the year.......
Sorry to rub it in to those who spend half their lives on the M25 etc - but it's a different story in the holiday period(s) when the place is alive [and clogged up ] with 'grockles' [I know it originally applied to those visitors to Devon/Cornwall, but I'm trying to be polite here.......] who can't handle the narrow roads/passing places when 'doing' the NC500.
I met:
7 private cars
4 SUVs
6 vans - 1 black/dark Renault Traffic [signwritten], 1 Ford Connect in white, 4 Ford Transits in white
1 lorry [tanker] with either heating oil or petrol to the Lochinver petrol station?
On the way home, I left them at c 2:30 hoping to miss the school run crowd - the peedie bairns shiel first
I met:
2 x minibuses with school children [bless..... ]
5 SUVs
4 vans: Same Renault Traffic, 1 Ford Connect - again in white, 3 Ford Transits, all in white
And that was it. It's a while since I saw that much traffic at this time of the year.......
Sorry to rub it in to those who spend half their lives on the M25 etc - but it's a different story in the holiday period(s) when the place is alive [and clogged up ] with 'grockles' [I know it originally applied to those visitors to Devon/Cornwall, but I'm trying to be polite here.......] who can't handle the narrow roads/passing places when 'doing' the NC500.