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[boobydoo]

What a wonderful way to spend a weekend!! Beautiful scenery and a 70s icon!!

 

Everywhere looks so green! We're parched as f**k down in the South East...no rain for weeks!!!

[Split_Pin]

That sounds like a wonderful holiday, thanks for sharing Thats one part of Scotland I have never visited and it looks stunning, even in the wet.

 

Unless someone has an identical Sherpa to yours, I saw you driving along Dalry Road one evening last week whilst I was walking to the train station

[CreepingJesus]

Lovely pics. Happy memories of going to the Cowal Games, with the College of Piping; bands and soloists alike, take it seriously, and play well, but it's much easier going than the hurly-burly of Glasgow during the World Championships.

Does the old Rest-And-Be-Thankful still get used for sprints? I had the absolute pleasure of watching a Mk2 'Scort and a Lotus Sunbeam being hammered along there, many years ago. Was out hill walking, and had much the same vantage point as your pic.

Then there was the new RABT melting, and trapping all those motors a few years back...

[ashmicro]

Thanks for sharing Scooters. I thoroughly enjoyed reading that. To slightly misquote Obi-Wan Kenobi "A more elegant vehicle, from a more civilised age"

 

Damn good read, and superb photos.

[seth]

Excellent. Must properly try and get up to scenic bits of Scotland. Only ever done Edinburgh in the past and it'll be a bit of a trek just getting to the border with the Hillman and trailer.

[scooters]

Thanks for sharing Scooters. I thoroughly enjoyed reading that. To slightly misquote Obi-Wan Kenobi "A more elegant vehicle, from a more civilised age"

 

Damn good read, and superb photos.

 

 

Brilliant - love the Obi-Wan quote - it even had Missus S chortling and like most of 'The Wives' she doesn't have mush of a sense of humour when it comes round to my 'classics'

 

The Autoshite Widows Association AGM

 

[dollywobbler]

Gah. Bring on the liquor! I don't even drink. I think I've changed my mind.

 

Trip sounds ace. The sense of community is a large reason for moving to remote Wales. It's wonderful.

[Guest Leonard Hatred]

Nice photos scooters, I like the ones of the Sherpa in action.

 

I don't know that area of Argyll too well but I've been down to Lochgilphead a couple of times. The drive down is lovely but the town at the end is a bit bleak.

[scooters]

Nice photos scooters, I like the ones of the Sherpa in action.

 

I don't know that area of Argyll too well but I've been down to Lochgilphead a couple of times. The drive down is lovely but the town at the end is a bit bleak.

 

 

Lol Len...yup Lochgilphead is pretty bleak...most towns over there are villages in every other sense of the word - ones worth going to are:

 

Tarbet, the one at West Lock Tarbet on theKintyre peninsular (Tarbet is a very common village name in this part of the world)

 

Tighnabruaich (Tie-na-brew-i ch(as in Loch)) at the south of the Cowal Peninsular, a very pretty Victorian resort on the Kyles of Bute - excellent sailing and there are first class eateries at The Kilfinnan Hotel, a wonderful traditional Scottish Inn, the sort of place where wellies, dog leads and fishing rods trip you up in the porch and if you want a drink you help yourself and put your name in the book...I've even set and lit the fire in the bar at this place. The food is splendid - lots of seafood as you would expect and game/beef/lamb. There is a Bistro at Otterferry (5 miles west of Tighnabruaich, a wonderful spot where the old Cowal ferry used to cross to Kintyre. 5 miles north of Otterferry is Castle Laughchlan, the seat of the Maclaughchlan clan, a small enclave surrounded by Campbell Lands, You can rent a holiday appartment here, in the castle and there are plenty of cottages around. Near the castle is a wonderful restaurant called the Inver Cottage, a tea room during the day but at night easily the best restaurant in the area, reasonable and known by the locals and not the guidebooks. The owners discourage critics and are usually fully booked so book ahead. Again, wonderful seafood/game/lamb/beef...my favourite is Scallops the size of your ears sauteed in pernod butter followed by Bradan Rost - Hot Smoked Salmon Steak with a horseradish hollandaise, roast chateuxbriand with new potatoes, british cheeses and cranachan and kistle (redfruit compote with whipped cream infused with toasted oatmeal)) for pud....

 

Inverary or Inverara' as the locals call it is a pretty georgian Town on Loch Fyne, a bit more touristy but relatively civilised.

 

Lochgoilhead is a great location for a holiday with kids with numerous lodges for rent and things to do - good for watersports (no...not the german kind of watersports).

 

All in all I can't recommend Cowal enough - best of all you rarely if ever get tourist coaches as it is off the main routes - it is also a short hop fromn Glasgow Airport - 8 miles form the ferry to Dunoon so excellent for weekends from the south. Many of my freinds come up to the Highlands for weekends form London and head for the Cairngorms or Invernesshire- the thing is that the highlands are diagonal and you don't have to go as far north as that.

[gricer]

The six-wheel amphibious shite is a Crayford Argo. A most excellent contraption, controlled by two levers one of which drives the left-side and one the right side. You can make one set of wheels go forward and the other go backward, so it just spins on its axis. Much more fun than a "let's off-road" 4x4.

[cort16]

That looks like good fun. The thing about living in Scotland is you're never dissapointed when it rains as you're fully expecting it anyway.

[M'coli]

The Autoshite Widows Association AGM

 

It would take a quair bucket to fancy any of that lot!

 

Top trip, there Scooters, it's a shame the Sherpa's on the market.

[barefoot]

Don't give up on the kids in the Sherpa yet.

 

We have friends who take (apparently) younger* kids than yours in VW T2's

 

* I know nothing about children

[scooters]

Don't give up on the kids in the Sherpa yet.

 

We have friends who take (apparently) younger* kids than yours in VW T2's

 

* I know nothing about children

 

sadly the fiscal pressures may well force us to....doing some juggling!

[cort16]

[scooters]

 

 

LOL!

 

but you've mis-spelled SHERPAZ!

[scooters]

 

 

LOL!

 

but you've mis-spelled SHERPAZ!

 

 

this is one of the funniest of thoise 'old photos that get turned into a card' the fact that these horrendous harridans believe that they are tempting to any sort of man is side splitting! Mind you , if youy had been in the Kentuky wilderness dodging bears and trapping badgers for 5 months - maybe they do look ok after a skin full of rotgut!

[dieselnutjob]

I did query the wisdom of putting us n the 'first off' position! It could be a long afternoon for those behind us!

More people to push?

[worldofceri]

Thanks for posting this. Reminds me of my honeymoon! We went up to this part of the country in our old Bedford. Here's us on a (different) Dunoon ferry.

 

 

Loch Eck is fecking beautiful and I know what you mean about driving the roads; I rounded a corner somewhere south of Inveraray to face a Focus approaching on the wrong side of the road at high speed! I stood on the brakes, locking the rears, which was scary in itself. In actual fact we were nowhere near colliding but I still had to pull over for a bit to calm my nerves...