From coast to coast, without using one public road... in a Merc more used to pootling around town
Driving across Scotland, for the most part, is not exactly an adventure. Admittedly there aren’t many motorways once you get north of Edinburgh and Glasgow and the M8, and the kind of roads further up tend to be smaller and more time-consuming. But nevertheless, traversing the northern part of the UK isn’t usually something that takes months of preparation to achieve.
The route from Cromarty Firth to Ullapool, to take an entirely specific example, is about 65 miles. On the A835, there might be a few slow moving tractors and views worth a few minutes’ contemplation, but generally, you can manage it in about an hour and a half. Strange then, that the same journey between the same two places recently took me two full days.
Because I didn’t use any actual roads.
From coast to coast, without using one public road... in a Merc more used to pootling around town
Driving across Scotland, for the most part, is not exactly an adventure. Admittedly there aren’t many motorways once you get north of Edinburgh and Glasgow and the M8, and the kind of roads further up tend to be smaller and more time-consuming. But nevertheless, traversing the northern part of the UK isn’t usually something that takes months of preparation to achieve.
The route from Cromarty Firth to Ullapool, to take an entirely specific example, is about 65 miles. On the A835, there might be a few slow moving tractors and views worth a few minutes’ contemplation, but generally, you can manage it in about an hour and a half. Strange then, that the same journey between the same two places recently took me two full days.
Because I didn’t use any actual roads.
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