Member Since: 26 Oct 2013
Location: Argyll
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Better keep an eye on the traffic reports for tomorrow too due to the UCI cycling in and around GlasgowCurrently 2009 Disco 3 SE, 2013 MY D4 HSE and 2016 D4 SE
Previously:
TD5 Defender 110 CSW (230k miles)
300TDi Disco 1 (289k)
4 RR Classics (300-350k each, 2 manual, 2 auto)
110 V8 CSW (220k)
S3 109 hi cap pickup (ex RN)
S2A 88 Safari SW with lpg conversion (bloody lethal)
4th Aug 2023 6:57 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
Member Since: 11 May 2006
Location: Off again! :-)
Posts: 72790
We’re heading sauff on Sunday and cross their path on the M80. Luckily they are on a B road. Note they’re closing the new Forth Bridge to traffic, not having the Lycra lot go over the old one!
4th Aug 2023 7:16 pm
KPTV8
Member Since: 05 Feb 2012
Location: Itinerant
Posts: 136
Shucks, that mention of the Lockerbie tragedy brings it back. I had married in autumn 1988, we drove north to Scotland for Christmas. The M74 at Lockerbie was reduced to the west-side lane only, there was a blackened mess at the edge of the town and still the kerosene jet-fuel smell as when near an airport.
We knew a farming family in Scottish Borders, some farmers as far as 20 miles away had been finding bits of wreckage and worse.
Years later I recall the outrage in USA when Scotland's justice minister announced that al-Megrahi would be released from prison upon diagnosis of a terminal illness.
I read about a guy had watched a jumbo heading north over Milton Keynes at dusk on 21/12/88, he realised later it must have been the Pan-Am flight carrying the bomb. In later years I lived in M.K. and sure enough on some days several of those huge jets would head north climbing over us on their great-circle routes to USA and Canada. Mostly smaller twin-jets these days I guess.
There's now an industrial site close to the M74 at Lockerbie with a very tall flue-stack, can see it many miles away. The plume atop the flue column is always pure white, I always think of it as a monument and tribute to the bombing victims and their families.
5th Aug 2023 3:17 am
dunton10
Member Since: 23 Dec 2006
Location: SUTTON COLDFIELD, WEST MIDS
Posts: 208
bdc6570- please update us as to how you get on once back. Best bits, things not to miss etc.
I'm thinking myself about a tour around the far north in 2024. I'll deffo be leaving the caravan at home this time though. thinking of hiring a van conversion for part of the holiday, possibly 14 days.
I know there are lots of people on here with great knowledge of the area and there are lots of posts to read from members who have travelled the routes previously.
Ive already pmd NC500 to seek his advice.
Early days but the planning is all part of the journey. Nothing compared to DSL though who I note is once again off on one of his adventures. I do like reading his posts and seeing his photos inc the "odd" food one!Currently 2015 D4 SE Tech, Corris Grey
RLD Protector, led interior lights, timed climate, towing equipment
Previously
2006 D3 S
2001 TD5
1996 Shogun LWB
1989 Range Rover TDVM
28th Aug 2023 6:31 pm
Oxford-boy
Member Since: 07 Sep 2015
Location: Oxford
Posts: 1063
You'll also find Pistonheads is very good and up to date on all matters touring the North of Scotland (and many other places tbh)..
Have fun planning and then holidaying!Jim
2014 Discovery 4 XXV SDV6 Causeway Grey
2016 Discovery 4 HSE Lux SDV6 Loire Blue - now gone
29th Aug 2023 8:46 am
NC500
Member Since: 18 Sep 2017
Location: On the NC500
Posts: 497
If ever anyone needs any truthful information about the NC500 and not the BS often posted on social media and forums, just ask me!
I live on it and drive it every week between March and October.
29th Aug 2023 9:16 am
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
Member Since: 11 May 2006
Location: Off again! :-)
Posts: 72790
dunton10 wrote:
I do like reading his posts and seeing his photos inc the "odd" food one!
And it’s almost lunch time!! Thinking Caesar’s Salad with lobster and steak. Well would be rude not to!
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29th Aug 2023 9:18 am
dunton10
Member Since: 23 Dec 2006
Location: SUTTON COLDFIELD, WEST MIDS
Posts: 208
Hang on, hang on. That doesn’t count del.
A photo of the menu just doesn’t cut it.Currently 2015 D4 SE Tech, Corris Grey
RLD Protector, led interior lights, timed climate, towing equipment
Previously
2006 D3 S
2001 TD5
1996 Shogun LWB
1989 Range Rover TDVM
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Thinking Caesar’s Salad with lobster 
