Quiff heads north to Scotland..

more coming today now mand at work and I have complete usage of the laptop..


Dizzy... the Harry Hill line made me laugh out loud.. ace..

Originally Posted by Quiff Wichard

loveerrly comfy lodge B and B - reccomended..

Cant believe you parked the bike in the living room!

Monday mornin - up at 7 30 to get a ticket for ferry .. breakfast then on ferry to Skye for the half 9 crossing of 20 minutes.. bit of a dreary day but brightened up..

note our bikes in the same places and Pete and lissa and numbers and raving davies when they crossed some days later..






see this statue- remember it for later.




arriving at Skye





we rode up to Broadford and got some very expensive petrol.. then on the advice of Indi photo hung a left for 15 miles down a single track for the "best cake ever" and a hot chocolate with a free jug of frothy milk.. to top up... we got there after a lovely ride with small roaqds, passing places, sheep , switchbacks, bridges .. and about 40 minutes and it was Closed !!

one around the corner was open though .. and there was a queue.. !







lovely little coffee shop with flowers in the buoys outside..





all that way for cake and they had massive coffee cake and lemon cake.. me dont like either ! agghhhh


saw this sign a lot




this man was feeding logs in one end of this machine and out came lovely chopped up firewood logs.. however he was on his own and about 8 miles from anywhere in any direction.. My health and safety alarm in my head was goin nuts ..





i mean - he not even got a high viz on > ?


amazing views though








Mand works for a major timber merchant and sources wood from this area so all these piles could be destined for her place..




matt and anita coming over the bridge about a squillion miles in the middle of nowhere..













so after much cake.. and drinks which was only about £8 .. ace.. we headed back and shot up through Broadford to portree.. on the way we saw a lovely bridge and a mad lady waving.. turned out to be a very midge eaten and soaking wet maria and Yorkie chris.. stopped.. some pics. had a chat then we went oor seperate ways.. bumped in to them in portree laters ..












this was the bridge near the distillery .. which it turned out was the end of our second loop of skye ..


off up to Portree we went- lovely roads to ride..

walked up the hill for a pic of Portree harbour






then back down and saw the yorkies again..

A german group pulled up .. on Gs's .. bear in mind this is monday after sundays defeat .. asking directions.. Matt sv said I cant hear you .. take off your helmet.. german took off helmet.. took out ear plugs asked directions..Matt said I dont know I am not local.. .. ha class. ! na he was friendly and pointed them in the right direction.. I think..


we were crossing the road on a zebra crossing and nearly got knocked over by a black car .. it was Haggis !! coincidence or what ? I think he is a taxi driver as the Ducati riding skye man was in the back..


A short discussion whether to do skye loops clockwise or anti.. and we were off again..

oh it had gone quite sunny now.. and was nice.. ..


not long in to the ride and we dropped on the viewpoint here with small waterfall and jurassic claims..

now. mand has massive feet- size 8 .. but look at the size of those footprints...














got asked by some chinese if there was a petrol station nearby .. I didnt know.. I mean fancy coming to skye to tour with no petrol.. ! they must have passed through broadford. cos we saw them later on in a village further north ..




Skye is beautiful worth a visit .. at least once in your life..








Matt and Anita coming down in to UIG on a nice bend..


stopped at Uig for a coffe break and more cake..

little red coffee shop.. opposite the ferry ..
had very nearly the same cake etc as at the previous cake shop that was £8..

and it was Matts turn to pay ..


£17 !!!!!!!!!!!!! ..........



fekinn unlucckkkeeee

[Luckypants]

Originally Posted by Quiff Wichard

i mean - he not even got a high viz on > ?

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Mand works for a major timber merchant and sources wood from this area so all these piles could be destined for her place..

I so want one them machines, makes cutting firewood a great game! Me and Mand might have to talk about wood....

I was slightly confused as to where we were and why we had passed the castle.. turned out we hadnt it was another town with a wee castle and similar name and my sat nav was goin nuts cos there about 3 Uigs..

Matt sorted us out with his calmness and Anita's brains and we headed off again..












I mean.. £20 quids worth of petrol.. well £30 if you buy it in Broadford.! and you can get right round Skye and see stuff like this.. it was like an oil painting.. so many shades of green and blue and purples..














lovely ride round and before we knew it we were ready to cross the Skye bridge. stopped on top for views.. WOW











love this pic >>>







only when I took this dod I realise Matt had graffiti'd my bike in the dirt.



and drawn a "willy" on the other side..










plan then was to stop at Eilleen Donnell?? castle and then head to the furthest point west in the Uk.. which proved to be an adventure..

incidentally we went to the castle on Skye but you cant see it .. unless you pay- we even rode down the side road to the bay to try get a view.. nope.. as we approached it we spotted Pete n lissa and raving and numbers all leaving.. maybe they saw us coming !>.

Dunvegan castle I think it is..

Skye was lovely and massive .. a lot bigger than i thought.. Highly reccomended to anyone.

Eileen Donan

We went to Dunvegan Castle but it was shut anyway, too early haha. Gorgeous place.

so.. Eilleen Dover ha .. Donan (ta miss YC) castle.. nice.. was about 6pm now I think so no tourists no coaches .. last year we stopped and it was heaving..

this was just peaceful.. and lovely..










Matt finally catches me up.. ha











certainly the best time to go.. if I go again I will make sure it is 6 ish.. cos you can jump the wall and walk down the bridge ..

plus then you have the road to Fort william / spean bridge etc with lovely views and sweeping roads and sights like this..
















stopped and Glen Garry viewpoint..





and .. as not seen one yet on any pics.. here it is..


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and lunge..