Start the day with going up and over the Lecht to Tomintoul where we stop for breakfast at the old fire station cafe. Full of bacon & egg baps its over to Dufftown, Banff and into Portsoy on the coast. What a quant little place the old harbour area is - stopped for a coffee and mooched around for about an hour.
The Black Isle next to see the lighthouse at the point near Fortrose, then we double back to Inverness and down the east side of Loch Ness to Fort William. Now, I've been past the Commando Monument at Spean Bridge many times but never stopped - so today we do and it's a spectacularily clear evening with really clear views to Ben Nevis.
So far the weather has been reasonable and we've dodged the showers, Heading now for Glenuig via Glenfinnan, where we're staying at the Glenuig Inn. There's building work ongoing and the bunkhouse isn't ready so we have been upgraded to the holiday chalets and very nice they are too!! Downside is theres no draught beer only bottled. The other dodgy thing about Glenuig is the deep gravel on the car park - on a bike its like driving through sand with wheelspins everywhere and a bit disconcerting.
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