I have officially embraced middle age! At the age of 36 I may be to young to do this but family circumstances mean I have to take my dogs on holiday this year and therefore our usual sun holiday is not possible. We looked at renting a motor home type thing but it was upwards of £1000 a week :shock: so decided to look for a decent second hand caravan for around the same price that we could use through the summer as well as our tour round north Scotland in august.
I'm basically looking to see if anyone on the forum has one and can recommend good sites around Scotland or has any ideas for 'must see' stop offs to help me come up with a good round trip later in the year. Really looking for sites or places we can stop (legally!) in nice areas with good views and on the quieter side, not anywhere to big or busy, just somewhere we can relax and walk the dogs and I can maybe squeeze in a few hours fishing! Any suggestions welcome, cheers folks
These are in lovely spots - and there is fishing!
http://www.portabhaigh.co.uk/ (http://www.portabhaigh.co.uk/)
http://shorecaravansite.yolasite.com/ (http://shorecaravansite.yolasite.com/)
Alex
Don't miss Arisaig. One of the nicest areas for views with plenty of sites along the shoreline and all sorts of fishing to be had nearby. :wink:
pm sent :wink:
Yip, all good suggestions. Arisaig is a definate on the hit list. The more northerly ones will be held in reserve for the big trip. Keep em coming :)
Ps if anyone has any experience of heading to any of the islands with a caravan id be interested to hear your thoughts on that, cheers folks
Quote from: Lochan_load on May 04, 2015, 10:44:38 PM
Ps if anyone has any experience of heading to any of the islands with a caravan id be interested to hear your thoughts on that, cheers folks
you might find that a boat is a better option....
Sorry Dave I'm very new to this :lol:
Quote from: haresear on May 04, 2015, 10:06:07 PM
These are in lovely spots - and there is fishing!
http://www.portabhaigh.co.uk/ (http://www.portabhaigh.co.uk/)
http://shorecaravansite.yolasite.com/ (http://shorecaravansite.yolasite.com/)
Those are indeed lovely spots, but I'd think twice about towing a caravan along that tortuous single trachk road to Achilitbuie.
You would not be popular! :lol:
Quote from: admin on May 05, 2015, 06:45:08 PM
Those are indeed lovely spots, but I'd think twice about towing a caravan along that tortuous single trachk road to Achilitbuie.
You would not be popular! :lol:
I know a guy who towed a 'van from the Inverpolly road to Lochinver :shock: He did it working on the basis that there was no way he would meet anyone equally crazy enough to be doing the same.
Alex
That's the best campsite I've stayed at as well. The pub at the entrance is good too.
ideal facilities for a Fisher or a family.
Quote from: admin on May 05, 2015, 06:45:08 PM
You would not be popular! :lol:
:lol: I've become one of those folk I always moan about!
If it's similar to that lochinver road it could be a test of my pretty poor towing skills but there's a couple of lochs I have marked on my ordinance survey up there so the buggers will just have to wait :crap
If you intend towing a caravan get yourself a Grandpa Broon bunnet and you might just get away with it :lol:
A set of blinkers and some earplugs might be handy as well!
Came up behind a caravan on the M8 toddling along at 40MPH. Pulled out to pass him and the van was eighteen feet long at least. As I came along side I looked over and the driver was an elderly guy, grey hair and shirt sleeves rolled up. The passenger, obviously his wife, was knitting...........................he was driving a Rolls Royce :)
We got a caravan for the first time last after a taster of hiring a mobile home for a week in 2010.
A decent site and not too far away from you is Milton of Fonab at Pitlochry. Right beside the tummel. Salmon tickets can be bought from the site but trout tickets can be bought from in the town which is only a few minutes walk away. Ideal place to cut your teeth on the caravan.
There is a fish and chip van which sits outside the site some nights. Good pubs and restaurants in the town. Lots of folk take their dogs walking down the river bank.
There is the Killin site but for fishing the river is no good for the fly. Plenty of places around about for fishing in the area though and worth taking the drive over to Glen Lyon to fish the river of the lochs.
I'm taking the caravan up to Mallaig in August for a long weekend so I'm hoping to get some fishing in there.
I'll maybe look at heading up to Scourie next year for a week.
Billy
Sounds good and not as far as most of the places I want to go, I like the look of the tummel, is the trout fishing any good?
I didn't try it as i was there just out of season but talking to a few guys on the site they said the trout fishing was pretty good sport.
Nice water all along that stretch.
Handy as well for the enchanted forest thingy at the end of the year. Pubs were jumping and the main street was all lit up right through to Christmas.
We were in two pubs over the weekend and there was live music in both of them.
I,m heading over to Lagganbeg at loch lomond not this weekend but the next. Not to far from you but I reckon you'll be looking at sites a bit further away.
I have booked a boat for four hours fishing on the loch and I'll get my parents up for lunch-a-la-fresco.
Billy
Quote from: Lochan_load on May 05, 2015, 10:10:39 PM
:lol: I've become one of those folk I always moan about!
If it's similar to that lochinver road it could be a test of my pretty poor towing skills but there's a couple of lochs I have marked on my ordinance survey up there so the buggers will just have to wait :crap
Just go for it. Many years ago my mother, having recently passed her test, bought a caravan.
First trip from home, near Methven, was to Dirleton, second trip took in Poolewe and Achiltibuie. We parked at the outlet from Loch Raa, where there is now a no camping sign! She only did forward and drove from parking place to parking place. If perchance we had to reverse we just unhitched and my sisters and I would just push the caravan back to the last passing place. Highly irresponsible no doubt and probably helped by the fact there were four females in the car we never had any aggro. Even had the odd driver come to help!
South Uist - did that too - parked for two weeks by the graveyard at Daliburgh, and Loch Hallan. :roll:
Some of the best holidays of my life - but I'm not sure you'd get away with it these days!
My wife , who is not the outdoorsey type, has really taken to it.
I think it was the trip to Scourie last year in the big tent. She loved the scenery but wanted a bit more comfort.
Its really knocked to my fishing plans for this year. I had planned to do more than ever this year but it looks unlikely.
Billy
I love the idea of just parking up next to a beach or loch with it but I'm pretty sure places you can do it are few and far between these days :( like the idea of uist in the van but not sure the wife would be keen on the travel only for me to disappear most of the time :x
Billy loch lomonds a bit old hat to us now we walk the dogs there most days :lol: In contrast to you I think it'll give me a chance to get to loads of places I've wanted to go for ages, won't get to spend as much time fishing as I do when away myself but should hopefully get a good variety of places. Can always do some recon and head back to the best places myself ;)
Port a Bhaigh is fantastic!