Another short section of our A861 main road near Resipol. How beautiful is that? It's also another bit of windy road, a very inconvenient place to meet a Lochs and Glens holiday coach with front and rear steering wheels to help it get round the bends
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I thought I must get out and nail those autumn colours before they are blown or washed away, so today I took a long loop to get some diesel....that's a 100+ mile round trip to fill up my tank. Thankfully, not all the leaves have gone from the more sheltered parts of Ardnamurchan. I wish I had had this photo to hand when trying to explain that the roads around us are 'windy'. Windy, as in not straight, and not as in blown about windy. But how do you explain to a foreigner when the spelling is precisely the same, but the pronunciation and meaning are so different? A picture would have helped. This is a little section of our A861 main road. I met a bunch of about a dozen Audi TT and BMW drivers from some "drivers club" trying to squeeze into one passing place yesterday. Knobs.
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Sanna: it is beautiful. I just don't know how to capture it's full beauty, apart from just to feel it. You climb a dune. The marram grass is blowing in the fresh onshore wind. And as you reach the crest, an expansive view, in front, off to the left and round to the right opens up in front of view. The sea sparkles across your vision, curling surf rushing in to the dark rocks, and splashing upwards in a dazzle of white as it strikes the shore. Behind you, and off in the distance little white cottages dot the view, against the dark, surrounding volcanic mountains. The air is fresh and salty, cool and invigorating, the sand beneath your toes fine and dry and sun warmed where it is sheltered from the wind..............Sannahhhh!
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I remember when the boys were young(er), that year after year they wanted a computer game upgrade. I'm sure the cost of living then was worse, as buying Christmas presents broke us every year. I shrivelled up at the thought of the cost of the latest Sony Playstation and games, but sometimes I was as enthusiastic as my sons to get the gemes out. I enjoyed the driving/racing games most, especially the rally ones: Colin McRae. I even constructed a full 'racing' cage out of wood and metal, incorporating a seat, and adjustable (for length) pedal box set and steering wheel. It made driving and sliding the car really realistic, and it was so good we had to get Grandpa (who even drove once in the Singapore GrandPrix back in the 1950's when it was a very different event to today's F1 Grand Prix). All was good until he decided to do a sudden 90 degree turn and sheered off the steering wheel.
Anyhow, I digress. There I was today taking the snaking road from Kilchoan out to the end of the Ardnamurchan Peninsula at Sanna beach, when it struck me what a wonderful rally stage it would make.
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On the Lochan na Dunaich forestry trail. Effie has just been called back into sight. "Err, what's up Dad?" she's saying. Being white makes it easier to track her down apart from when she is in a black, muddy bog or ditch. She loves bog snorkelling and probably deliberately gets filthy because she loves a warm soapy bath with bubbles (or bublez)
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