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The North Coast 500 – through the Highlands on four wheels
The North Coast 500 is a route I’m sure I’ll remember for a long time. And this time, not just because of the scenery. Driving the NC500 can be quite an experience in itself. In many places, the road becomes really narrow and turns into a single-track road, meaning there’s only one lane for cars travelling in both directions. Every so often, you’ll find small passing places, where you have to pull in to let an oncoming car through. Sometimes you have to get a bit creative, and if you miss the passing place at the wrong moment, there’s nothing for it but to reverse. On top of that, there…
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NC500 – far North Scotland
The NC500, or The North Coast 500, is one of Scotland’s most famous road trips – around 830 kilometres through the northern Highlands, following the coastline and winding through mountains, small villages, beaches, cliffs and places where it’s sometimes hard to believe you’re still in the UK. The more miles I covered along this road, the more I felt as though Scotland was slowly disconnecting from the rest of the world. The landscape became increasingly rugged, wild and empty. Larger towns disappeared, the roads grew narrower, and instead of more buildings, there were cliffs, heather-covered moorland, mountains and sea. And that was when the part of the route I had…
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The North Coast 500 – through the Highlands on four wheels
