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[alpder]

The few snaps from a recent trip which do include the Mini. Even if only as one pixel.

 

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Skye heaving with mostly international crowds - so every 2-lane road has innumerable 'keep-left' arrows and signs. Of course, most roads don't have a 'keep-left' problem because they're single-track and/or not actually there, with [exaggeration alert] just a ribbon of pot-holes to help you to imagine where the tarmac might once have been in the landscape. But that will be the abiding memory which any Mini driver in Skye takes home with them: the enormous potholes.

 

1500 miles, 40+ hours driving, yet spotted just four Minis. Three of them Netherlands cars.

[Spider]

Awesome !

 

Looks a great outing / trip away. Fantastic scenery.

 

Interesting that of the other Minis you saw on the way most were from the Netherlands.

[Steam]

What an excellent trip, Looks like you had a great time.
Love the wooden teardrop matched to the woody wagon.

[Blumeanie]

What a lovely mini -on a great trip!
Perfect mini weather!
Thank you for posting pictures!

[68Deluxe]

Amazing, great setup!

[Designer]

Hi

 

I see the camper vans started to become more sociable.

 

Paddy

[MatthewsDad]

Skye is a magical place for a mini adventure. I guess the dry weather may have reduced midge attacks?

[cooperd70]

You couldn't have asked for a better window of agreeable weather! Quite a trip! Last time I was up there we had some snow and a lot of rain....we cheated as we're not in the mini. Driving a modern car on them there pot-holed roads was fine...if I'd have been in the mini I would have been stressed out dodging potholes and would have missed the fantastic scenery. The whole west coast is glorious.

Thanks for the photo-sharing and that your trip was a successful one, returning back to SW Wales in one piece 😎

[alpder]

Skye is a magical place for a mini adventure. I guess the dry weather may have reduced midge attacks?

Yeah, lucky with the weather. Even then, I delayed in the Lakes for a day on the way up, so as to miss some of Skye's more... impressive... weather. Every walk listed on WalkingScotland has four ratings: length, ascent, technical difficulty and, most importantly... bog-rating

 

Midges: departing at 6:30 on the last day (for a 7-hour drive down to the Lakes) there was no breeze, apart from that fanned up by the half-a-million beating midge-wings. I hitched up and zipped off with some enthusiasm.

 

Anyone going to Skye is well advised to go as early in the season as possible and to book any accommodation ahead... this year March would've been (unusually) good and probably midge-free but I couldn't get away. Last time I was there (on an April push-bike tour) I saw maybe two cars in a whole day of cycling. But that was before the bridge changed everything. Now, it is absolutely rammed with campervans and coach trips - cycling would be hell. And, of course, there are those midges which can only get worse as the season goes on.

 

Favourite moment of the trip: American family exit from a hired Nissan X-Trail. The 13-year-old marches up beside the Mini, points out incredulously that "I'm taller than this car. It's smaller than my garden ride-on toy car." When I showed her a pic of the 'caravan' it tows... blew her mind.

Edited by alpder, 08 May 2025 - 06:34 PM.