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looking for a rough itinerary for a weeks tour of the isles
anyone done a tour there this year.
nobody?
Ton - what's "the isles"? I'll have butchers on the CTC route library if you give me a starting point. 🙂
Isle of purbeck...? you could do 50 laps of the island in that time frame.
[url= http://freespace.virgin.net/patrick.fox/hebrides/index.htm ]This sort of thing, assuming you mean the Hebrides[/url]
as a complete punt (I've done all 3 but in a car with an mtb)
how about Arran (truly a mini Scotland, glorious, lap round, across and a nice forestry road - in fact we're planning another week there next year) ferry N Tarbert then over to Islay (whiskey/eagles) and Jura (scenery, hills, whirlpool, scenery, not much else), looping back to Arran (or could go up to Oban. ) Arran is a popular cycling place - not sure about Islay/Jura (Islay is the sort of island where you get a hire car cheap as it's running on 3)
Crinan Canal (slightly further N Tarbert is a GEM) but I think the whle Mull of Kinytre area is nothing special, so probably not worth the detour.
for a 'tour' with a difference http://www.savethepuffer.co.uk/holidays.htm
Is there a good resource for routes in Scotland which have reasonable off road touring. Not extreme!!
I have done several Sustrans and now fancy a little more adventure but finding routes is proving quite hard.
[quote=Basil ]Is there a good resource for routes in Scotland which have reasonable off road touring. Not extreme!!
I have done several Sustrans and now fancy a little more adventure but finding routes is proving quite hard.
Not really. Go off-road in Scotland (and away from Sustrans) and you tend to end up on some fairly committed routes. I did a wee Coast-to-Coast on fairly easy stuff here: http://www.blog.scotroutes.com/2011/09/c2c-part-1.html
Some other routes that you might want to consider can be found here:
http://www.offroadadventures-online.com/