Where are you travelling from? I always looked at Services via Google Earth which shows caravan/MH areas. But should these be full its quite acceptable to park in the HGV areas too.
Ensure your fuel tank is brimmed before departure. Most cars towing will be able to achieve 250 miles before a drink. But please tell us what you have so we can be more accurate.
It's not difficult to search the internet for filling stations near motorway junctions and to compare their current price with "petrol prices" website - and use Google Earth to check you can get in and out with the caravan.
At least two garden centers in my area have height restrictions on the entrance to the carparks which have stopped the travellers from invading them. So do use Google street view to check the entrances.
However it is the tourists that drink all the whisky and cause mayhem thus keeping people at the distillery busy and the police in employment!Roads in the Highlands can also be narrow and in many places just single track with passing places. Worse though are the tourists
We don't want any more tourists visiting Scotland, let's keep it to ourselves.If you consider towing through Scotland and particularly the Highlands be aware that filling stations can be few and far apart. Also consider that some of the roads, Glen Coe and the A9 for example can have a high accident rate often resulting in road closures and the possibility of a long detour. So watch the fuel guage.
Roads in the Highlands can also be narrow and in many places just single track with passing places. Worse though are the tourists
It's worth remembering that the drink-drive limit is lower in Scotland than the rest of the UK but any resulting ban applies to the whole of the UK (and presumably the EU as well)However it is the tourists that drink all the whisky and cause mayhem thus keeping people at the distillery busy and the police in employment!
Profound apologies but you are going to get two more tourists and their dog in June 2024. Avoid Boat of Garten and a 100 mile radius and particularly the upper reaches of the Findhorn if it will cause too much stress🤣🤣🤣
No one mentioned drinking and driving and it was a light hearted comment? Don't distilleries in Scotland do bus tours to and from their location?
The distilleries include a dram at the end of the tour but do give the option of taking away a miniature instead.
Are you staying at what used to be the Boat of Garten campsite? It's been converted to holiday homes now and no longer take tourers or tents. The village is lovely and the Strathspey heritage railway has a station there.
Could you delete the write up about Findhorn as we don’t like sharing the location and its attractions. But it is rather special. We park up at the end of the public road then walk past the shooting lodge following the river, until we decide either to cross the river over a bridge or carry on along the track. When we get back to the car we drive back down the public road for about a mile then park up in a small ex quarry, where we cook bacon sarnies and set our chairs to just keep watch on the skies. A magical place.
Hope those tourists are good at reversing because it wont be caravaner doing reversing.If you consider towing through Scotland and particularly the Highlands be aware that filling stations can be few and far apart. Also consider that some of the roads, Glen Coe and the A9 for example can have a high accident rate often resulting in road closures and the possibility of a long detour. So watch the fuel guage.
Roads in the Highlands can also be narrow and in many places just single track with passing places. Worse though are the tourists
A lot of them are rubbish but some caravaners have to reverse. Too many cars, Motorhomes or those towing will go past a passing place even though they have room to stop in it. I make them reverse.
LNG will be banned before those two new CMAL/Calmac ferries get into service - Scottish ferries are in a helluva mess, far too many out of use with breakdowns.Findhorn Valley - not to be confused with Findhorn near Forres. Now its the new site of the Dounereay spent Nuclear Fuel Roads storage facility.
Boat of Garten - planning permission for two large landfilll sites and LPG storage facility and Open Prison.
Applecross - planning permission for 1000 200m wind turbines and LNG storage facility for the two new CMAL ferries.
Altnaharra - Twinned with Porton Down.
Achiltibuie Ross and Cromarty - construction underway of USAF B1 Bomber base.
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