Morning in Ullapool |
I caught up with the others while they were having a rest at a view point. As I'd been driving along a number of "classics" (Morgans, jags & the like) had gone the other way, some waved, some didn't, then I turned off their route & found the other Rogue Runners in a scenic lay by. As I pulled in an old Lancia (or possibly Alfa Romeo) pulled into the same car park - they were lost & were supposed to be a support car for the classic car run, so we looked over their car & pointed in the right direction.
With appologies to Red27 for using her pic - just too good to miss |
Also at this point the immobiliser gremlin raised it's ugly head again, we tried everything that had seemed to work before, turning the key on & off, carefully NOT looking at the indicator lamp, but alas nothing worked, so GB called the man that had installed it & with some assistance from a more "agile" member of the party, the gremlin was found & exorcised.
So we strapped in & traversed Scotland heading back to Doune. On the way we met
up with a couple of members of a Scottish seven club & again blatted some
of the route with them (& again they were overtaken by our man). The sun showed its face & the scenery was
again well up to the task, though not as mountainous as yesterday. We accompanied them to a nice coffee stop & then they went on their way.
Westfields both |
It was while we were coming through some hilly farmland that
I happened across a long line of traffic following a couple of vans pulling
caravans. As the road wound through the valleys, overtaking opportunities came
up & I took two or three cars at a time. Until I overtook an Audi S4, now
Audi drivers have something of a reputation & this one objected to being
passed, so tried to close the gap & flashed his lights as I pulled in. I
shrugged & overtook the next few cars when a chance came up. At the next
village both vans turned off along with most of the cars behind me – except for
the Audi.
At the end of the village I accelerated up to the speed limit (yes really) & the Audi came flying passed & pulled away - thus reassuring me it wasn’t an un-marked police car – I wasn’t about to get involved in a drag race & soon the road began to twist again, so I caught up. Then in a final irony there was another queue of traffic behind two vans as the road wound into a valley with a few overtaking opportunities ……………. never saw the Audi again.
At the end of the village I accelerated up to the speed limit (yes really) & the Audi came flying passed & pulled away - thus reassuring me it wasn’t an un-marked police car – I wasn’t about to get involved in a drag race & soon the road began to twist again, so I caught up. Then in a final irony there was another queue of traffic behind two vans as the road wound into a valley with a few overtaking opportunities ……………. never saw the Audi again.
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