Jun 27, 2018 -- 11:27PM, breadnbutter wrote:

Had never heard of Plocton until last year ,place keeps cropping up in convos  ,think its that 500 route thing,foreign  dude I know told me he was going there in March /April  I told him to wrap up but he suggested it was palm trees a postcard picture place ,he nearly got stuck there with the snow and done same thing ,drove up and went around sky ,Eileen Donan castle etc and back down in with one night stopover ,tried to tell him to go up past the Kyle to Ullapool (some ugly birds up thar ) and over to Inverness and come down A9 but he was having none of it rambled on about this route 500 thang ,was once fishing the River Moy on the east coast many years ago , but it was warm and dry and one night we drove to ullapool for a plate of scampi on a fri night ,thar was music ale and birds (ugly wans ) and I stayed for the weekend ,

i went to a wedding at Eileen Donan castle. Amazing scenes, had been a beautiful morning, service was 2pm and
as we all walked over the bridge a mental thunderstorm broke. Crazy lightening, rolling thunder, torrents of rain.
Went on during the service, stopped & we all walked out to clear blue skies and the rest of the day was beautiful.
best thing was for whatever reason the thunderstorm seemed to clear the midges away.
Magical place. I think Dornie is the village? Great pub there with lots of live music. I like a bar where the staff
are way more drunk than the customers