NW500

[GTRpilot]

Hoping to do this next year, 2 up anyone completed it, any recommendations for accommodation stops etc? 

[Nitty Gritty]

take an umbrella

[Lonewolf]

Congrats on being able to start a thread. 

[O.C.]

Congrats on being able to start a thread. 

does darning my sock count as a new thread Steve  ?         

[Lonewolf]

does darning my sock count as a new thread Steve  ?     

There are jokes, and then there are jokes. Yours falls into one of those categories, I shall leave it to you to decide which!! 

[O.C.]

There are jokes, and then there are jokes. Yours falls into one of those categories, I shall leave it to you to decide which!! 

        

[GTRpilot]

Congrats on being able to start a thread. 

Too kind 

[GTRpilot]

take an umbrella

Of course 

[Rynglieder]

Are you camping, looking for B&Bs or hotels?

Not sure if you are set on doing it as a circuit or breaking it into chunks from perhaps three locations... sometimes it's good to have a base if you are not riding to a schedule and on a paricularly wet day you can spend it in a bar and therefore dodge the expense of @Nitty Gritty 's umbrella hire charges.

If you have not sorted out dates it may be worth giving consideration to the last two weeks in August as the children are back in school in Scotland by mid-August so roads and accommodation are a bit less congested and you still have half a chance of decent weather.

Pete.

[Rusty]

I have just come back from doing that !!   !
8 nights camping up from the Sussex coast  and it was FAB .. wet but FAB ! I was going to bore you all with a day by day thread when I get around to finding the time.... but I shall do it for you and will make the effort in the next couple of days 

[Rynglieder]

I have just come back from doing that !!   !
8 nights camping up from the Sussex coast  and it was FAB .. wet but FAB ! I was going to bore you all with a day by day thread when I get around to finding the time.... but I shall do it for you and will make the effort in the next couple of days 

Please do, I for one like to hear of other's experiences on the road.

[GLA55Y]

Rusty
That would be great.

[GTRpilot]

Are you camping, looking for B&Bs or hotels?

Not sure if you are set on doing it as a circuit or breaking it into chunks from perhaps three locations... sometimes it's good to have a base if you are not riding to a schedule and on a paricularly wet day you can spend it in a bar and therefore dodge the expense of @Nitty Gritty 's umbrella hire charges.

If you have not sorted out dates it may be worth giving consideration to the last two weeks in August as the children are back in school in Scotland by mid-August so roads and accommodation are a bit less congested and you still have half a chance of decent weather.

Pete.

We are looking at B&B or hotels, and doing it all in one go with stop overs as we go. Thinking of September, but August is good to.

[Lonewolf]

I have done it numerous times in one fashion or another. The traditional route is Inverness, over to the West Coast, Applecross up to John O'Groats and then back to Inverness. However I am reading now that more people are choosing to go up the East Coast and do John O'Groats first and then head towards Applecross etc. The advantage of this is that unquestionably the West Coast is more visually appealing that the East Coast. So in other words, mile by mile the views just get better and better!

[Nitty Gritty]

I typed a load of stuff re N500 but couldn't post a word