Day 10 – Balmacara to Durness – 244 Miles.

It would seem that even indoors the midges can still strike! Another set of bites had appeared overnight! Our first stop was the pretty Eilean Donan castle – sitting on a small peninsular into the Loch.














We then took the road towards Applecross, which was an incredibly narrow and twisty piece of tarmac – I'm sure the views would have been stunning, if we weren't in the middle of a cloud! We stopped at the Flower Tunnel cafe for a coffee and a bacon roll.

The rain eased slightly as we headed to Ullapool. It seemed every biker there wanted petrol at the same time – as there we 8 bikers trying to use the 4 pumps at the same time!

From Ullapool, we took the back road through Lochinvar, along some more narrow roads that had some great bends, but there was a great deal of gravel heaped in the middle, which makes riding really difficult. In fact Rupert and I both had a scary moment when we thought we were going to end up in the peat bog next to the road! Thankfully, we managed to avoid disaster!

A short distance north took us towards Durness, our destination for the day – on the way we came across another biker who had left the road and damaged his bike. He and his companion both seemed OK and were waiting for the breakdown recovery.

Durness has a nice camp site, that seemed a suitable spot to spend the night. Tomorrow will see us tick off 3 more destinations on our list – Cape Wrath, Dunnet Head and John O'Groats.