Pikey, It's the Crinan canal, Lochgilphead is the other end of it, cuts off Kintyre for boats.

Can work that in if do extended route via Oban down coast to Inveraray which is a great road did it a few years ago on scooter and other week in car but going other way .Be a longish day but Crown carvery across road from tlodge in Dumbarton so may make up for it

Britains most beautiful short cut it says good enough for me road runs along side it .If make Oban lunch stop cheap fuel there at Tesco works for me




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If you can make this Dave and come up here the night before you can stop here i am only 40 mins from Lymm so no early start
likewise you could stop here on the way home to.
Lyn. PS: already asked Pat and got the OK

Its worth a trip just to see Lyns shed

Lyn, Very kind of you, that could be a good idea, please don't put your self out, I often have to sleep downstairs with the dogs at the moment, my Labrador is nearly 14 years old and we get problems with her. So if you could knock up a kennel, it will be home from home.
BTW, I've sold the NC, and got a Deauville, but if we get heavy rain forecast, I could put my old CB250 in the back of the Berlingo and use that.
Looking forward to meeting a fellow, gods poor orphan. We could educate the others on OH, as we ride along. Bet you still look up.
Thank Pat for me,
Regards,
Dave
P.S. Booked in at the 3 D's.

No probs Dave, e-mail me when you need directions, Oh! Pat has two moggies BTW a normal skinny feline and her sister Jaba the FAT

Tour tee shirt has arrived

Will you wear it inside out coming back?

I need to get one. Just about anywhere's north from where I am!

It will be in dirty washing on the way back LOL

The Crinan canal stirred a memory. The "Para Handy" stories were about the "Vital Spark", a Clyde puffer. These tiny steamboats were like those vans that used to tour housing estates selling anything and everything. They took coal, cement, groceries and mail to the Western Isles and wee villages without road access. They would simply sail up onto the beach if there was no harbour. Here's the late John Grieve, who played the "ship"s engineer/cook who hated the sea!

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