>>Many parts of NC500 are gridlocked. Folk in hired campers that they don't know how to drive. Or camping up in passing places.
The NC500 wasn't busy in May 2019, but we deliberately avoided the bank holiday weeks and school holidays as all retired people do, don't they?
Of the other tourists we did encounter (we went anti-clockwise in the hope that we wouldn't be part of a procession) I'd say half the oncoming motorhomers will actually drive past a passing place when they must have seen you coming, and you will end up reversing. Very few are bright enough or care enough to stop in or opposite a passing place which is not on 'their' side. Many will keep you behind for miles if you catch them up going in the same directionz, same with bimbling visitors in cars. The locals are usually going like the clappers, if I see one catching up I'm out of the way before they get to me.
We will spend more time in the area west of the Great Glen but TBH from the point of view of a tourist a prescribed, arbitrary route like that just creates worse overcrowding at peak periods and puts accommodation prices on the route up. On the other hand perhaps it benefits places off the route.
Shame really. It's the tourism paradox of course, visitors detract from the character and peace they seek in the places they visit.
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