We arrived here after an hour and half drive from our last stop, an absolutely beautiful stop over, free day and night stop over but NO services, no water, no Chemical waste disposal and only a handful of bins.
You can park on gravel hard standing overlooking the canal with ducks and geese everywhere, the canal is a fairly busy waterway with some large boats up and down, it can get busy with dog walkers and picnickers but very quiet in the evening.
View overlooking the canal. Lovely views both leftAnd right
Lovely walks along the canal, you could also cycle if you wished.
We stopped on route to refill the LPG (GPL in France) and then headed here, the first place we stopped right by the canal is no longer an Aire, they have moved the official place to 50m down the road.
It’s now a gravel car park for Camping-Cars with rubbish bins, grey waste, chemical toilet waste and fresh water ( when working, currently not ) also EHU for 4hours is available for a charge ( also currently not working ).
There is a €5 charge per night but nobody appears to take the money nor was there anywhere indicated to go pay.
There is also a pharmacy and farm shop 200-300m from the Aire, the farm shop stocks all essentials as well.
Picnic tables and lovely fruit treesThe canal is just in front of the van but not overly visible Lovely long walks along the canal bank
We finally managed to get over to France again, its been 3 years and we have missed it dearly
We stayed at a Lovell CL called Page Farm about 10 mins from the tunnel, so came up Thursday night, an early start Friday morning meant being at the tunnel for around 7am ( our crossing was for 9:20) and was put on the next crossing (7:20) for no additional charge, very quick boarding and in France within 30 mins.
Lovely view from the town back across the Aire
We had a long drive down to Montherme, but it was worth it, just south of the Belgium border the town sits on the river Meuse, room for around 22 vans with fresh water but no Chemical Waste Disposal.
At a cost of €4 a night + 40c per person tax it was well worth it, EHU is available for €2.80 but the points are quite away from where you park on the waters edge so you will need a long lead.
The view along the water in front of the van going leftThe view along the water in front of the van going right
The town has plenty of shops and of course the obligatory Patisserie, plenty of walks up and down the river and even some bike hire if you desire.
Lovely views and walks along the river
All in all a fantastic Aire and one we will definitely visit again if out this way.
It’s so nice to be out in the motorhome again, the weather is nice, the sun is shining and it looks good for the weekend.
We are at Holiday Resort Unity @ Brean, not normally our kind of site but its very nice, quiet and we are tucked out the way in the yellow field, onsite there is entertainment, food, (Chinese, Indian, Fish & Chips ).
The pitches are hard standing with plenty of room, electric, water and grey waste at the pitch.
Toilets and showers seem roomy and clean, it seems a lovely site.
We left the cragg nice and early to head into Ullapool, there is a large free car park behind Tesco, also note there is a laundry service available on the right as you pull into the car park and well worth a visit to get all that washing done.
We headed into town to get a coffee and a wander with a view to stop at the SeaFood Shack for lunch, they open at 12 and by 11:30 had started queuing, we joined them at around 11:45 and they opened promptly at 12.
I ordered the haddock wrap for my wife and 6 langoustines for myself, while I was ordering Karen found the pop up Gin booth and had a taster.
We stopped at Ardmair Point Caravan & Camping park, £27.50 for the night, hard standing, EHU, Showers, Toilets, Washing up and CDP, amazing views across the water.
We left Kinlochbervie and headed south to Kylesku Bridge where we had tea and homemade cake for a mid morning stop.
At newton we branched off right on the B869 headed towards Clashnessie and Lochinver, the road was very narrow with some scary hills and bends, plenty of passing places and quiet roads enabled the wife to keep her eyes open most of the way, Clashnessie Beach was lovely.
We then headed into Lochinver but never stayed long as raining and couldn’t really find the right place to stop.
We continued on towards Ullapool and found a lovely stop over at Knocken Crag Nature reserve, a tarmac car park with toilets and fresh water set up out the of the way with amazing views over a loch and some great information regarding the rock formations.
We left Altnaharra and headed across NW along the A838, the midges were out in force so we barely stopped except for brunch tucked away overlooking Loch Stack.
Osprey or Eagle Nest
We arrived at one of our favourite stops Kinlochbervie, a night stop well worth a visit, £15 a night with EHU, £10 without or £5 if you just want to empty and top up.
Fresh water and CDP, bins and a very well stocked shop, the views across the harbour are fantastic, this plays fills up quick so I would aim to be here between 12 and 2 if you can, after that you may struggle.
We left Bonar Bridge and headed to Lidl at Tain to stock up, we then headed to Loch Fleet National Nature Reserve.
We were amazed at how many seals were lying on the sand bars, we counted 63 about 100 yards from where we were parked.
We had brunch and walked along the side of the loch taking photos.
We then headed to our night stop at Altnaharra Caravan and Motorhome Club site, right on the edge of Loch Naver, CDP, water and a small shop, NO toilets or showers.
Please note the water is pumped from underground and although I am assured it is safe to drink, looking like apple juice I decided not too.
We left Fortrose and headed north, just a short 1 hour drive to a lovely spot called Bonar Bridge, as you approach from the south there is a turning into the car park area on the right, there are concrete bays as you enter but if you go all the way through it turns to a gravel area right at the end and opens up into a viewpoint of the water and valley.
Amazing Views as we headed through the mountains down towards Bonar BridgeThe view from our Motorhome Window.
There are toilets here but currently closed, no facilities but the town is a very short walk across the bridge with conveniences store, take away and a pub.
We got up early to head down to the lighthouse for a spot of dolphin watching, we witnessed a few pairs breaking the service and a seal bobbing around but nothing spectacular, the view however was indeed gorgeous, the walk was about 20 mins to the point across the edge of the golf course.
After a well earned cooked breakfast we decided to walk into Rosemarkie, a 20 minute walk along quiet roads and through the Camping and Caravanning site on the waters edge, we stopped at a lovely coffee shop called Crofters, a nice selection of coffees, cakes and meals.
We walked down into the village and decided to walk to Fairy Glen Falls, the car park was only 3-5 minutes from the village centre but it was a long walk to the actual falls through gorgeous woodlands along the brook/river.
With over 20,000 steps under our belt we headed back to the van to moan about how much we ached and asking “is it bedtime yet”
