Nessie!
I'm off up to Loch Ness at the weekend, and I've just noticed that if you search around Loch Ness on Google Maps the little street view man turns into a wee monster:
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Varmint, Mon 6 Sep 2021, 22:19,
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Enjoy!
Dores beach is great, as long as you catch it when the local teenage fuckwits aren't littering it with empty bottles and pringles tubes.
Inverness is a depressing shithole. There's a nice woodland walk in Culloden, known locally as 'The Gruffalo Walk' due to the carvings and wood sculptures done by a local artist along the path.
The council recently had to erect anti-vandalism measures around the pieces to dissuade the natives from defacing/setting fire to them, which detracts from the experience somewhat, however.
Nairn is proper lovely if the weather is nice and the Links aren't too busy. Nice walk from the beach along the river to Cawdor Castle if you've got a few hours to spare, too.
Drumnadrochit and Fort Augustus are alright, but you'll be fucking sick of Nessie after about 4 minutes.
If you insist on going north of the Kessock Bridge, then steer clear of any settlements on the A9. They get progressively and drastically more grim as you travel Northwards. Wick is basically the result of David Lynch summoning the spirit of H.P. Lovecraft and asking him for advice on town planning.
Definitely visit Glencoe on your way back down the road, though. The Ballachulish Quarry is significantly more scenic than it sounds and the Lochan north of Glencoe Village is fucking spectacular.
The whole place is just bloody lovely, really. Apart from that house where that bloke stayed. Besides that, though...
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My very own Trip Advisor!
Thanks for the suggestions, but I'm only passing through on my bike. This is what I'm doing:
ridewithgps.com/routes/23232135
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Varmint, Mon 6 Sep 2021, 23:19,
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Oh, nice! The Great Glen stretch of that route is fantastic.
There's an absolutely cracking Bicycle Cafe in Inverness called Velocity. Very friendly bunch. Enjoy!
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I spotted that a couple of weeks ago as I was heading to Scotland
It also turns into a tiny Queen at Buckingham Palace and a UFO at Area 51
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Excellent!
Just had a look at those. The Queen seems a bit temperamental as to whether she appears or not, and the UFO only appears if you abduct the little man.
There must be others.
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Varmint, Tue 7 Sep 2021, 11:55,
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There's a list here
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_Easter_eggs#Pegman
Not that I can get many of them to work.
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monkeon schmonkeon, Tue 7 Sep 2021, 13:16,
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I'll never forgive the Scottish for inventing golf
Stupid fucking game played by utter fucking cunts.
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You're missing the benefits
Golfers are:
- easily identifiable by their clothing and thus easily avoided
- have to put up with club rules and customs that they don't particularly like
- tend to drink at the club bar so staying away from other pubs/bars
- usually buy and maintain larger cars in order to transport expensive golf bag and clubs
- create lonely golf 'widows'
- can frequently be beat by talented players who show little or no interest in purchasing expensive golf clubs thus infuriating some of those who do
As a bonus they spend a lot of money trying to improve their play or look like their golfing heroes which keeps non-golfers in work.
I mean I'm not saying all of the above was planned but its not all bad.
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I'll give you 1-3.
4 is a benefit? Seems like the environmental impact of golf is worsened by golfers with bigger cars.
5, 6 & 7 don't really benefit anybody.
Gowf is pish.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Wed 8 Sep 2021, 16:38,
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Nope still looks like a man to me
goo.gl/maps/fiKz9rTwZhg3bKTK6
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buffet_the_appetite_slayer ٩(●̮̃•)۶ jacked in to the ICE on, Wed 8 Sep 2021, 17:18,
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