{"id":3277,"date":"2016-10-05T22:49:42","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T21:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/?p=3277"},"modified":"2016-10-07T07:54:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-07T06:54:00","slug":"day-9-portgower-to-hatton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/?p=3277","title":{"rendered":"Day 9: Portgower to Hatton"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Day 9\u00a0 Portgower to\u00a0Delnies Woods\u00a0 77 Miles\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Total\u00a0 542 Miles<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Portgower<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By morning the weather had improved a bit:\u00a0 the rain had mostly stopped and there were blinks of sun.\u00a0 Time for a short walk with the dogs in Portgower before we set off, homeward bound.<\/p>\n

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Portgower<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This part of the route is more familiar to us and the A9 road is much improved.\u00a0 Gone were the single track roads, now we were in a race track with cars and vans and lorries.\u00a0Past Golspie with Dunrobin Castle and the infamous hilltop monument of the Duke of Sutherland on Ben Bhraggie, over the Dornoch\u00a0Bridge and past Invergordon and Alness.\u00a0 \u00a0We stopped but twice:\u00a0 once to let Mary vist a delightful wool shop, Kincraig Fabrics<\/a>, \u00a0in Brora which Ina had recommended, and then for a\u00a0sumptuous lunch at the Storehouse Restaurant (a regular stopping place for us on previous visits to the area. It is located on the shores of the Cromarty Firth, very near to the long Cromarty Bridge.<\/p>\n

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Looking towards the Cromarty Bridge from the Storehouse<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Lunch at the Storehouse of Foulis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We noted our milage as we passed Delnies Woods, our starting place: 542 miles.\u00a0\u00a0The round trip from here to Inverness Castle (the “official” starting point of the NC 500) is 15 miles, so our journey on the NC 500 was a grand total of 527 miles.<\/p>\n

Then it was homeward on well kent roads, reflecting on our experiences as we drove round \u00a0the North Coast.<\/p>\n

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If you would like to see more pictures of our road trip round the NC 500 you can see them on my Flickr page:\u00a0\u00a0 CLICK HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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