Tour Scotland Travel Video Dreich Drive North Coast 500 Single Track Road Rugged Scottish Highlands

Tour Scotland travel video Blog of a dreich road trip drive, with Scottish music, North on a single track road with passing places on the North Coast 500 route, in the rugged, sparsely populated, wilderness area on ancestry visit to the North West Scottish Highlands of Scotland. Dreich is a Scots word for dull, rainy cloudy. Scotland's Route 66. A single track road or one lane road is a road that permits two way travel but is not wide enough in most places to allow vehicles to pass one another, although sometimes two compact cars can pass. This kind of road is common in rural areas across the United Kingdom and elsewhere. The term is widely used in Scotland, particularly in the Highlands and Islands.

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