Who needs Euro-touring?

I’ve spent many holidays in the Cairngorm Mountains, right back into the 1960s when access was no more than a single-track road with passing places. Now, of course, the Cairngorms are much more accessible, with a modern sweeping road out of Aviemore. But I didn't want to just blast up the A9 to get there, so this trip developed into a three-day clockwise tour of the Highlands, riding up through Glencoe and the Great Glen and back past Balmoral and Glenshee, into The Trossachs, and home.

My route started and ended at my home in the Campsie Hills north of Glasgow, but it could easily be adapted to start and end in Glasgow, or even to start in Glasgow and end in Edinburgh, with easy access