Scottish Tour - March Magazine

Glengavel
Glengavel Forum Participant Posts: 11
edited March 2023 in Club Products & Services #1

I sometimes think the local attractions mentioned in site reviews are a bit ambitious but this month takes the biscuit. Under the Yellowcraig review it suggests a family trip to Scotland's Secret Bunker - 80 miles or two hours away! Be prepared for wails of "are we there yet"...

 

Comments

  • Tinwheeler
    Tinwheeler Forum Participant Posts: 23,134 ✭✭✭
    10,000 Likes 1000 Comments Name Dropper
    edited March 2023 #2

    Yeah, but it’s not far as the crow flies. 😄

    Swansea is shown as about 30 miles from Cornwall in many guides and searches🙄

  • Cornersteady
    Cornersteady Club Member Posts: 14,425 ✭✭✭
    5,000 Likes 1000 Comments Name Dropper Photogenic
    edited March 2023 #3

    There has, down the years, been some horrendous mistakes with geography, sites and features, and routes in the magazine, this is just another one.

    It's often been posted that those who write these articles for the magazine just write them from their desks and don't actually do more than look at google maps and/or the local tourist advice.

  • Glengavel
    Glengavel Forum Participant Posts: 11
    edited March 2023 #4

    There's no way the author looked at a map. smile

    Anyway, I shouldn't mock; when we were in Australia some years ago we went on a coach trip from Melbourne to the Twelve Apostles on the Great Ocean Road - a round trip of 300 miles.

  • brue
    brue Forum Participant Posts: 21,176 ✭✭✭✭✭
    1000 Comments
    edited March 2023 #5

    My theory is that these are deliberate mistakes to see if anyone actually reads the articles....wink

  • Takethedogalong
    Takethedogalong Forum Participant Posts: 17,027 ✭✭✭
    10,000 Likes 1000 Comments Name Dropper Photogenic
    edited March 2023 #6

    That’s a night out in Australia🤣. They are renown for doing long distance drives.  

  • Wherenext
    Wherenext Club Member Posts: 10,585 ✭✭✭
    5,000 Likes 1000 Comments Name Dropper
    edited March 2023 #7

    It took us nearly an hour and a half in September 2021 to drive from Yellowcraig to the car park below the Forth Bridge Queensferry! 

    As far as I'm concerned they can keep it a secret.

  • JollyKernow
    JollyKernow Forum Participant Posts: 2,629
    1000 Comments
    edited March 2023 #8

    Much like the USA Ttda, distances are in hours not miles. During our RV tour in October we would easily drive 10 0r 12 hours to the next stop.

    JK

  • Glengavel
    Glengavel Forum Participant Posts: 11
    edited March 2023 #9

    Ah, you doubtless met the Edinburgh City By-Pass, Scotland's largest car park. It really puts me off caravanning in East Lothian/Northumberland if I know I'm going to be attacking it in the hours of daylight.

  • ABM
    ABM Forum Participant Posts: 14,578
    1000 Comments
    edited March 2023 #10

    Just head for the "Secret Bunker " outside Nantwich  ~~  so secret that they didnt bother burying it except for the first 10 or so feet  ==  honest  wink

Categories