Travelling around Britain isn’t always cheap. But there are ways you can keep the cost down
Holidays on home soil are likely to be the first we can take this year. Alas, travelling around Britain isn’t always cheap. But there are ways you can keep the cost down.
You can legally wild camp in Scotland and Dartmoor, or stay in a mountain bothy for free (when covid rules allow; mountainbothies.org.uk). And then there’s camping, of course: last year, on a three-day walk from my front door, I paid £7.50 a night, cooked couscous on my stove and spent a fiver on the bus back home. That might not be everyone’s idea of a bargain – some might prefer, say, access to a shower – but I felt I got a lot of experience for my money. And that’s perhaps the way to judge a British break; not on cost, but on value.
BikeRadar Rides | Bikepacking the Scottish Highlands In partnership with Komoot
BikeRadar Rides | Bikepacking the Scottish Highlands In the final instalment of our series of multi-day off-road adventures, Adrian Miles reaches gravel nirvana deep in the Scottish Highlands
December 22, 2020 at 4:00 pm
So what would it be? Haggis and cheese toastie? Haggis and bacon? Given where we found ourselves, our last chance for sustenance in the next 75 kilometres of Highland gravel was always going to be haggis with something or another.
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We’d just sampled some top-notch Scotch at the Dalwhinnie Distillery, in the eponymous village on the western flank of the Cairngorms, and now I was about to eat Scotland’s favourite delicacy for the first time. A more Scottish scene you couldn’t imagine. Until the rain began lashing it down, anyway…