HAVING just spent a great four days near Oban in a lovely campsite with weather to “die in a ditch” for, I can completely agree with Roxanne Sooroshian and her article on Sunday (‘Whacky races’ as visitors descend on tourist hotspots, April 16).

On Wednesday last week we motorbiked over Rannoch Moor and through Glencoe – wonderful! We stopped for lunch in a layby on Rannoch Moor, taking in the breathtaking scenery until we looked at what was lying at our feet.

Quite obviously the layby had been used for an overnight stay. At our feet some idiot had discarded their dressing gown and socks plus their “carry-out” from the night before. Disgusting!

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Normally we would have bundled these up into a carrier bag and taken them away, but with all regarding “19” and the fact we were on the motorbike we just couldn’t this time.

I must admit we didn’t see much in the way of “parking in passing places” – and we were on Mull and on many single-track roads – but on the way home, for once we were glad to be heading in the direction we were and not heading northish.

The traffic was horrendous, mile upon mile, an endless stream of all types of vehicles, nose to tail. From about a mile and a half out of Callander, into Callander main street (a long street in itself) right out through for about a mile the other side, “traffic”, not moving, just sitting there.

I suppose there has to be a “gripe” and here it is. I hope the person driving a green John Deer tractor on the A85 near Lochearnhead on Saturday at around 11.30am, pulling a flatbed trailer with an orange digger on top with nine million vehicles travelling behind him for miles, reads this. For f**k sake “pull over”, you pillock, in future. So, so annoying!

It’s law, you know – or obviously you don’t. Gripe over, home safe.

Ken McCartney
Hawick