CYCLE FROM OBAN TO INVERNESS. THINK £3MILLION

This is the path by our cottage which will carry the cycle track.

You'll soon be able to set out from Oban on your bike and get to your office in Inverness by a cycle track all the way. This goes past the back of our cottage and up the sides of all the lochs on the way. It will be a glorious bike ride, the best in the world. It will take you three days to get there. Have a coffee with your office pals, one quick meeting, turn round and come back again in time for the weekend. To get you to the office and back will cost the rest of us £3 million.

Transport Minister, Keith Brown, has announced funding of almost £4 million towards the development of the National Cycle Network. Three quarters of this will be spent on the dedicated cycle track between Oban and Inverness.

‘The Great Glen cycle path will be an iconic route which will boost the local economy through additional tourism. Indeed it will – and bang on message in adding to Scotland’s USP of activity tourism in breathtakingly beautiful surroundings.

Michael Russell, SNP MSP for Argyll and Bute says: ‘I welcome this commitment to route 78, and particularly the cycle route to be created between Oban and Appin, to link a remote community off the main Oban to Fort William section of the larger route.

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ps. Will it be worth it? Yes, in the long run, of course it will. In 50 years' time it will seem like small beer.

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