Classic road trip with Scotland Car Rental

We could have rented a small car to a quarter of the price. A spacious family car for less than half. But Scotland is to be experienced in a classic British sports car, we believe, and provides us instead a 32-year-old MGB. The price is 800 pounds for 6 days. Then free mileage insurance and transportation to and from the airport in Edinburgh included.

- Shall we pack a picnic basket for you, ask Alex Stewart, which leases the company Caledonian Classics in Dollarbeg near Stirling with cohabiting Tanya Worsfold.

The sun's rays two dogs running around playfully in the green grass and the rumble actually a bit in the stomach. We appreciate, however, no anxious to get out to the Scottish roads. But a few tips for great stretches of road we take with us before we make a brief introduction to fire up the 100 horse under the hood and head off to St. Andrews. A city with its two beautiful beaches and relaxed atmosphere is an excellent place to get your body in vacation mode.
Kilt and haggis

Scotland's kilt bagpipe whiskey and haggis. Fair NOK but it is also an almost perfect country for a road trip. As long as you manage to overcome the fear of driving on the "wrong side" of the road. And it should. The slopes are green and beautiful here is never far from an idyllic lake and every small village has a story to tell - and always a resident who is willing to tell it. It is possible Scots are saving the money but few are rausere when it comes to giving of themselves to visitors.

- You can not drink beer out here "said a man who must have had his days in the harsh 30-years.

A bit confused we put from us the beer and looking puzzled at the old Scot. It is only when his wife laughs as she almost loses the balance between the crutch that we realize that it was all a joke. The elderly couple are chuckling further along the sidewalk in the small village of Crail, and wish us a good vacation. They did it well for us.

Whiskey is important for the trip Elgin is a natural place to be a couple of days. In this area is around half of all whiskey-distillery in the country, and most offer free guided tours and tasting. From Elgin, it is not more than an hour drive to Inverness in the north end of the legendary Loch Ness. If you have time, you will enjoy your trip around the lake - not just driving the highway A82 along the west side. On the opposite side winds namely, a narrow little road along the water's edge. If you are looking for a dip, only to run to the side and jump into the water. Magnificent.
- Happy car

A little must sacrifice if you bet on the vintage car and holidays. The comfort is that in a modern car and there is no air conditioning. In return you can on less than a minute to close down the entire roof and enjoy nature's own air conditioning. Storage space is not impressive.

- It'a a happy car thinks Tanya Worsfold of MGB-a

And "happy" is just that it makes us too. Strangely NOK there are not many cars of this type in Scotland. Thus we get a lot of attention. Not the kind you get if you arrive in a red Ferrari. MGB-one is not a "hands-off" car. It is a communicator. And it does not at least the transportation between two places on a well so much of their holiday and experience the places you visit. The steady roar of the engine scents from nature and the wind that breathes you in the neck - it's like therapy for the weary soul.
Repairs

It is of course just when we feel that life can not get much better that it happens. On the way into a heavily trafficked roundabout outside Inverness cut the engine on the contrary. The queue is piling up behind us and after repeated twists with the ignition key, only to jump out and push the car to the side.

We turn number of the AA - the British response to the NAF - in the hope that they can cure our companion. An hour later, Gordon Shaw in place. A hefty man with a goal for the afternoon: Get MGB-one to run their own steam again. We have already packed all the luggage out of the car and started to put a crisis plan for the rest of the trip when Gordon finds the solution. A small black piece to the manifold, which he claims he has been lying in the car for 30 years is exactly what it takes to get the engine to paint again.

- There is such a need to calculate when a tenant a 32-year-old car says Tanya Worsfold when we return to the Caledonian Classics.

- But fortunately the errors are almost always trifling she asserts. - It only takes an hour or two before the car is on the road again.