The front of this postcard shows the map of the North Coast 500 (NC500) coastal road route while the back explained what it is:
The North Coast 500 is an iconic coastal route that covers over 500 miles of stunning scenery across the north Highlands of Scotland, beginning and ending at Inverness Castle.
Most of our Scotland holiday in 2022 was spent in the Highlands of Scotland, where we based in the northern city of Inverness. I have read a good deal about this coastal road route and it need a great deal of planning with stays from 5-7 days which we cannot afford to do at the time as we wanted to go to many different places in the Scottish Highlands as well.
Instead, we took the eastern route as it was supposed to be the easiest to drive but not necessarily the most beautiful part of NC500. Our destination on this drive was John O'Groats, the most northerly village in mainland Britain. The road was indeed quite easy to drive but it is nonetheless scary as parts of the route were located beside very steep cliffs with lots of twists and turns along the way.
