Campfire said:
My Mum and Dad used to go to Scotland with their car and take bikes, sleeping in the estate. My Mum was bitten all over her face and she said the little ********* ers made the holiday a misery.
I believe you don't get them in the Borders. Is that true?
Mr Campfire would like to go and live in Scotland but it would have to be a midge free zone for me.
We used to go on family climbing and camping holidays in Scotland, I can well remember the misery of camping in Glenbrittle in Skye and praying for wind and sunshine to keep them away. I can also remember holidays being abandoned and the family fleeing back home. We certainly couldn't have afforded to stay in a B&B or hotel, perhaps we should have stayed in YHAs? Later on my Dad joined a climbing club so we used to stay in huts, which was better. On a dull windless day though midges will still bother you at 3,000 feet up a mountain.
I remember a day when my brother and I parked our car in woods in Glenelg and got our MTBs out to assemble them and load up the panniers for a 3 day tour. Within minutes we were under attack and within 10 minutes we were going mad, slapping our heads and running around, even spraying flyspray randomly into the air around us! We locked the car and fled and when we got back 3 days later the dead midges were lying in a thick layer along the window sills.
You get midges in all of Scotland including the Borders and we even get them down here in Lancashire. On summer Wednesday evening MTB club rides I dread somebody puncturing in woods as we know we're going to get eaten alive while they fix it.