{"id":4036,"date":"2011-05-10T08:04:50","date_gmt":"2011-05-10T08:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/?p=4036"},"modified":"2021-01-17T13:12:28","modified_gmt":"2021-01-17T13:12:28","slug":"inverness-to-durness-bus-service-resumes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/inverness-to-durness-bus-service-resumes\/","title":{"rendered":"Inverness to Durness bus service resumes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_4038\" style=\"width: 320px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4038\" src=\"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/faraid1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"faraid\" width=\"310\" height=\"208\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4038\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4038\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Faraid Head, near Durness<\/p><\/div>The daily bus service to Durness from Inverness will start again on Monday 16 May. The service will operate with a 24-Seat Mercedes Midi Coach, and have facilities to carry 12 bikes on a fully enclosed trailer. Advance booking for bikes is essential. In the past the service has proved popular with walkers, cyclists and backpackers able to explore the remote far north. <\/p>\n<p>Donald Mathieson of D&#038;E Coaches, said: \u201cWe are delighted to have secured the Highland Council Summer Service 804 from Inverness to Durness, and look forward to being of service to the communities en route to the north west coast of Sutherland\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For further information on the timetable, fares or to make advance bookings visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.decoaches.co.uk\">website<\/a>, telephone 01463 222444 or e-mail info@decoaches.co.uk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The daily bus service to Durness from Inverness will start again on Monday 16 May. The service will operate with a 24-Seat Mercedes Midi Coach, and have facilities to carry 12 bikes on a fully enclosed trailer. Advance booking for bikes is essential. In the past the service has proved popular with walkers, cyclists and backpackers able to explore the remote far north. Donald Mathieson of D&#038;E Coaches, said: \u201cWe are delighted to have secured the Highland Council Summer Service 804 from Inverness to Durness, and look forward to being of service to the communities en route to the north<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/inverness-to-durness-bus-service-resumes\/\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\">Read more &#8250;<\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4038,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-access-issues","category-walking-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4036"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22947,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4036\/revisions\/22947"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}