VisitScotland staff must be among the jammiest workers on the planet. Every day is a potential lie-in as yet another programme comes along providing acres of adoring, and free, publicity, the latest example of which is Britain’s Most Beautiful Road (Channel 4, Saturday) . As the West Highland terriers in the street know, the title refers to North Coast 500, described by the makers of this four-part series as “one of the world’s most incredible coastal routes”.
That was just the start of a stream of superlatives. If you were looking for a hard-hitting investigation into the downsides of living alongside a tourist magnet it was not to be had here. The subject of over-tourism was tackled, but in the most upbeat of ways.
We saw Chas the access warden, for instance, one of 22 hired by the council to manage the impact of tourism, ask one group not to dry their wetsuits on a road sign. They agreed cheerily to move the offending items and Chas went on his way. He asked another couple to move their camp site and they, too, were happy to oblige.
Chas did say at one point that most people were good but he definitely preferred animals, so maybe there is worse behaviour and a few rammies to come in the next three episodes. Read more Gaining access to court of King Donald Trump is risky business Crime drama seeps into the bones like winter's chill Chas was hoping to be promoted to ranger so he would have a job after the summer. Elsewhere, a surfer couple were thinking of moving to .
