Previous Itineraries

1. Edinburgh City to include both the old town and the new town, a few examples could include the Edinburgh Castle, The Whisky Experience, the Royal Mile, Greyfriars Church, the High Kirk of St. Giles, John Knox's House and the Storytelling Centre, the Canongate, Holyrood Palace, the Scottish Parliament, the Grassmarket, Calton Hill, all the grandeur of the new town and its wonderful architecture, the Botanical Gardens, the Royal Yacht Britannia and a traditional pub for lunch - plus of course all the museums and galleries.

Outside Edinburgh to the south is situated the mercurial Rosslyn Chapel, one of the jewels of Scotland.

2. Scottish Borders - with all the old Reiver traditions, 12th century abbeys, old peel towers, Loch Carron Woollen Mill, Thomas the Rhymer's Stone, Abbotsford House, the Wallace Statue, Scott's View, the old town of Jedburgh incl. Mary Queen of Scot's house and the jail, taking in all the wonderful rolling border scenery of rivers and hills.
Lunch in an old pub.
Traquair House, the oldest inhabited house in Scotland, the old burgh of Peebles, Kailzie Gardens, Dawyck Botanical Gardens, the Grey Mare's Tale, the Beef Tub and the old town of Moffat.

Another suggestion could be to explore the world heritage village of New Lanark, and the old burgh of Biggar.

3. East Lothian and Berwickshire - to include the lovely coastal route and lush countryside, the distillery of Glenkinchie, visiting the pretty towns of Dirleton, Aberlady, Gullane with beach walks, North Berwick and the sea bird centre, the historical site of Athelstaneford, the Museum of Flight, the Old Mill at East Linton, and the pretty village of Gifford (where you will find the lovely pub the Goblin Ha') snuggled up in the Lammermuir Hills. Lovely pubs for lunch; then further down in Berwickshire on the other side of the Lammermuirs the area called the Moneynut and the Hungry Snout, before the old market town of Duns, where there is the Jim Clark museum for all racing car enthusiasts, Manderston House, Coldingham Priory to name just a few... again all in the surrounds of the most beautiful countryside, incl. rolling hills and rivers.

4. Dumfries, Galloway and Ayrshire - the historical town of Dumfries, and the coastline full of old smuggling villages, the home of John Paul Jones, who formed the American Navy, Gatehouse of Fleet, the artist's town of Kirkudbright, the book town of Wigtown, Bladnoch Distillery, the most southerly in the country, the Whithorn Experience and Burns Country.

5. The Forth Valley - the historic town of South Queensferry, the Forth Rail Bridge, Dalmeny House, Hopetoun House, Linlithgow Palace, Blackness Castle, or maybe up to the Falkirk Wheel and the 17th century town of Culross where coal was first discovered.

6. The Trossachs, Stirling and Perthshire - including the great castle of Stirling, the Lake of Monteith, Doune Castle, the Famous Grouse Experience, Drummond Gardens, the Sma' Glen, the Old Inn at Amulree, Gleneagles and Scone Palace.

7. The Kingdom of Fife - Falkand Palace, St. Andrews, the old fishing villages of Crail and Anstruther, and further north to Angus over the Tay Bridge to Dundee and Glamis Castle, one of the most magnificent castles in Scotland; then the town of Kirriemuir, the birthplace of the writer J.M. Barrie.

8. Aberdeenshire and Royal Deeside.

9. The East Highlands, including the Highland Folk Museum, Inverness, Culloden battlefield, the Great Glen including Loch Ness and a boat cruise and Urquhart Castle.

10. The Western Highlands, including Oban and Inveraray Castle, Glencoe, Rannoch Moor, the Road to the Isles, ferry across to Skye or Mull and Iona, the isle of Skye, Plockton and Wester Ross, Sutherland,"God's Own Country", including Glen Torridon, the upper Gairloch, Inverewe Gardens and the road up the Ullapool and the Summer Isles.

It is important to note there is much more to Scotland than the above – these are just examples of tours undertaken in recent years.