Cathedrals/churches:
- Day 1 in Glasgow - St Mungo's Cathedral
- Day 2 out of Glasgow - Old Kirk yard and Brig 'o Doon
- Day 3 transfer 1 - St Conan's Kirk - eclectic style
- Day 11 transfer 5 - Rosslyn Chapel - from Da Vinci Code
- Day 10 out of Pitlochery - Dunkeld Cathedral
- Peebles - Cross Kirk - ruins
Museums:
- pre-tour in Glasgow - People's Palace
- Day 1 in Glasgow - Kelvingrove Museum
- Riverside Museum of Transportation
- Day 2 out of Glasgow - Robbie Burns Cottage and Museum
- Day 3 transfer 1 - Hill House (Charles Rennie Macintosh) drive by only
- Day 4 out of Oban - Kilmartin Museum - history of iron age people;
standing stones and cairns nearby
Natural:
- Day 3 transfer 1 - Loch Lommand
- Day 5 transfer 2 - cruise on Lock Shiel;
- Day 6 out of Ft William - gondola up Aonach Mor in the Ben Nevis Range
- Day 7 transfer 3 - Isle of Skye - Coullens (Red and Black) mountains
Battlefields/Historic:
- Day 5 transfer 2 - Glenfinnon Monument where Bonnie Prince Charlie landed
- Day 6 out of Ft Wiliam - Glencoe and visitor center
- Day 6 out of Ft William - Commando Memorial statue
- Day 8 out of Dingwall - Culloden and visitor center
Sites:
- Day 5 transfer 2 - Glenfinnon - passage of Harry Potter train over viaduct
- Day 5 transfer 2 - Ft William - Neptune's staircase - locks at the start of the Great Glen Way
- Day 11 Edinburgh - Royal Mile
- Day 6 out of Ft William - train ride across Rannoch Moor
- Day 6 out of Ft William - Green Welly rest stop
- Day 8 out of Dingwall - Clava Cairns
- Day 9 transfer 4 - Cairngorms National Park - sheepdog demo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doSCIEebhAsv
https://www.leaultworkingsheepdogs.co.uk/
- Day 10 out of Pitlockery - Loch of the Lowes - Osprey preserve
- Day 11 transfer 5 - bridges across the Firth of Forth
Restaurants
- lunch at Kelengrove museum cafe
- lunch at Robbie Burns Museum cafe
- lunch in Ivarary The George - baked goat cheese!
- lunch at cafe with loche view near Oban near garden
- lunch at the cafeteria at Green Welly
- fancy trout lunch at Glennfinnon House
- lunch in Portree - fish and chips on the water
- lunch at Cawdor Castle cafe
- lunch in Carbridge
- lunch at Bessie's place - best lentil soup(Morocan w/ tomato and chick peas)
- lunch in old kitchen at Scone Palace
- all of the meals on the boat:
- salmon / nutloaf
- pasta
- filo bundles/
- veg haggis / chicken
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- Inverness - Hootananny, Black Iron Brewery
- 4 dinners at hotel in Bathgate
Castles/Palaces:
- Day 2 out of Glasgow - Culzean Castle - on the Firth of Clyde
- Day 3 transfer 1 - Inverary Castle (home of current Duke of Argyle)
- Day 4 out of Oban - Dunstaffnage Castle and chapel(ruins with wooden stairs)
- Day 5 Fort william - Old Inverlochy Castle
- Day 7 transfer 3 - Eilean Donan Castle
- Urquart Castle on Loch Ness
- Day 8 out of Dingwall - Cawdor Castle
- Day 10 out of Pitlochery - Scone Palace - Stone of Scone; current residence of the 8th Earl of Mansfield; had lunch in the old kitchen
- Day 11 Edinburgh - Edinburgh Castle
- Inverness - Inverness Castle
Distilleries:
- Day 4 Oban - Oban distillery - small; in-town; souvenier glass
- Day 9 transfer 4 - Glen Ord distillery - large; big warehouse; Singleton Malt - all goes to SE Asia
Towns:
- Glasgow - Novatel - nice modern hotel with nice bar and restaurant; music in the evening
- Inverary - lunch at The George - old inn
- Oban - Royal Hotel; near ferry to Mull
- Fort William - Ben Nevis Hotel; view of Ben Nevis from my bed!
- Portree - Isle of Skye, harbor w/ fish and chips; girls playing bagpipes in the square
- Dingwall - Tulloch Castle(hotel); lovely dining room and a traditional music concert the second evening there
- Carbridge - small 300 yo bridge(kids jumping off); lunch here
- Pitlockery - Fisher Hotel; after dinner walk to salmon ladder; after dinner discussion of current Scotland politics
- Dunkeld - town on the River Tay; visited cathedral
- Culross - town that time forgot; tour of old buildings; l
- Edinburgh - Crown Plaza Royal Terrace
- Biggar - Upper Clydesdale Museum; camped at golf course
- Peebles - walked through town; parked near cemetery
- Bathgate - Mosshall Farm Caravan Park
- Inverness - Columba Hotel
- Bathgate - Fairway Hotel
- Falkirk - Falkirk Wheel; Kelpies
- North Berwick - beach town
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