SCOTLAND TOURS 2013

ESCORTED COACH TOURS

5 Day Live Scottish Soul

Guaranteed Dates:

 17/05/13 – 21/05/13
07/06/13 – 11/06/13

05/07/13 – 09/07/13

09/08/13 – 13/08/13
06/09/13 – 10/09/13

Day 1 Welcome Scotland:
Arrive at Glasgow Airport, meet with your qualified local English speaking guide & coach driver & travel to Glasgow City. On arrival enjoy a Panoramic Glasgow City Tour. The tour will take you from George Square in the city centre past the impressive Glasgow Cathedral to the West End to admire Glasgow’s historic university buildings, River Clyde, City Chambers & Glasgow Green & People’s Palace. Visit Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum, one of Scotland’s most visited attractions with 22 themed, state-of- the-art galleries displaying an astonishing 8000 objects. The internationally significant collections are extensive & wide-ranging, covering natural history, arms & armours, art from many art movements & periods of history. This evening transfer to your hotel & check in where you can enjoy a welcome drink & dinner.
Overnight: Glasgow (Dinner & full bed & breakfast)

Day 2 Glaskow – Inverness
Depart Glasgow today & travel northwards along Loch Lomond. The area is renowned for its beauty & tranquillity & offers picture postcard views around every corner. The Loch is 24 miles long, five miles wide & at its deepest point is some 600 feet deep. On the Loch there are approximately 38 islands, some of which are inhabited. Stop in Luss for a photo stop & enjoy the view onto the small islands in the middle of the Loch. Continue via Glen Coe, a peaceful & beautiful valley, which is believed to be a scene of a massacre when the local Mac Donald’s were murdered by soldiers of the Campbell clan in the 17th century.
Next stop by Spean Bridge Woollen Mill before you continue to Loch Ness via Fort William & Fort Augustus. Enjoy a cruise on Loch Ness famous for its resident - Nessie, the exceedingly friendly, though extremely elusive, Loch Ness monster. Overnight: Inverness
(Dinner & full bed & Breakfast )

Day 3 Inverness- Speyside Area
Visit Culloden Battlefield Visitor Centre this morning. The battle lines have been redrawn at the new Culloden battlefield experience, with the site restored to as close as possible to that seen by the forces on that fateful day in April 1746. With over 1,200 dead in just one hour Culloden was a short but bloody battle – the last to be fought on British soil. Now the whole family can experience & understand so much more about the events before, during & after the battle through interactive exhibitions & film. Continue your journey of Scotland through the Speyside area. Acknowledged as Scotland's national drink, whisky has been produced here for longer than anyone can remember. Speyside - the famous whisky producing region is home to over half of Scotland’s Malt Whisky distilleries. Discover how the distilleries use barley, water, yeast & peat to create the distinctive taste, texture, colour & smell of whisky. Make sure you try some Scotch whisky when you visit Scotland - there is a whisky to suit everyone's taste & it is sure to interest & surprise you! Continue to picturesque town of Pitlochry & visit Blair Athol Distillery, one of the oldest working distilleries in Scotland. After enjoying a leisurely conducted tour, you can mull over the distinctive character of the finished product as you sip your dram of Blair Athol 12 Year Old.
Overnight: Edinburgh (Dinner & full bed & breakfast)

Day 4 Edinburgh
This morning enjoy a city tour of Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland, and a historic & cultured city. The setting is wonderfully striking with the city perched on a series of extinct volcanoes & rocky crags which rise from the generally flat landscape of the Lothian’s, with the sheltered shoreline of the Firth of Forth
to the north. Edinburgh Castle dominates the city-centre skyline & from its ramparts you can look down on medieval lanes & elegant, sweeping terraces that hold over a thousand years of history, mystery & tradition.
Yet you will also see a modern, dynamic
capital where international festivals attract the world's leading performers, galleries display cutting-edge art, & bars, restaurants & clubs create a lively, cosmopolitan atmosphere with a distinctly Scottish twist. 'Edinburgh,' said writer Robert Louis Stevenson, 'is what Paris ought to be'.
Visit Edinburgh Castle, the most famous of the Scottish castles with its complex building history. The oldest part, St Margaret's Chapel, dates from the 12th century; the Great Hall was erected by James IV around 1510; the Half Moon Battery by the Regent Morton in the late 16th century & the Scottish National War Memorial after the First World War. The castle houses the Honours (Crown Jewels) of Scotland, the Stone of Destiny & the famous 15th century gun Mons Meg to name but a few.

OPTIONAL - Dinner & show in
Prestonfield House or similar; Supplement of £47.00 p.p.
This evening enjoy a celebration of
Scottish food, song & dance at the historic Prestonfield House, Edinburgh's only AA 5 Red Star hotel & the magnificent setting for the renowned Taste of Scotland Show & Dinner. Enjoy a four-course dinner with wine & a taste of haggis, followed by a lavish 2 hour show with an inspiring cast, including three Scottish tenors, a special appearance by the wee Highlanders &, in celebration of Homecoming Scotland 2009, a tribute to Robert Burns, his songs & most famous recitations, including address to the Haggis & Auld Lang Syne.
Overnight: Edinburgh (Full bed & breakfast)
Day 5 Farewell
This morning, enjoy breakfast before your scheduled transfer to the airport for your return flight home.

Rates
May, June, July & September 2013: 620 €
Single Room Supplement: 160 €
(May, June, July & September)
All prices Excluding Airline Tickets

Christmas & New Year Eve Scotland starting at 350 € rates
8 nights 7 day party in Glaskow or Edinburgh follow Glaskow Christmas Lights
 

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