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02 Oct Scotland Tour

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At Ireland and Scotland Luxury Tours we have a great nine/ten-day trip around Scotland.   We begin at Cameron House for two nights. This allows us to visit Stirling Castle and Loch Lomond.   Then we move through the Highlands to the Isle of Skye. We stay at Kinloch Lodge for...

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04 Jul Hopetoun House, Edinburgh

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    This is one of the most notable historic family homes and well worth visiting on any tours of Scotland. It is the seat of the Marquess of Linlithgow and sits on the outskirts of Edinburgh.   The house was built between 1699 and 1703, with an extension in...

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23 Feb Arniston House, Midlothian

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This is the seat of the Dundases of Arniston. It is an interesting stop on any tours of Scotland.   The family was once powerful in the affairs of the South East of Scotland, and eventually of Scotland itself.   The statue of their most famous son “Henry Dundas” dominates...

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05 Nov Crail, Fifeshire, Fife

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The coast road north from Edinburgh to Saint Andrews and Tayside is for part of its route a series of links between small medieval fishing villages of similar appearance: St Monance, Pittenweem, Anstruther and, the most north-easterly, Crail. James VI called these royal burghs the...

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03 Nov Dysart, Fifeshire, Fife

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In Walter Scott’s novel Rob Roy, Andrew Fairservice, the loquacious gardener, refers to the kingdom of Fife as ‘just like a great combined city – Sae mony royal boroughs yoken on end to end… Kirkcaldy, the sell o’t, is langer than ony town in England.’...

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06 Jul George Square, Glasgow

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The largest open space in central Glasgow, George Square, laid out in 1781 and named after George III, may be considered the centre of the city itself. In 1837 it was crowned by Glasgow’s tribute to the great Edinburgh novelist, Sir Walter Scott: an eighty-foot...

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28 Jun Tantallon, East Lothian, Lothian

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[caption id="attachment_8739" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Tantallon, East Lothian, Lothian[/caption]   Both road and rail north to Edinburgh from England run through country like this after crossing the border at Berwick. With sea and cliffs on one side and portions of sweet land on the other, no more beguiling...

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29 Apr Holyrood, Edinburgh

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First-time visitors to Edinburgh usually have in mind at least two essential sights: the castle and the palace. Holyrood – comprising the abbey, the park and the palace – begins at the northern slope of Arthur’s Seat. The original palace was begun in about 1500...

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09 Mar Stirling Castle, Stirlingshire

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Stirling Castle, and the town itself, played an important role in the 13th and 14th century Wars of Independence; near here Bannockburn was fought and, seventeen years earlier, William Wallace routed the Earl of Surrey’s army at Stirling Bridge. The castle, still under military occupation,...

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23 Feb New Town, Edinburgh

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In 1767 it was announced in Edinburgh that the architect James Craig was to be ‘entitled to the primum for the best plan of a New Town’. This plan became the street and squares which are today bounded by St Andrews Square to the east,...

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