Single Day Tours from Edinburgh
Stirling Castle and lovely Perthshire lochs
Pass Linlithgow Palace, birthplace of Mary Queen of Scots, Bannockburn, scene of the 1314 Battle between Scots and English, to Stirling - tour superb castle. Then see Wallace monument before a drive through Rob Roy country - the lochs and hills.Return by Glen Turret distillery (and sample the whisky if you must), Drummond Castle with its lovely formal gardens and by Gleneagles of golfing fame to Glendevon and back to Edinbugh.
Allow 5 hours minimum.
St. Andrews and East Neuk
Old Course, the Golf Museum, Cathedral, Castle: Falkland Palace, a few miles from St. Andrews and the fishing harbours of Anstruther, Pittenweem and Crail.
Allow 5 hours minimum.
Scottish Borders
Softer countryside, many castles, abbeys, large mansion houses and gardens. See the ancestral residence of the Duke of Roxburgh or perhaps the Silver Staircase at Manderton House or Sir Walter Scott's house at Abbotsford.
Allow 5 hours minimum.
Loch Lomond and Firth of Clyde
" By yon Bonnie Banks " the famous loch with Ben Lomond rising from it. Various options -west to Inveraray, Duke of Argyll's Castle, Crarae Gardens or north to Crianlarich and back by Killin ( Falls of Dochart) and Loch Tay
Allow 6 hours minimum.
Hills Lochs and Glens

North by Glendevon and Gleneagles to Crieff. Stop to tour the whisky distillery, then through Sma (small) glen to Aberfeldy and Loch Tay. Over Schiehallion to Loch Tummel (Queens View) and on to Blair Castle, ancestral home of the Duke of Atholl. Return by Dunkeld, Perth and Loch Leven.
Allow 6 hours minimum.


