4. The Custom Tour

Day One
Leave Edinburgh at 8.30am via the Forth Road Bridge, morning boat trip on the Firth of Forth or on Loch Leven to the castle, lunch at the Pillars of Hercules, afternoon at Falkland Palace, hunting seat of the Royal Stewarts, via Auchtermuchty, Green Jean’s Gate, and Perth to the River Tay.  Stay at Ballathie House Hotel, hidden in East Perthshire.

Glamis Castle

Day Two
Discover one of Wallace’s lost castles, the world’s biggest hedge and a hidden souterrain,  before a little bird watching and lunch in J.M. Barrie’s hometown of Kirriemuir. Afternoon trip to Glamis, reputed to be Scotland’s most haunted castle, visit the sacred healing well, and Meigle Museum, site of more Pictish stones than any other place. See other mysteries of Meigle. Stay at Ballathie.

Day Three
Head to West Perthshire via early 18th century Dunkeld and Victorian Birnam. Visit the Birnam Oak and Neil Gow’s Oak (a fiddle tree), take a walk through the woodland around Dunkeld and view ospreys feeding their young at the Loch of the Lowes. Stay at Ballathie.

Day Four
Leave Perthshire via the young and vibrant city of Dundee, over the Tay Bridge, and on to St. Andrews, the starting point for the Scottish Reformation, castle, cathedral, home of golf and one of the best beaches in Scotland to finish with a walk. Back to Edinburgh.

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