Scotland

Popular places in Scotland

• Edinburgh
• Glasgow

Cityscape
 Known as the Athens of the North, casually cosmopolitan Edinburgh is instantly recognisable and not easily forgotten. Glasgow has Scotland’s best shopping and nightlife and pulls in an ever-growing number of visitors while further north are the gateway to the Highlands, Inverness and the great maritime cities of Dundee and Aberdeen.

Landscape
 Walk or climb in the Highlands or visit the verdant Tweed Valley. Savour the wild serenity of the Hebridean Islands and come face to face with the majestic Golden Eagle on Mull. Make the pilgrimage to St Andrews and play on the Old Course, the home of golf..

Take Home
 Speyside is whisky country and Edinburgh is the place to get fitted for a kilt. Slurp some of Loch Fyne’s famous oysters, pick up a haggis in Ayrshire or Rennie Mackintosh-influenced jewellery in Glasgow. Buy the distinctive, handwoven and increasingly rare Harris Tweed in the Outer Hebrides.

Eat & Drink
 Tuck into a traditional Burns Supper of haggis, turnips and mashed potato in Ayr and sample Cullen Skink fish and potato soup in the East Neuk of Fife. Cross to Arbroath for the Arbroath Smokie smoked haddock or visit Islay to sample some of the world’s peatiest whiskies.

New Perspective
 The exciting if slightly baffling Garden of Cosmic Speculation at Portrack House in Dumfriesshire offers a very different take on the classical untamed idea of the Scottish landscape with its undulating landforms and inbuilt mathematical puzzles.