Scotland 2009

We visited Scotland from August 3-15, 2009. Here is a small sampling of the 3100+ photos we took.

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Edinburgh

We started in Edinburgh, taking a few side trips to nearby places.

	Edinburgh Castle	National Gallery
Scott Monument	Lewis Chessmen (National Museum)	Holyrood Abbey
Holyrood Palace		Craigmillar Castle

Borders Tour

We took a Borders tour with Discreet Scotland. While they list particular sites on their borders tour, we were able to pick where we wanted to go (our preference was the abbeys; we added Jedburgh Abbey to the tour in place of another site Discrete had suggested) and spend as much time as we wanted at each place without being rushed. We were very happy with our tour.

Melrose Abbey	Wallace Statue	Dryburgh Abbey
Floors Castle	Jegburgh Abbey	Abbottsford House

Linlithgow Palace and Blackness Castle

We took a train from Edinburgh to Linlithgow; it's a short walk from the train station to the palace. The palace is great. Next to the palace is St Michael's Church. And if you catch the #49 bus from Linlithgow, you can see Blackness Castle (but note that this bus only runs once every 2 hours).

St Michael's Church

Blackness Castle

Highlands tour

We took a 5 days Highland tour with Rabbies. Rabbies uses 16 person busses, so the tour isn't crowded.

Dunkeld Cathedral	Loch an Eilean Castle	Lochness
Inverness Castle	Ardverck Castle	Achmelvich Beach
Corrieshalloch Gorge	Rogie Falls	Bealach nam Bo road
Portree	Dunvegan Castle	Kilt Rock
Eilean Donan Castle	Glencoe	Falls of Dochart

Stirling Castle, Ayr, and Culzean

After our Highland tour, our Rabbies driver was nice enough to drop us off in Stirling, where we spent the night and saw Stirling Castle. We then took the train to Ayr, and from Ayr, the #60 bus to Culzean.

Stirling Castle

Old Bridge in Ayr

Culzean Castle