Perthshire
Perthshire - 'all of Scotland' as it is known. Perth, the fair city - where city meets country. Outstanding local 'must visits' are the Fair Maid's House in Curfew Row, The City Art gallery and museum, the theatre (we can arrange early and late meals and suppers), the Black Watch Museum, The City Mills, The new Perth Concert Hall.....and of course Scone Palace, a stunningly beautiful building where Robert the Bruce and King Charles II were crowned, and whose grounds house the little racecourse. Climb Kinnoull Hill for a stunning view of the Tay Valley.
Great days out take you to the Perthshire Visitor Centre, to idyllic Dunkeld and the Hermitage, where Scotland's tallest tree stands, to Pitlochry with its 'Theatre in the Hills', its distilleries, dam and fish ladder, and its lovely highland shops. A little beyond Pitlochry, Blair Castle awaits and you can shop till you drop at the House of Bruar - 'Scotland's Harrods'. And also worth visiting are Blairgowrie, Crieff, with Scotland's oldest distillery, Glenturret - and a fine visitor centre too.
- Castle Menzies, by Aberfeldy, where Bonnie Prince Charlie stayed on his way to the Battle of Culloden;
- two and a half centuries of military history at the Black Watch Museum;
- the island castle on Loch Leven where Mary, Queen of Scots was imprisoned for almost a year before her dramatic escape;
- the Church where John Knox fuelled the fire of the Reformation at St. John's Kirk in Perth;
- walk to the stunning waterfalls that inspired Robert Burns' poem; "The Birks O' Aberfeldy".
- oldest existing library in Scotland (Innerpeffray, near Crieff), founded by Lord Madderty in 1680.
- Queen's View, one of the most famous views in Scotland across Loch Tummel to Schiehallion. Queen Victoria took tea here in 1866, but the viewpoint actually commemorates Queen Isabel, first wife of Robert the Bruce.
- the fairy-tale white Blair Castle, protected by the last and only private army in Europe;
- the magnificent Scone Palace, where Kings of Scots including Robert the Bruce, were crowned - many atop the fabled Stone of Destiny.
- Listen for the footsteps of "My Lady Greensleeves" who is reputed to haunt Huntingtower Castle where Mary, Queen of Scots visited in 1565 while on her honeymoon with Darnley.
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