Tour 1 from Edinburgh to Aberdeen (Sunday):

Stirling Castle

Glamis Castle

Kinnaird Castle

Dunnotar Mains

Drumoak

Aberdeen

Tour2:

Aberdeen to Inverness (Tuesday):

Tolquhon Castle

Huntly Castle

Ballindalloch Castle

Cawdor Castle

Inverness

Tour 3:

Inverness to Fort Williams (thursday)

Tour 4:

Fort Williams to Edinburgh (saturday)

This whole tour we will do from Sunday to Saturday. All the castles we don't want ot visit, it is enough for us, to see this from outside.

Do you think my plans ar OK? Or is the way to long, to see all these castles?

Thank you very much for your help.

Erhard

Thanks.

I'm new and my Name ist Malte. I will travel the third time to edinburgh on the weekend at the 2nd november. I'm a voluntary firefighter in my home town in germany and I would like to see one or two Fire Stations in Edinburgh. Does anybody know where I could find the way to communicate with some stations? I found the www.firescotland.gov.uk website, but maybe here is someone who has any information or tipps for me!

Thanks a lot.

Kind Regards,

malte

   A friend of mine are thinking of travelling, for three weeks or so, to Scotland (though we wouldn't mind Ireland, either) and considering our preferences and limitations, I wanted to ask you about it.

   My friend and I, we are: two girls, 24 years old, art students, suuper chill, no hard partying required at all, but meeting (preferably nice, ha) people over a drink or a good burger or whatever is aaalways a happy occasion, nature is a must but we would like a bit of city as well, and to visit more than one place, move around a little but we no backpacking, exactly. And last but definitely not least, we are looking for it to be as inexpensive as possible, accepting all the sacrifices this might entail, of course. You can't have everything. Oh, and we would stay about three weeks, in July (my friend isn't the biggest fan of cold cilmates, but depending on what you tell me I might whisper it between coughs and move on to a different subject very quickly).

   Oh, and if there are some festivals or cool events that you know of... Of course we will do our own research further along, but we are just brewing this whole thing, so maybe you can point something out for us?

   Considering aaall of this, do you think some kind of trip to Scotland/Ireland is viable, altogether? Maybe there is no inexpensive for three weeks in these places.

   Thanks!!

this is our first trip to Scotland, longer than 1 day. We were here for a round trip by ship, so we were only for a few hours in Scotland for 10 days.

We want to stay for 7 days in Scotland, starting at 24. of November. We plan to rent a car and starting our tour at sunday from Edinburgh.
We want to go north / north-west and want to see many nice castles, eating in public pubs and sleeping in B&B.

Do you think, that I have to order special car wheels for the winter or is the weather warm enough for summer wheels?

Do you have any tips, what is important so see?

One of our destination is Loch Ness. So, what is better, to go for destination to destination or stay in a place and make day trips by car?

We prefer to have a location for the night near a pub, because we don't want to drive in the evening.

So many questions, but I hope, Ican find someone, who can help me with my answers.

Thank you very much

Erhard