After breakfast we check out of the hotel where our bus will bring you to the airport to fly home.

After breakfast we will enjoy a city sightseeing tour by tour featuring many of the impressive buildings designed by architects such as Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Alexander „Greek‟ Thomson (exterior views only). We then enjoy free time for shopping or sightseeing with the opportunity to visit some of the places seen on the tour. Also […]

Following breakfast we check out of our hotel. We board the ferry from Armadale to Mallaig where we have the opportunity for lunch (not included) before joining ‘The Jacobite’ steam train and experience one of the most memorable and spectacular railway journeys in the world. “The Jacobite‟ combines the romance of the steam era with […]

After breakfast, we take a short ferry crossing from Sconser to the island of Raasay. We begin with a tour to the northern end of the island: highlights include the picturesque ruin of 15th century Brochel Castle, once an impressive structure which was impregnable from the sea. We take the ferry back to Sconser, before […]

After breakfast, we depart for Dunvegan Castle, the ancient home of the chiefs of the Clan MacLeod. Following our visit here we take a scenic drive around Trotternish, Skye‟s most northerly peninsula, which contains within its narrow confines a barren, haunting environment studded with fantastic basaltic formations and ancient settlements. We then spend some time […]

After breakfast, we check out of our hotel. We return to the station at Inverness, this time heading west to Kyle of Lochalsh on the scheduled diesel train service. Our route takes us through Strath Bran and the isolated little station at Achnasheen, on into Strath Carron to the head of Loch Carron, passing Stromeferry, […]

Today following breakfast we will board the morning scheduled diesel train service from Inverness to Wick. The line takes us along the shores of the Cromarty and Dornoch Firths, looping round by Lairg and back to the coast, passing the former junction with the Dornoch branch at The Mound. From Golspie the line follows the […]

Following an early breakfast, we check out of our hotel. We travel by coach to Aviemore for a journey on the Strathspey Railway. We will board the maroon-liveried coaches which will evoke memories of train journeys in the 1950s and 60s and the train will be hauled by a lovingly restored steam locomotive from the […]

After breakfast this morning we transfer to Edinburgh Waverley railway station and take a train ride on the Borders Railway, which opened in 2015 and follows the alignment of the old North British “Waverley Line” as far as Tweedbank, just south of Galashiels. Here we alight and continue by coach to nearby Abbotsford House, built […]

Please make your own way to Edinburgh. We will join our coach and enjoy a brief city tour by coach, after which you are free to explore and sightsee at your leisure in the historic city of Edinburgh. Notable sights include Edinburgh Castle, which sits on top of a rocky crag and dominates the city […]