August 2017 Trip to Scotland

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Everything you suggested, Oban, Fort William etc. sounds good, except Edinburgh which is the one place I would rather avoid especially at Festival and Tattoo season, much too touristy. If you do decide to visit Edinburgh, a day trip by train from Edinburgh into the Borders will give you a brief taste of our beautiful scenery and Border Reiver history and you will also catch views of Borthwick Castle and Crichton Castle from the train, and if I am free I will meet you for a coffee. The train journey takes just under an hour each way.
Glasgow in August, you might time it right for the week long Piping Live Festival which immediately precedes the World Pipe Band Championships.
My wife and I spent a week based at Fort William earlier this year, from where we made day trips to the Isle of Skye and the Isle of Mull, Aviemore and Cairngorm Mountain and also did the train trip to Mallaig. Letterfinlay Lodge is under a half hour drive from Fort William and offers excellenty cuisine, me met up there with Jock Scot.
If you are fit, Ben Nevis is a good full day trek. On the one occasion I did it, the cloud rolled in and it was misty on top. Better perhaps to ride the mountain gondola on the Aonach Mor, one of the lesser mountains of the Nevis Range, which gets you up there much quicker and offers good views.
Oban has memories for me as I worked there for a time in the nineteen eighties and had my career turned out differently I may have settled there as it is a town which has all the facilities you could wish for. Tommy's Barber Shop on Stevenson Street still does cheap hair cuts for men just like when I used to go there in the nineteen eighties but the barber is a younger man nowadays. A nice day out for a road trip, taking in the Isle of Mull could use the coast road from Oban to Fort William, take the Mallaig road and turn off at Lochailort for Acharacle, then down the Ardnamurchan peninsula to Kilchoan, car ferry to Tobermory, drive along the Mull coastline to Craignure and then the ferry back to Oban.