Honeymoon - 3 weeks in Scotland - What to do?

[Nomad]

Depends on what you mean by travel expenses, if that includes hotels, meals and stuff to do in the daytime it is probably quite reasonable. If my memory serves me right I paid between £80 - £110 for B&B last June at most hotels/B&Bs so that would leave around £110 for everything else which in most cases will be fine. There will be exceptions for posh dinners etc but as long as you have a fund for "special" events that is probably OK.

Thanks for all the suggestions. We'll try and have dinner at Inverlochy Castle Hotel. I had no idea the Roux are cooking there.

I researched travel expenses a little and came up with a figure of around £110 per person, per day. Would you guys say that's reasonable?

[Kiltedjohn]

There's always the risk of trying to visit too many different places. In the end, you may spend so much time travelling between one place and another that you have too little time in each place ("This is - that was - Edinburgh"). Be selective. Difficult to advise which places to select! So much depends on interests and preferences. There are so many places to choose from.

[neloon]

There's always the risk of trying to visit too many different places. In the end, you may spend so much time travelling between one place and another that you have too little time in each place ("This is - that was - Edinburgh"). Be selective. Difficult to advise which places to select! So much depends on interests and preferences. There are so many places to choose from.

Solution: Come back again - many times.

Alan

[gealach]

Thanks John

This is exactly why we try to get as many suggiestions from either real Scots or people who have real experience with Sctoland.

Travel guides can only tell you so much. In my experience they're mostly geared towards the 'standard' tourist and thus, are rather superficial. The comments in this thread have already given me some very useful hints as to what we could be doing. In the end, we will be very selective, taking our time.

I have also thought about staying at the same place for five days at a time and making day trips in different areas. How would you go about it?

EDIT @neloon: That's already a given.

[Jock Scot]

At the risk of sounding like a bore, well ok, perhaps I am, but I have been wandering around the UK in general and Scotland in particular and sometimes, in privileged and private places for the last three score years and ten, plus a tad and I have still not seen all that Scotland has to offer and, never will. My advice for what it is worth, is to hurry slowly.

[John_Carrick]

Some great advice in this thread. Glasgow has wonderful free art galleries (Kelvingrove). Edinburgh is incredible, especially during the festivals but accommodation will be through the roof; apart from the culture on offer you can just walk and walk and soak up the glorious architecture (maybe walk the Water of Leith to Leith and get the bus back).

Fort William is an excellent base to explore the Highlands (Jacobite steam train, places Jock has mentioned), as is Inverness. Inverness is quite a lively small city and close to Loch Ness, Fort George, Culloden, Black Isle. Ullapool is about two hours from Inverness and also a stunning location with the route from there to Kylesku being a favourite but there are too many excellent places for one three week visit as said.

I think you are going to have the most marvelous trip.

I think midges are overestimated, unless you choose to wander up hills where there are lots of farm animals, where you are likely to be eaten alive in my experience (maybe more so in Ireland).