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Scottish Highland Trails can provide experienced, professional guides for any and all aspects of your trip to Scotland. We offer accompanied tours with a local guide who will be with you throughout your trip, taking care of the practical arrangements as well as providing you...

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Day Tours

Departing from Edinburgh or Glasgow Private chauffeur drive tours Services of a Scottish Highland Trails car/van and driver/guide Providing there is enough time to get you there and back in a day from Edinburgh or Glasgow we can take you anywhere! Popular options for day...

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Scottish Highlands

Plockton

Plockton is a picturesque settlement on the shores of Loch Carron. It faces east, away from the prevailing winds, which together with the North Atlantic Drift gives it a mild climate allowing the Cordyline australis palm or cabbage tree to prosper.

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Day Tours

Discover Scotland with your own Scottish Highland Trails car and driver/guide Departing from Edinburgh or Glasgow Private chauffeur drive tours Services of a Scottish Highland Trails car/van and driver/guide Our cars can seat up to 8 people Providing there is enough time to get you...

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The Little White Rose

All 69 Scottish Nationalist Party members of parliament wore white roses in their lapels at the swearing in ceremony of the Scottish parliament a few years back and I was recently asked why? The thistle is usually thought to be our national flower. The story...

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Main Street of abandoned cottages on the island of Hirta, St Kilda

New link to St Kilda from Skye

A historic link to the remote island archipelago of St Kilda has been restored with the launch of a new boat service from Uig in the Isle of Skye. Visitors will now be able to sail from Uig to St Kilda with a journey time...

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Blackness Castle, the ship that never sailed

Yesterday was bright and breezy and saw us heading out along the Firth of Forth on Scotland’s east coast to visit the impressive Blackness Castle. Blackness was built in the 1440s by the powerful Crichton family, and was used not as a family residence but...

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Some of the best museums & galleries in Edinburgh

There are some great museums and galleries in Edinburgh, with loads to see from Rodin’s The Kiss to Dolly the Sheep! And best of all, many of them are free 🙂 So whether you are after some culture, some ideas for somewhere to take the kids...

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The Hebridean Islands, Welcome to our blog

The Isle of Barra

Scotland has many beautiful islands, and it is often hard to choose exactly which ones to visit if you only have a limited time to spend here. Most of you will no doubt have heard of the Isle of Skye, and also places like Orkney...

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Congrats to Perth!

Congratulations to Perth! It’s to become Scotland’s 7th city after winning a UK wide competition to mark the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. Perth was a town of great importance in olden times. At Scone, just 2 miles from present day Perth, the early kings and queens...

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