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Fish Scotland, Tour Scotland

catswhiskers — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 20:05:22 +0000

: Fishing, River Spey, Scotland

This evening, I am focusing on fishing for sport in Scotland. This mainly takes place on major salmon and trout rivers such as the Tay, Tweed and Spey. However, there are multiple other possibilities including numerous lochs (lakes), smaller rivers, such as the Garry, Tummel and Esk, and the sea. The fishing season runs approximately from February to October each year. Above and below is a small portfolio of fishing related images which I have accumulated in course of tours around Scotland.

Above is a fisherman on the Spey in the Scottish Highlands whilst immediately below is a fishing scene from the River Kelvin in the city of Glasgow.

Tour Dunkeld and Birnam, Tour Central Scotland

catswhiskers — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 21:35:26 +0000

Birnam Hotel, Birnam, Scotland

Today, I ventured into central Scotland with trip aided by unusual sunny weather and blue sky.

Here there are two towns with an almost seamless join, namely Birnam and Dunkeld. Both of these towns are popular with visitors to Scotland. Birnam is, perhaps, most famous for its Macbeth connection with Birnam Wood and Birnam Oak. The latter can viewed on bank of the River Tay although unlikely to be a relic from Shakespeare’s time.

Visit Aberfeldy Distillery, Visit Scotland

catswhiskers — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 19:30:56 +0000

Dewars Whisky, Aberfeldy Distillery, Scotland

This evening, the focus of my blog post is Aberfeldy Distillery in Central Scotland. This is a popular visitor centre also known as Dewars World of Whisky. Aberfeldy, together with sister distilleries, Craigellachie (Speyside), Macduff, Royal Brackla and Aultmore, is ultimately owned by Italy’s Bacardi Group.

Visit Falls of Dochart, Visit Scotland

catswhiskers — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 19:52:39 +0000

Falls of Dochart, Killin, Scotland

This evening, I am focusing on the Falls of Dochart at Killin in Perthshire.

Killin is a small but popular tourist town at the southern tip of Loch Tay. The Falls are one of the popular visitor attractions which occur where the River Dochart runs downs a rocky gradient and on into Loch Tay just a mile or so downstream. The video clip shows the falls in full spate but in the summer months the water can be subdued and allow visitors to scramble over te rocks in and around the water.

Scotland Whisky and Sighteeing Tour

catswhiskers — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 22:51:57 +0000

This morning, we departed respective Grantown on Spey lodgings about 9.00am and then drove south for about 90 mins with first stop for a photo of Blair Castle just prior to Pitlochry.

Blair Castle, Perthshire, Scotland

Private Tour Scotland

catswhiskers — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 21:20:45 +0000

This morning, I collected guests from Caledonian Hilton, Edinburgh and then proceeded as follows:

First to Dunfermline Abbey Church whose foundation dates from 1072. This is an interesting site comprising (a) the ruined Abbey (b) ruined former Royal Palace (c) the Abbey Church which is an active place of worship (Presbyterian) and location of burial of Scotland’s King Robert The Bruce (14th C). Effectively, this site was the capital of Scotland until 1603 when King James VI of Scotland moved to London to become King of England as well. We viewed all the principal aspects and availed of the scenic views towards the Firth of Forth.

Experimental Archaeology, Crannog Centre

catswhiskers — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 19:01:26 +0000

Visiting Crannog Centre, Kenmore, Scotland

This evening, I am focusing on experimental Iron-Age archaeology as performed at the Crannog Centre on Scotland’s Loch Tay in Perthshire.

The Crannog is a recreated loch dwelling from about 2500 years ago using information obtained by underwater archaeology from the remains of such a dwelling on the opposite side of Loch Tay.

Tour Central Scotland

catswhiskers — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 22:24:52 +0000

This morning, group arrived Edinburgh Airport from where we proceeded as follows:

To Killin in central Scotland but en-route we made a brief stop at Kilmahog to view Hamish the Highland Cow and undertake some shopping.

Tour Loch Ness, Tour Scotland

catswhiskers — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 22:53:16 +0000

Reenactment Medieval Lady at Doune Castle

This morning, I collected my tour group from Edinburgh New Town and then proceeded as follows:

First, about one hour drive to central Scotland with aim of visiting Stirling Castle, one of Scotland’s top tourist attractions. However, we were thwarted in our objective by no lesser a person than H.M. the Queen who was scheduled to visit the castle during the afternoon resulting in a closure of the castle to visitors until after her visit had concluded. Like many other visitors we diverted to nearby Doune Castle which has a link with Stirling Castle in that Doune was a former Royal hunting lodge for the Scottish royal family which resided at Stirling during medieval times.

Doune Castle, Doune, Scotland

River Tay, Scotland

catswhiskers — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 21:08:21 +0000

This evening, our extremely cold spell continues with temperature tonight down to minus 7 C tonight then snow then a further drop in temperature. This is very unusual at this time of year and is causing the whole country to slow down a notch, mainly due to transport disruptions as a function of the snow and ice. For a change I have decided to depart from my series of winter images and provide a little variety via a focus on the mighty River Tay.