scotland and northern ireland, small groups touring scotland and northern ireland

SCOTLAND & NORTHERN IRELAND
'Tartan and Shamrock'
14 days / 13 nights - Saturday to Friday

TENTATIVE ITINERARY - Summary	Nightstop
DAY ONE - Saturday
Highlights Scotland pretty lowland countryside, Killmarmock, Troon, scenic ferry to Larne. Northern Ireland, Lough Neagh, Armagh, Dan Winter's Cottage, Armagh county museum, Dungannon, homestead of Ulysses Simpson Grant, 18th U.S. President.	Omagh
DAY TWO - Sunday
Highlights Sperrin Mountains, walled city of Londonderry/Derry with walking tour. Donegal Famine Museum, Strabane, Georgian Gray's printing shop, Sion linen mills, Castleberg megalithic tombs, Todd's Cairn and the Druid's Altar, Ogham carvings, Ulster American Folk Park	Omagh
DAY THREE - Monday
Highlights Portstewart and Portrush. Giant's Causeway and northern coastline, Bushmills Irish Whiskey Distillery, the Georgian Carrick-a-rede rope bridge, Ballycastle, Glens of Antrim, Antrim Mountain scenic drive.	Omagh
DAY FOUR - Tuesday
Highlights Belfast panoramic tour. Ferry to Scotland Stranraer, Southern Ayreshire Robbie Burns trail, Brigadoon, Dumfries, Galloway Forest Park, world heritage site of New Lanark.	New Lanark Mill
DAY FIVE - Wednesday
Highlights New Lanark, 18th century cotton mill village, Falls of Clyde, Peebles and the Tweed Valley, Walter Scott's Abbotsford, the Mungo Park exhibition at Selkirk, wild Borders scenery, castles and fortified houses.	Farmhouse at Catlowdy
DAY SIX - Thursday
Highlights 2nd century Hadrian's Wall, market town of Hexham, Northumberland national park, Bamburgh, Dunstanburgh castles and Harry Potter's Alnwick Castle.	as above
DAY SEVEN - Friday
Highlights Breathtaking drive up Liddlesdale, Royal Burgh of Jedburgh, 900 year old Jedburgh abbey, woollen mill factory outlet, Mary Queen of Scot's house, Rosslyn Chapel ( 'Da Vinci Code' site), Borders towns, Highland cattle.	Central Glasgow
DAY EIGHT - Saturday
Highlights Glasgow, Paisley Abbey, Loch Lomond, picturesque village of Luss, Inveraray Castle and gaol, classic highland scenic drive, stone circles and burial cairns of Kilmartin.	Oban
DAY NINE - Sunday
Highlights Easdale Island, the Atlantic Bridge, Princess Diana's mother's Seil Island, Island museum, Argyll Garden, coastal and inland wildlife, evening of Scottish song and dance.	Oban
DAY TEN - Monday
Highlights Dunstaffnage Castle, Flora MacDonald prison, Loch Awe, Cruachan Power Station with visitor's train inside the mountain, magical Glen Orchy, Rannoch Moor, Glencoe, the Glen of Weeping, the coast road back to Oban.	Oban
DAY ELEVEN - Tuesday
Highlights Pass of Brander, classic southern Highland country of glen, loch and brae, the tomb and tumbledown house of Highland robber and sometime 'patriot', Rob Roy, shopping in Callander, Stirling Castle, 'Braveheart' country.	Falkirk area
DAY TWELVE - Wednesday
Highlights Royal Kingdom of Fife, 17th century fishing village of Culross, 900 year old Dunfermline abbey, Robert The Bruce' spectacular brass plaque, Carnegie Hall, Pittencrieff Park, Loch Leven, another (!) Mary, Queen of Scots prison. Abernethy Peel Tower. traditional fishing village of Anstruther, museum of fishing, the best fish and chips in the UK!	Anstruther
DAY THIRTEEN - Thursday
Highlights Dundee, Caingorm Mountains, Spittal Of Glenshee, Glen Dye, Lochnagar Forest and the Devil's Elbow, Queens Scottish residence of Balmoral, Glamis Castle, the Meigle's collection of Pictish sculpted stones, the Tay Road Bridge and Robert Scott's Antartic ship 'Discovery'.	Anstruther
DAY FOURTEEN - Friday
Highlights The Royal and Ancient Golf Club at St Andrews, the Royal Palace at Falkland. picturesque villages of the East Neuk of Fife, Crail harbour and Crail Pottery, Robinson Crusoe and time permitting, secret underground Cold War bunker. Return to Glasgow via Edinburgh. Accommodation tonight is not included in your tour price.
NOTES: . Click here for full itinerary . Additional pre/post tour accommodation: from £50 twin-share pp, B&B / £60 single . Airport transfers to/from central Glasgow: £45 for up to three persons sharing