Lonely Planet Scotland

Neil Wilson, Sophie McGrath, Andy Symington

Description

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Lonely Planet Scotland is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Sip the water of life, whisky, in an ancient pub, trace the trails of the clanspeople fleeing Glen Coe, or play a round in St Andrew's, golf's spiritual home -all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Scotland and begin your journey now! Inside Lonely Planet Scotland Travel Guide: Full-colour maps and images throughout Highlights and itineraries help you tailor your trip to your personal needs and interests Insider tips to save time and money and get around like a local, avoiding crowds and trouble spots Essential info at your fingertips - hours of operation, phone numbers, websites, transit tips, prices Honest reviews for all budgets - eating, sleeping, sight-seeing, going out, shopping, hidden gems that most guidebooks miss Cultural insights give you a richer, more rewarding travel experience - castles, lochs & mountains, islands, literature, food & drink, museums, culture, wildlife, the land Free, convenient pull-out Edinburgh map (included in print version), plus over 50 colour maps Covers Edinburgh, Glasgow, Highlands & Islands, Inverness & the Central Highlands, Orkney & Shetland and more The Perfect Choice: Lonely Planet Scotland , our most comprehensive guide to Scotland, is perfect for both exploring top sights and taking roads less travelled. Looking for a guide focused on the Highlands and Islands or Edinburgh? Check out Lonely Planet Scotland's Highlands and Islands guide for a comprehensive look at all these regions have to offer; or Pocket Edinburgh a handy-sized guide focused on the can't-miss sights for a quick trip. About Lonely Planet: Since 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel media company with guidebooks to every destination, an award-winning website, mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planet covers must-see spots but also enables curious travellers to get off beaten paths to understand more of the culture of the places in which they find themselves. The world awaits! 'Lonely Planet. It's on everyone's bookshelves, it's in every traveller's hands. It's on mobile phones. It's on the Internet. It's everywhere, and it's telling entire generations of people how to travel the world.' - Fairfax Media 'Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other.' - New York Times eBook Features: (Best viewed on tablet devices and smartphones) Downloadable PDF and offline maps prevent roaming and data charges Effortlessly navigate and jump between maps and reviews Add notes to personalise your guidebook experience Seamlessly flip between pages Bookmarks and speedy search capabilities get you to key pages in a flash Embedded links to recommendations' websites Zoom-in maps and images Inbuilt dictionary for quick referencing Important Notice: The digital edition of this book may not contain all of the images found in the physical edition.

Sujets

• Escocia
• Scotland

Informations

• Publié par: Lonely Planet
• Date de parution: 01 avril 2019
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781788685764
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 38 Mo

Extrait

Scotland

Contents

Plan Your Trip

Welcome to Scotland
Scotland’s Top 16
Need to Know
First Time Scotland
What’s New
If You Like…
Month by Month
Itineraries
Outdoor Activities
Regions at a Glance

On The Road

EDINBURGH
History
Sights
Activities
Tours
Festivals & Events
Sleeping
Eating
Drinking & Nightlife
Entertainment
Shopping
Information
Getting There & Away
Getting Around
Around Edinburgh
Queensferry
Inchcolm
North Berwick & Around
Linlithgow
GLASGOW
History
Sights
Activities
Tours
Festivals & Events
Sleeping
Eating
Drinking & Nightlife
Entertainment
Shopping
Information
Getting There & Away
Getting Around
Around Glasgow
Paisley
Greenock & Gourock
Blantyre
SOUTHERN SCOTLAND
Borders Region
Peebles
Melrose
Around Melrose
Selkirk
Hawick
Jedburgh
Kelso
Around Kelso
Eyemouth
Coldingham & St Abbs
South Lanarkshire
Lanark & New Lanark
Biggar
Ayrshire
Largs
Troon
Ayr
Alloway
Culzean Castle
Crossraguel Abbey
Turnberry
Ailsa Craig
Dumfries & Galloway
Dumfries
Ruthwell Cross
Caerlaverock
New Abbey
Annandale & Eskdale
Castle Douglas & Around
Kirkcudbright
Galloway Forest Park
The Machars
Stranraer
The Rhinns of Galloway
Portpatrick
CENTRAL SCOTLAND
Stirling Region
Stirling
Dunblane
Doune
Fife
Culross
Dunfermline
Aberdour
Falkland
St Andrews
East Neuk
Lowland Perthshire & Kinross
Perth
Kinross & Loch Leven
Upper Strathearn
Crieff
Blairgowrie & Around
Scottish Castles
NORTHEAST SCOTLAND
Dundee & Angus
Dundee
Broughty Ferry
Glamis Castle
Arbroath
Kirriemuir
Edzell
Aberdeenshire
Aberdeen
Around Aberdeen
Stonehaven
Strathdon
Moray
Elgin
Dufftown & Aberlour
Banff & Macduff
Portsoy
Scotland’s Islands
SOUTHERN HIGHLANDS & ISLANDS
Loch Lomond & The Trossachs
Loch Lomond
Crianlarich & Tyndrum
Arrochar
The Trossachs
South Argyll
Cowal
Bute
Inveraray
Crinan Canal
Kilmartin Glen
Kintyre
Islay
Jura
Colonsay
Arran
Brodick & Around
Corrie to Lochranza
Lochranza
West Coast
South Coast
Lamlash
Oban, Mull, Iona & Tiree
Oban
Around Oban
Mull
Iona
Tiree
Coll
North Argyll
Loch Awe
Connel & Taynuilt
INVERNESS & THE CENTRAL HIGHLANDS
Inverness & the Great Glen
Inverness
Around Inverness
West of Inverness
Black Isle
Loch Ness
The Cairngorms
Aviemore
Around Aviemore
Grantown-on-Spey
Kingussie & Newtonmore
Tomintoul & Around
Cockbridge to Tomintoul Road
Royal Deeside
The Angus Glens
Highland Perthshire
Dunkeld & Birnam
Pitlochry
Blair Atholl
Lochs Tummel & Rannoch
Aberfeldy
Kenmore
Loch Tay & Ben Lawers
Fortingall
Glen Lyon
West Highlands
Glen Coe
Kinlochleven
Fort William
Around Fort William
Ardnamurchan
Road to the Isles
Knoydart
Small Isles
Rum
Eigg
Canna
Muck
Lochs & Mountains
NORTHERN HIGHLANDS & ISLANDS
East Coast
Strathpeffer
Tain
Bonar Bridge & Around
Lairg & Around
Dornoch
Golspie
Helmsdale
Caithness
Helmsdale to Lybster
Wick
John O’Groats
Mey
Thurso & Scrabster
North & West Coast
Thurso to Durness
Durness
Durness to Ullapool
Ullapool
Ullapool to Kyle of Lochalsh
Kyle of Lochalsh
Kyle to the Great Glen
Skye
Kyleakin (Caol Acain)
Broadford (An T-Ath Leathann)
Armadale & Sleat
Isleornsay
Elgol (Ealaghol)
Cuillin Hills
Minginish
Portree (Port Righ)
Dunvegan (Dun Bheagain)
Duirinish & Waternish
Trotternish
Raasay
Outer Hebrides
Lewis (Leodhais)
Harris (Na Hearadh)
Berneray (Bearnaraigh)
North Uist (Uibhist A Tuath)
Benbecula (Beinn Na Faoghla)
South Uist (Uibhist A Deas)
Barra (Barraigh)
ORKNEY & SHETLAND
Orkney
Kirkwall
East Mainland to South Ronaldsay
West & North Mainland
Stromness
Hoy
Northern Islands
Shetland
Lerwick
Bressay & Noss
Scalloway
South Mainland
North Mainland
The North Isles

Understand

Scotland Today
History
The Scottish Larder
Scottish Culture
Natural Scotland

SURVIVAL GUIDE

Directory A–Z
Accessible Travel
Accommodation
Children
Customs Regulations
Discount Cards
Electricity
Health
Insurance
Internet Access
Language Courses
Legal Matters
LGBTIQ+ Travellers
Maps
Money
Opening Hours
Post
Public Holidays
Telephone
Time
Toilets
Tourist Information
Visas
Volunteering
Women Travellers
Work
Transport
Getting There & Away
Getting Around
Glossary
Behind the Scenes
Our Writers
Welcome to Scotland

Scotland has many treasures crammed into its compact territory – big skies, ancient architecture, spectacular wildlife, superb seafood and hospitable, down-to-earth people.

Outdoor Adventure
Scotland harbours some of the largest wilderness areas left in Western Europe. In this wildlife haven you can see golden eagles soar above the lochs and mountains of the northern Highlands, spot otters tumbling in the kelp along the shores of the Outer Hebrides, and watch minke whales breach off the coast of Mull. Scotland’s also an adventure playground: you can tramp the tundra plateaus of the Cairngorms, balance along tightrope ridges strung between the peaks of the Cuillin, sea kayak among the seal-haunted isles of the Outer Hebrides, and take a speedboat ride into the white water of the Corryvreckan whirlpool.

Turbulent History
Scotland is a land with a rich, multilayered history, a place where every corner of the landscape is steeped in the past – a deserted croft on an island shore, a moor that was once a battlefield, a cave that sheltered Bonnie Prince Charlie. Hundreds of castles, from the plain but forbidding tower houses of Hermitage and Smailholm to the elaborate machicolated fortresses of Caerlaverock and Craigmillar, testify to the country’s often turbulent past. And battles that played a pivotal part in the building of a nation are remembered and brought to life at sites such as Bannockburn and Culloden.

A Taste of Scotland
Visitors have discovered that Scotland’s restaurants have shaken off their old reputation for deep-fried food and unsmiling service and can now compete with the best in Europe. A new-found respect for top-quality local produce means that you can feast on fresh seafood mere hours after it was caught, beef and venison that was raised just a few miles away from your table, and vegetables that were grown in your hotel’s own organic garden. Top it all off with a dram of single-malt whisky – rich, complex and evocative, it’s the true flavour of Scotland.

The Culture
Be it the poetry of Robert Burns, the crime fiction of Ian Rankin or the songs of Emeli Sandé, Scotland’s cultural exports are appreciated around the world every bit as much as whisky, tweed and tartan. But you can’t beat reading Burns’ poems in the village where he was born, enjoying an Inspector Rebus novel in Rankin’s own Edinburgh, or catching the latest Scottish bands at a music festival. And museums such as Glasgow’s Kelvingrove, Dundee’s Discovery Point and Aberdeen’s Maritime Museum celebrate the influence of Scottish artists, engineers, explorers, writers and inventors in shaping the modern world.

The Trossachs | YVONNESTEWARTHENDERSON/ALAMY ©

Why I Love Scotland
By Neil Wilson, Writer
It’s the weather. Yes, seriously. We get four proper seasons here (sometimes all of them in one day) and that means that you get to enjoy the same landscapes over and over again in a range of different garbs – August hills clad in purple heather, native woodlands gilded with autumn colours, snow-patched winter mountains, and Hebridean machair sprinkled with a confetti of spring wildflowers. The unpredictability of the weather means that even the wettest day can be suddenly transformed by parting clouds and slanting shafts of golden light. Sheer magic.
For more, see Our Writers
Scotland’s Top 16

Isle of Skye
In a country famous for stunning scenery, the Isle of Skye takes top prize. From the craggy peaks of the Cuillins and the bizarre pinnacles of the Old Man of Storr (pictured) and the Quiraing to the spectacular sea cliffs of Neist Point, there’s a photo opportunity awaiting you at almost every turn. Walkers can share the landscape with red deer and golden eagles, and refuel at the end of the day in convivial pubs and top seafood restaurants.

WESTEND61 GMBH/ALAMY ©

Top Experiences
Edinburgh
Scotland’s capital may be famous for its festivals, but there’s much more to the city than that. Edinburgh is a place of many moods: visit out of season to see the Old Town silhouetted against a blue spring sky and a yellow haze of daffodils, or on a chill December morning with the fog snagging the spires of the Royal Mile, rain on the cobblestones and a warm glow beckoning from the window of a pub.

JOHN BRACEGIRDLE /ALAMY ©


Top Experiences
Loch Lomond
Despite being less than an hour’s drive from the bustle and sprawl of Glasgow, the bonnie banks and braes of Loch Lomond – immortalised in the words of one of Scotland’s best-known songs – comprise one of the most scenic parts of the country. At the heart of Scotland’s first national park, the loch begins as a broad, island-peppered lake in the south, its shores clothed in bluebell woods, narrowing in the north to a fjord-like trench ringed by 900m-high mountains.

JOHN BRACEGIRDLE/ALAMY ©

Top Experiences
Climbing Ben Nevis
The allure of Britain’s highest peak is strong – around 100,000 people a year set off up the summit trail, though not all make it to the top. Nevertheless, the highest Munro of them all is within reach of anyone who’s reasonably fit. Treat Ben Nevis with respect and your reward (weather permitting) will be a truly magnificent view and a great sense of achievement. Real walking enthusiasts can warm up by hiking the 96-mile West Highland Way first.

BRIAN BLADES/SHUTTERSTOCK