UK Private Guide Sightseeing Tours
Scotland Bound - 6 Days

The highlight of this tour is Edinburgh, "the Athens of the North", widely regarded as one of Europe's most handsome cities, and the scenic peaceful part of Scotland to the South that so inspired Robert Burns and Sir Walter Scott which for centuries was in the midst of turbulent border warfare and bears the scars in the once magnificent abbeys at Jedburgh, Melrose, Kelso and Dryburgh still awe-inspiring in their ruined state.

Pictured: Palace at Holyroodhouse

Your route takes you via Cambridge, with college buildings of all architectural styles beautifully situated along the River Cam. Visit Stamford, a picturesque historic town developed by the Romans, the Saxons, the Danes and the Normans, with a mixture of Georgian mansions,

Queen Anne homes and Tudor buildings and Burghley House one of England's grandest Elizabethan houses or Chatsworth, home of the Dukes of Devonshire built between 1687 to 1707.Continue to York for your first two nights. Take a walk along the ancient city walls offering beautiful views, see the fine Minster, largest Gothic Cathedral in England with exquisite stained glass windows and the "Shambles", a perfectly preserved street of Medieval half-timbered houses. On your way North cross Hadrian's Wall a 73 mile coast to coast wall , built by the Romans circa 120 AD and the romantic ruins of Jedburgh and Melrose Abbey where the heart of Robert the Bruce is buried. On your way to Edinburgh see Sir Walter Scott's home, Abbotsford House, Kelso a market town which he described as "the most beautiful in Scotland" and Floors Castle, Scotland's largest inhabited castle

owned by the Duke of Roxburghe. You will have two nights in Edinburgh to enjoy this elegant, stimulating city. See its museums and galleries, fine Castle, the Palace of Holyroodhouse, the Royal Mile, Princes Street and Hopetoun House, one of Scotland's finest stately homes. On your fourth day visit ruined Linlithgow Palace - birthplace of Mary Queen of Scots and drive through Robert Burns country via Gretna Green where under-age eloping lovers could be married without their parents' consent before entering the Lake District to stay the night. This is a region of majestic mountain scenery, lakes and lush valleys dotted with sheep: visit Wordsworth's birthplace or Levens Hall, a fine, privately owned Elizabethan home. Your return to London will take you through Stratford-upon-Avon immortalised by Shakespeare, see his birthplace and Anne Hathaway's Cottage, the picturesque region of the Cotswolds and Oxford, England's oldest university dating back to the 11th century.

Tour
Duration

Medium
(Upto 2 Pax)

Large
(Upto 4 Pax)

XL
(Upto 7 Pax)

Minbus
(Upto 12 Pax)

6 Days

£2050.00

£2600

£2130

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