Scottish Mystery Writers Tour & "Bloody Scotland" Festival
September 4-18, 2012
What's Included
Included in the tour price are the following:
- Lodging for 3 nights in Inverness, 3 nights in either Plockton or Skye, 4 nights in Edinburgh, and 4 nights in Stirling
- All breakfasts, 7 lunches, 10 dinners, 1 morning coffee, 1 afternoon tea
- Transport from and to either Glasgow or Edinburgh Airport, all entrance fees, and daily transfers to sites
- In Inverness, a talk by writer Shona Maclean and a talk on Josephine Tey
- Visits to Culloden battle site, Clava Cairns, and Cawdor Castle, Fort Augustus, Invergarry (Well of the Seven Heads), Eilean Donan Castle
- Visit to a typical Hamish Macbeth village (creation of M.C. Beaton), a Calum's seal trip, Talisker distillery (Skye), Kyle of Lochalsh Centre
- A drive through Glencoe and Loch Lomond, lunch at the haunted Drover's Inn
- In Edinburgh: the Writers' Museum, the Scottish Storytelling Center, the National Museum of Scotland, Holyrood Palace (if open), Underground Vaults, Conan Doyle pub, Old School of Medicine, mystery literature sites, Rosslyn Chapel, Rankin and Rebus tour, Stevenson's Edinburgh, talks by Edinburgh mystery and crime writers
- Attendance at the first "Bloody Scotland" festival and "meet the author" dinners, day trip to Traquair, oldest inhabited house in Scotland, and John Buchan Centre, Broughton
- A sightseeing tour of Stirling and a day trip to Glasgow
- Tips to hotels and restaurants, including porterage at hotels (but not for the Blue Badge guide and coach driver—that will be at your own discretion)
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