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4: Edinburgh to Glasgow Or you could just go directly from Edinburgh to Glasgow on your way
south.

Directly by the fastest way Route 6 on the map

Via Stirling Routes 1 and 2 on the map

Via Stirling and Loch Lomond Routes1 and 7 on the map

The roads south from Glasgow offer a choice between a direct run to Keswick in the Lake District
or a diversion to Ayr, the land of Robbie Burns.

5: Glasgow to Ayr Route 8 on the map

6: Ayr to Keswick Route 9 on the map

7: Glasgow to Keswick Route 10 on the map

Whichever tour combo you put together you will be well rewarded with the experience of Scottish
history, culture and above all, the friendliness and warmth of the Scots. Dour they may seem, but
that doesn’t mean they won’t welcome visitors with open arms.

Edinburgh to Lochearnhead

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You can put together any one of a number of combinations here. You could, for instance,
take a day trip from Edinburgh into the Highlands to visit Stirling Castle and the oldest
whisky distillery in Scotland.

So this touring route will take you from Edinburgh to Lochearnhead and back to Stirling.

Or you could make it a two day trip on your way south again. From Lochearnhead you could head
west to Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park for a sampler of true Highland
countryside.

Either way you get to see the splendour of Stirling Castle, try a wee dram of whisky at Scotland’s
oldest distillery, visit the famous Gleneagles Golf Course if you are a keen golfer or just curious.

But in many ways the more rewarding part of this journey is that it takes you into the
Highlands. Not far, mark you, but far enough to get a close up view of the grandeur, the splendour
of the wild Highlands countryside.

I once asked myself “Why are you suggesting visitors take this trip, from Crieff to Lochearnhead
and back through the Trossachs, and that was the answer. To visit what many from the outside
perceive to be the real Scotland, the Highlands.

The boundary between the Highlands and the Lowlands is a diagonal that runs from Dumbarton in
the west to Stonehaven in the north-east. You’ll cross over it on the run from Stirling to Crieff –
Blackford, home to the Tullibardine Distillery, is often considered the gateway to the highlands.