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    Mini Kilt Tours Self-Drive Touring Guide Stirling to Fort William via Glencoe
    Mini Kilt Tours Self-Drive Touring Guide Stirling to Fort William via Glencoe
    Mini Kilt Tours Self-Drive Touring Guide Stirling to Fort William via Glencoe
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    Mini Kilt Tours Self-Drive Touring Guide Stirling to Fort William via Glencoe

    By Andrea Middleton

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    A self-drive touring guide from Stirling to Fort William. Written by Andrea Middleton, an official Blue Badge Guide for Scotland with over 15 years experience, and herself a native of Scotland.
    Take yourself on a trip from Stirling to Fort William as if you have your own personal tour guide with you, giving commentary, stories, folklore and legend, to make the area come alive, unlike standard guide books. Discover what this route has to offer as you drive into the Highlands. Hear the stories of Rob Roy and the Glencoe Massacre. go off the beaten track to discover beautiful hidden gems of scenery and older tracks. Directions are also given to keep you on the right track. All you have to do now is set off and enjoy

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAndrea Middleton
    Release dateApr 20, 2015
    ISBN9781310512612
    Mini Kilt Tours Self-Drive Touring Guide Stirling to Fort William via Glencoe
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    Andrea Middleton

    A professionally qualified Scottish Tourist Guide for over 15 years, I wanted to allow visitors to Scotland to take me on tour with them but not have to pay for a private tour guide. So I came up with the idea of the 'Self-Drive Touring Guide' series of books which anyone can download and take away on their holiday/vacation to Scotland. Unlike other guide books I provide not only the history but the folklores and legends along the route to give you the full Scottish experience. Directions and handy hints also help you to make the most of the journey.

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      Mini Kilt Tours Self-Drive Touring Guide Stirling to Fort William via Glencoe - Andrea Middleton

      Deanston Distillery is built in an old cotton weaving mill that brought the town prosperity in the Industrial Age. The distillery ceased production in 1982 for 8 years until it was bought in 1990 by Burns Stewart Distillers Limited. The new visitor centre that opened in 2012 will inform and fascinate you of the history of whisky as well as going through the process of whisky making. It also tells of the cotton industry in the area.

      Tours can be made of the distillery for a small fee but the gift shop and cafe are open to everyone.

      The distillery recently featured in the film ‘The Angels Share’.

      >> Go back to A84, turn left and go over bridge into Doune. Look right as you cross the bridge to see Doune Castle

      DOUNE

      Your approach to Doune will take you over the River Teith. Look to the right as you cross over the River Teith and you will see Doune Castle.

      I can tell you many facts about this castle; I could tell you it is a fine example of a 14th century enclosure tower house and you might say ‘whatever’; I could say it was home to the Dukes of Albany, cousins to the royal family and you might say ‘ok’; but if I tell you this is where a movie was filmed you might start to get interested. Even better, the movie that was filmed here was ‘Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail’. Imagine the French soldiers inside taunting you and the Trojan rabbit outside!

      Recent filming here also saw Doune Castle used as a location in the pilot for ’Game of Thrones’ where the insides were used as Winterfell; and becomes Castle Leoch in the Outlander series.

      Doune was a town where Highland cattle drovers would arrange to meet before heading south into the lowlands to reach the big cattle markets at Falkirk and Carlisle. However, the Highlanders and Lowlanders were suspicious of each other. They spoke a different language from each other and had a different culture. This meant they found it difficult to understand each other. So Highlanders would arrange to meet here, just into the Lowlands, to travel south together, safety in numbers. So this is where the saying comes from, they would arrange to meet "Armed to the

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