Cheap season for Scotland?

[Caradoc]

there is literally thousands o' things tae see an dae in Scotland... dinnae think ya "HAVE TO" dae it a' in yin trip.... ya cannae see it a'!

No kidding.

The other thing to keep in mind if you're traveling in Scotland in late October/early November (or even throughout the winter, on into spring) is that you're not going to have much daylight. I think we were getting maybe six hours of "daylight" when we were there - it was definitely getting "dark" by 4PMish.

Here's what we did:

Sunday morning, arrive Edinburgh, walk the Royal Mile, make tour arrangements.
Monday - take the tours we'd arranged (The Real Mary King's Close is a good tour!)
Tuesday - got married. Halloween parade right under our hotel room window, too...
Wednesday - drove from Edinburgh to Dumfries, had dinner with the proprietors of the Ferintosh Guest House, overnighted there.
Thursday - drove down to Sweetheart Abbey, got pictures, back to Dumfries for lunch, back down to Caerlaverock Castle in the afternoon, then drove to Glasgow.
Friday - day trip via train to Stirling. Walked a lot because the Big Red Bus had shut down for the winter.
Saturday - drove from Glasgow to Oban. Exciting drive. Not so much in a good way. Nice views of Loch Lomond on the way, though, when not interrupted by ongoing fish lorries. Bonfire Night in Oban. Fun!
Sunday - Oban. Dunstaffnage Castle. The Folly on the hill whose name escapes me... Someone's Tower, as I recall.
Monday - Oban. All over Oban. Took the ferry out to Mull and back.
Tuesday - Drove from Oban to Inverness.
Wednesday - Drove back from Inverness to Loch Ness, then back through Inverness down through Perth and Dundee to St. Andrews.
Thursday - wandered all over St. Andrews, then drove back down to Edinburgh to overnight before flying back to the States on Friday morning.

By the end of it all, we were exhausted. We're planning our next trip to be mostly in one city (likely Glasgow for the upcoming trip) and doing all of our traveling by train or bus on day trips from our base of operations.