Visiting Scotland Tips?

[federkeil]

Help us out a tad. What parts of Scotland are you actually visiting? Are your interests, more town and city, rather than country? What is your means of transport? Where is your trip starting and ending for the Scottish part of your trip?

how things stand is we have about 22 days for the islands, with 6 in England at London and Bath. We want to do ~10 days in Ireland which leaves no more than 8 for Scotland, possibly closer to 6 depending on what we decide in the end.

From Bath we'll be heading up to Edinburgh, we want to see the Castle, Royal Mile and Arthur's Seat. I want to stop by Rendall's and get a traditional Colquhoun Tartan tank (obviously measured with delivery home when it's finished).

Aside from that our general interests lie in topography and natural history. We love hiking and castles and such. We aren't so much interested in art, music, literature, etc...

Transportation will probably be the Ride and Drive pass. And we will be going from West Scotland to N. Ireland