Scotland travel plans?

[robthehiker]

Me and My wife are planning a Backpacking trip next year. We are going to start in Italy and end up in Scotland. We don’t have all the details planed yet, we just decided to do this about a month ago. So any Scotland suggestions would be appreciated.

My wife and I honeymooned in Scotland in August 2001. We spent the first week in Edinburgh in a B&B on the Royal Mile. It was during the Fringe Festival and it was brilliant.

The second week we did a self-led hike from bottom to top of the Isle of Skye (though not the whole distance). We booked everything through a local outfit who planned each day's hike and booked stays in B&B's for us. They supplied good quality local maps, arranged for local transport and baggage delivery each night. They offered several different routes. One word of warning: on a couple of occasions it took some time to translate the instructions from Scottish to Canadian! Who knew that a "burn" was a "creek"??

We had one of the best meals of our lives at a place called Coruisk House in Elgol on Skye! I highly recommend it. http://www.seafood-skye.co.uk/

They were a few companies offering similar services but the one we used was http://www.scotland-inverness.co.uk/bht-main.htm

Good luck!

[robthehiker]

I just realized how old this thread is!