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Tips for Drivers
Hazards Watch out for sharp
bends and animals on the roads
in the Highlands. The sudden
noise of jets above the glens can
also startle drivers. Minor roads
are often single track. Snowfall
may result in road closures.
Fuel Fill up your car with fuel in
towns, as there are few filling
stations in rural areas.
Unapool Passing through Royal Deeside in
the eastern Grampians, this route links
Perth with Aberdeen, crossing a
Lochinver 700­m (2,000­ft) pass before descend­
ing to Balmoral Castle. The stretch
Ullapool
from Braemar is on pages 148–9.
Poolewe
Gairloch Braemore
Torridon
Elgin
Shieldaig
Inverness
Kyle of
Lochalsh
Aberdeen St Andrews (see p127) and the historic
fishing villages of East Fife can be reached
Mallaig
Braemar from Edinburgh over the Forth Bridge, and
back via the hunting palace of the Stuart
kings at Falkland (see p128).
Fort
William
Blairgowrie
A tour of Walter
Scott’s Country
Crianlarich Crieff Perth takes in the River
St Andrews Tweed Valley,
Callander Falkland with its attractive
Inveraray hills, market
Tarbet
Stirling Kirkcaldy towns and an
arboretum at
Dawyck.
Edinburgh
Glasgow
Peebles
Coldstream
Melrose Abbey is one of the highlights of a tour
Melrose Kelso taking in attractive Border towns, the famous
Ayr Border Abbeys and Scott’s View – one of the
Campbeltown finest viewpoints in southern Scotland. More
details of part of this tour are on page 89.
Dumfries
Stirling, with its castle,
Stranraer is the base from which
to explore the high
mountains of Breadal­
bane. The route passes
From Glasgow, this route through Callander, past
includes Loch Lomond, Rob Roy’s grave and Loch
Lochearnhead and Earn. It then climbs over
Balquhidder. Just north of
Callander, it turns west into a mountain pass down
the Trossachs. Heading back to Glen Lyon, one of the
via Drymen, there is access most beautiful glens, and
to Loch Lomond. on through Crieff.

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