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Thread #117484   Message #2532295
Posted By: VirginiaTam
05-Jan-09 - 03:48 PM
Thread Name: BS: VTam Scotland July 2009: What to do?
Subject: RE: BS: VTam Scotland July 2009: What to do?
Thanks Jack good info to know. Wonder would someone give Sabine a nudge this way?

Woohoo John! Great link.

PoppaGator- I know about the light cause I've done 2 summer holidays in Scotland. It is wondeful. And were it not for my arthritis and SADS, I would retire to Scotland. If I had the money, I would have a little cottage or croft in Scotland as a holiday place. sigh.

My first night camping in Scotland it was lovely to see a full moon rise between two rocky outcrops in the sea near Oban. It was 10:00pm or thereabouts and the sky was an incredible deep deep blue. Visited Kilmartin Glen, standing stones and cairns, Dunadd (my foot fit), and cup and ring marks, Glencoe (my favorite bit of Scotland), and Rannoch Moor. Did a couple of seal watching trips and visited the seal rescue centre, Dunstaffnage, Callander, Doune, Dockhart Falls, Crannog reconstruction at Loch Tay, Stirling, Edinburgh, Jedburgh, number of lochs, castles, loads of driving around chasing heather and sunshine and little winding streams.

This holiday we plan to go farther north and west. And really want some music experiences.

We will probably be arriving in Oban on 14 July stay 1 or 2 nights then start making our way north towards Ullapool then back down to Oban or Callendar between 21 and 24 July, depending on how long we want to spend. Plan to visit Skye for 2 or 3 days. Maybe the Stornoway unless, anyone advises against the fesitival (see link in first post).

What I would like to do is find out what on (musically) where and then decide where to go based on that information.

So I will contact the Visitor Centres. Any other Cats advice is apprectiated.

Tamara