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Scotland The Best: New and fully updated 12th edition of Scotland’s bestselling guide

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Visit Craigievar Castle - this beautifully pre­served pink castle is reputed to have inspired Walt Disney. For opulence and contemporary art, stay at The Fife Arms, recently refurbished and redesigned by international art dealers lwan and Manuela Wirth. Through the lenses of inspired photographers, meticulous in their craft and immersed in their subjects, we may see the Scottish islands afresh: their rare beauty, atmosphere and essence.’ The Glencoe Mountain Ski Resort has excellent snow runs that often remain open into April each year. A ferry from Wemyss Bay delivers you to the Art Deco seaside resort of Rothesay with its kitsch ice cream parlours, palm trees and promenade. Bute is a small island in the Firth of Clyde full of character and dotted with heather-clad moorlands, beaches, and coves. It has reinvented itself as a popular location for outdoor holidays, offering hiking, cycling, and fishing spots. You will still find scrambly walks and ridges with impressive views. Goatfell is the highest peak on the island close to the waterfall on Glenrosa Water. Cir Mhor is the most recognisable of the cliffs in the north Arran hills. It sits above the Blue Pool, a popular wild swimming spot.

Trusted for over 20 years, this fully comprehensive and independent guide to Scotland gives you only the very best recommendations, whatever your budget. Food & Drink: Stop by Victoria's Vintage Tea Roomsfor tea and cake. Indulge in delicious chocolate brownies, freshly made scones and Victoria sponge, using only the best ingredients. Alternatively you can settle in and enjoy endless cups of tea, with portions of fudge and tablet from the colourful collection of local tearooms and souvenir shops. From their first arrival in late spring to the raucous feeding frenzies of high summer, the vast colonies of gannets, guillemots, skua, puffins and kittiwakes at Hermaness, Noss, Sumburgh Head and Fair Isle provide some of Britain's most impressive birdwatching experiences. Things to do:Visit Balmoral Castle, the Scottish residence of the British Royal family. From April until August, the grounds, gardens and exhibitions are open to the public. A trip to Scotland wouldn’t be complete without some whisky tasting. Enjoy a distillery tour at Royal Lochnagar Distillerywhere you’ll learn the history behind one of Scotland’s most exclusive whiskies.

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Food & Drink:Make a reservation at The Waggon Inn . This family restaurant caters for all tastes and budgets. Food & Drink:Seek shelter at The Brig & Barrel . You’ll be served with a warm and exceptional service with delicious hearty pub fare. The pub is dog-friendly too so make sure to bring your beloved pooch along.

Loch Fyne extends some 40 miles inland from the Sound of Bute. At the head of the loch is Cairndow, surrounded by hills and home to both Loch Fyne Oysters and Fyne Ales - making it the ideal place for a food-focused trip in a beautiful location.About as far north as you can go in Scotland without hitting Norway, the island of Unst is a sparsely inhabited bump of land perched at the edge of the world. The landscape has been worn low and smooth by endless centuries of scouring winds, but where humans struggle to survive, seabirds thrive, and the place to encounter them is the legendary Hermaness National Nature Reserve.

Fyne Ales has a strong environmental ethos. As Smith explains: "The envi­ronment, the land, the estate, is really important to us. Whatever activities we do, we always try to keep it neutral, either not taking from the land and if we can, trying to enhance it. All our brewing water is rainwater that collects on the hills." Spent grain is fed to the estate's herds of red deer and highland cattle. With a coastal outlook and train connections to Edinburgh, you can enjoy this seaside town and hop on the train to the capital too.Some of the features and locations chosen are iconic and renowned internationally, like the preternatural-seeming Fingal’s Cave with its basalt columns on the Isle of Staff a’s coast, or the fiery Norse-inspired Up Helly Aa festival that takes place in Shetland each year. The Kintyre Peninsula is home to a long stretch of deserted coastline, perfect for an escape from reality. The next village along, Port Wemyss, has views of the uninhabited island of Orsay and the Rhinns of Islay lighthouse, built in 1825 by the Stevenson lighthouse builders. The Great Western Bridge over the River Kelvin is the most recognisable landmark in an area of Glasgow that sits at the centre of a resurgent West End. The Kelvinbridge neighbourhood is home to some of the city’s most interesting independent businesses, set on and around the grand boulevard of Great Western Road with its period residential architecture and bohemian atmosphere. The reality of Jura, though, is far from dystopian, though the rainfall can be wearing. Warm your insides on a tasting trip to the Isle of Jura Distillery, which relies on the abundant water supply for its well-regarded single malt. If whisky isn’t your poison, head instead to the Lussa Gin Distillery; while you’re here, you can walk to the northern tip of Jura to view the " Scottish Maelstrom" – a surging whirlpool that becomes a boiling cauldron during flooding spring tides. Commune with birdlife on Unst, Shetland

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