A weekend in the Scottish Highlands. With a seven-year-old. The very thought brings back childhood memories of seemingly endless drives up the west coast, riding the high-speed chicane of a road up the banks of Loch Lomond towards the ‘proper mountains’. But there are easier, slightly more accessible, ways of getting a taste of the real Scotland. It’s motorway all the way through the central belt to Stirling, and from here you’re in the heart of that bit of the country that likes to call itself the ‘gateway to the Highlands’. Rattling up the A9 you’re bombard with brown tourist board signs to no-end of ice-cream factory, chocolatier cafe and interactive visitor attraction. Not to mention Stirling Castle itself (genuinely as beautiful as Edinburgh). Pitlochry, about an hour north of Stirling, attracts coach loads of visitors to its streets crammed with tartan shops, cafes and purveyors of whisky-flavoured ice cream. This is Proper Tourist Scotland. Distilleries? Check. Fly-fishing? Check. Nearby scenes of Jacobite history? Check. And towering over the town is the estate of the Atholl Palace Hotel, which opened as a spa establishment in 1878 and has been going strong ever since, bar a break for the Second World… Read full this story
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