HUGH G ALLISON    Tel: 07743 473081
Take a tour with the Scottish Talespinner, and find that your Scottish holiday suddenly takes on more depth and meaning, and some more humour too.

List of Guided Tours  (also any personalised itinerary considered)

Tour

Time

Name and description

Cost

2a

2 hrs

Distillery Tour to Tomatin, returning via the Bronze Age Clava Cairns

£80

2b

2 hrs

Distillery Tour to Benromach, returning via Sueno’s carved Pictish Stone

£80

2c

2 hrs

Distillery Tour to GlenOrd, returning along the shores of the Beauly Firth

£80

3a

2 hrs

Inverness panoramic tour and Shopping trip to Pringle’s Holm Mills

£80

3b

3 hrs

Clava Stone Circles and Culloden Battlefield

£100

4a

4 hrs

Elgin city, Cathedral, Pictish Stones & Shopping-Johnstons Cashmere Mills

£120

4b

4 hrs

The Black Isle, Fortrose Cathedral, Cromarty (Hugh Miller & Ghosts)

£120

4c

4 hrs

Wildlife special, to some off-the-beaten track locations

£120

5a

5 hrs

Coastal drive, Elgin city, & Shopping at Baxters of Speyside

£140

5b

5 hrs

Strathspey, Cairngorms and Scottish Wildlife park

£140

5c

5 hrs

Cawdor Castle, Nairn Beach & Harbour, maybe Dolphins, and Fort George

£140

6a

6 hrs

Circular Loch Ness Tour, lunch in the picturesque Fort Augustus

£160

7a

7 hrs

Eilean Donan Castle, the Glenelg Brochs, and Gavin Maxwell Otter country

£175

7b

7 hrs

Clava Cairns, Cawdor Castle, Culloden Battlefield, Fort George – From the Bronze Age thru’ medieval times, Jacobean, Georgian, & up to 21st Century

£175

8a

8 hrs

Great Glen, Ben Nevis, Braveheart/Rob Roy locations, Fort William

£190

8b

8 hrs

Glenmorangie Distillery, Dunrobin Castle, and Dornoch (Cathedral and Rosamunde Pilcher Locations)

£190

8c

8 hrs

Harry Potter locations-Glenfinnan, Caledonian Canal, Commando memorial

£190

9a

9 hrs

Diana Gabaldon Outlander Tour – Craig na Dun, Culloden, Castle Leoch,

                                                        Lallybroch, Beauly and other locations

£210

9b

9 hrs

Dark Deeds – Brodie Castle, Elgin City, Pluscarden Abbey, Cawdor Castle

£210

9c

9 hrs

Eilean Donan Castle (the most romantic castle in the Highlands) and the Isle of Skye (views of the Black Cuillin Mountains)

£210

9d

9 hrs

Loch Ness, Urquhart Castle, and the last great remnant of the Caledonian Pine Forest

£210

9e

9 hrs

The Malt Whisky Trail, Elgin, Culloden Battlefield, and Clava Cairns

£210

10a

10 hrs

Fort William and Glencoe

£240

11a

11 hrs

John O Groats and the north coast

£270

11b

11 hrs

Aberdeen and the east coast

£270

11c

11 hrs

Isle of Skye and the west coast (approx £40 additional ferry costs)

£270

18a

2 days

(9hr day)

Isle of Skye special (Guide subsistence costs a further £60 per night)

I can also advise on accommodation for you

£200

p. day

18b

2 days

Isles of Orkney special (Guide subsistence costs a further £60 per night, and also ferry costs) I can also advise on accommodation for you

£200

p. day

27a

3 days

& more

From Glasgow to Inverness (guide subsistence costs a further £60 per night)

I can also advise on accommodation for you

£170 p. day

27b

3 days

& more

From Edinburgh to Inverness (guide subsistence costs a further £60 p. night)

I can also advise on accommodation for you

£170 p. day

27c

3 days

& more

Outer Hebrides (Guide subsistence costs a further £60 p. day and also ferry costs). I can also advise on accommodation for you

£170 p. day

27d

3 days

& more

Various locations around Inverness. No extra subsistence if all nights are within 30 miles of Nairn. I can advise on accommodation for you.

£170 p. day

Walking Tours around Culloden, and Clava Cairns

Price depends on numbers & content – but usually around £40 - £60

Itinerary Planning for self drives

Are you planning a self-drive holiday in the Highlands of Scotland?

You don’t want to hear that phrase - “If only we’d known, when we were in that area!”

I can help to ensure you never hear it. With just a little background on your interests, your ancestry, and/or what you hope for during your holiday, I can forward by email a planned itinerary with a detailed visit programme.

Standard hourly rate of £20. Free service for those taking a guided tour.