Pitlochry is a good shout, its a very tranquil town,
Skye is brilliant,
a drive up from Glasgow to Skye has great scenery,
Glen Affric is cool,
Maybe try the NC 500?
Maybe the dark forest park in Galloway?
(Hope to try it myself 1 day)
for nature and wildlife,
Channory point for some dolphin watching or try a ferry to the Orkneys to see Orcas,
Or if you want to try some extreme wildlife, try Inverness town centre on a Saturday night!
I’ve done that already, definitely highly recommend to those who haven’t. Would do during winter though, off-peak is when the roads are much nicer to drive, and things are so much cheaper. Beautiful dramatic scenery too.
Also done that, but I found it quite difficult. Most nights when I was there it was cloudy so you couldn’t see a single thing. I did that in February though, not sure if it changes much.
This is the current plan, but I have 2 weeks, so I think that’s a lot of time for just that. I was originally considering attempting all the Hebrides, or maybe pairing Skye with Argyll and Bute, not sure how feasible that is though.
Thanks for the shouts on Pitlochry, I was thinking about doing the Cairngorms as an alternative too. I usually try to base myself in one location as long as I can while absorbing everything in the vicinity, before moving on.
Been through Pitlochry on a Megabus once, but I don’t think that counts.
Went years ago with Mrs, lovely looking place but just full of drunks in the daytime. Or is that just Scotland in general?
Might be getting Pitlochry confused with Pittodrie -
The place Slur Alex learned how to drink 
or the effect you have on people? 
Skyfall castle
It really is. I was in Kirkcaldy in 1996, we got taken out on Sun lunch to the local club. Everyone, or all too many, were drinking halves of ale, with a small 500ml bottle of nips in their inside pockets!! 
Aviemore is an alright place to stay,
loads of hotels, so plenty of places to stay.
maybe avoid the Scandinavian Village though,
stayed there a few times back in my youth,
it had a reputation as a party place, and still does as far as i know
that’s where my family is originally from, on my paternal grandmother’s side.
Ive still got my ex mum-in-law there at West Wyms on the beach, got some great memories of beach fires and smoko
That’s looks a fine heritage - this house in particular? Next place along the coast from my old lass. I really loved Kirkcaldy, I was made into philosophy at the time and got a great copy of Hume’s essays from a REAL bookshop, that must have been1995, when the world promised a way better future than now. Lovely times, I must go back soon, and may when I visit a pal in Inverness.
there’s a clue in that picture, it just celebrated it’s 150th anniversary. have linked our lineage back to that building in 1904.
Is it the Lodge
Went to the friendly in Karlsruhe and bumped into a couple from Dundee on the tram back to the station, and we got chatting about where we were from. Mentioned my other half is from Fife. ‘Oh yeah, where abouts’? Turned out it was a place that was ‘oh, that’s a bad area, eh?’
Please let the breaking of that law be punishable by firing squad? 
Thats were we have our bolthole
