SCOTLAND
& NORTHERN IRELAND
'Tartan
and Shamrock'
14
days / 13 nights - Saturday to Friday
DEPARTURE DATES & PRICES FOR YEAR 2008
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Tour
Code
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Depart
Glasgow
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Return
Glasgow
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SIRE
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Saturday
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Friday
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SIRE
01
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03 May
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16 May
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SIRE
02
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17 May
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30 May
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SIRE
03
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31 May
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13 Jun
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SIRE
04
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14 Jun
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27 Jun
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SIRE
05
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28 Jun
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11 Jul
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SIRE
06
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12 Jul
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25 Jul
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SIRE
07
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26 Jul
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08 Aug
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SIRE
08
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09 Aug
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22 Aug
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SIRE
09
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23 Aug
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07 Sep
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SIRE
10
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06 Sep
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19 Sep
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SIRE
11
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20 Sep
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03 Oct
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SIRE
12
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04 Oct
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17 Oct
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Price: GBP £1795 pp twin share / GBP £1895 single room
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What
your tour price includes
- Your
accommodation for 13 nights while on the tour is included
in your tour price, and this includes both full breakfasts
and dinners
- Your
price also includes all entrance fees to attractions,
transportation, services of driver/guide-companion
and all taxes and tips other than those you may wish
to give your guide
- Airport
transfers and accommodation pre and post tour are
not included but can be reserved at a specially discounted
price.
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TENTATIVE
ITINERARY - Summary
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Nightstop
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DAY ONE - Saturday
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Highlights
Scotland pretty lowland countryside, Killmarmock,
Troon, scenic ferry to Larne. Northern Ireland, Lough Neagh, Armagh,
Dan Winter's Cottage, Armagh county museum, Dungannon, homestead
of Ulysses Simpson Grant, 18th U.S. President.
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Omagh |
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DAY TWO - Sunday
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Highlights
Sperrin Mountains, walled city of Londonderry/Derry
with walking tour. Donegal Famine Museum, Strabane, Georgian Gray's
printing shop, Sion linen mills, Castleberg megalithic tombs,
Todd's Cairn and the Druid's Altar, Ogham carvings, Ulster American
Folk Park |
Omagh |
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DAY THREE - Monday
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Highlights
Portstewart and Portrush. Giant's Causeway and northern coastline,
Bushmills Irish Whiskey Distillery, the Georgian Carrick-a-rede
rope bridge, Ballycastle, Glens of Antrim, Antrim Mountain scenic
drive. |
Omagh |
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DAY FOUR - Tuesday
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Highlights
Belfast panoramic tour. Ferry to Scotland Stranraer, Southern
Ayreshire Robbie Burns trail, Brigadoon, Dumfries, Galloway Forest
Park, world heritage site of New Lanark. |
New
Lanark Mill |
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DAY FIVE - Wednesday
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Highlights
New Lanark, 18th century cotton mill village, Falls of Clyde,
Peebles and the Tweed Valley, Walter Scott's Abbotsford, the Mungo
Park exhibition at Selkirk, wild Borders scenery, castles and
fortified houses. |
Farmhouse
at Catlowdy |
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DAY SIX - Thursday
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Highlights
2nd century Hadrian's Wall, market town of Hexham, Northumberland
national park, Bamburgh, Dunstanburgh castles and Harry Potter's
Alnwick Castle.
|
as
above |
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DAY SEVEN - Friday
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Highlights
Breathtaking drive up Liddlesdale, Royal Burgh of Jedburgh, 900
year old Jedburgh abbey, woollen mill factory outlet, Mary Queen
of Scot's house, Rosslyn Chapel ( 'Da Vinci Code' site), Borders
towns, Highland cattle.
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Central
Glasgow |
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DAY EIGHT - Saturday
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Highlights
Glasgow, Paisley Abbey, Loch Lomond, picturesque village of
Luss, Inveraray Castle and gaol, classic highland scenic drive,
stone circles and burial cairns of Kilmartin.
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Oban |
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DAY NINE - Sunday
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Highlights
Easdale Island, the Atlantic Bridge, Princess Diana's mother's
Seil Island, Island museum, Argyll Garden, coastal and inland
wildlife, evening of Scottish song and dance.
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Oban |
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DAY TEN - Monday
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Highlights
Dunstaffnage Castle, Flora MacDonald prison, Loch Awe, Cruachan
Power Station with visitor's train inside the mountain, magical
Glen Orchy, Rannoch Moor, Glencoe, the Glen of Weeping, the coast
road back to Oban.
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Oban |
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DAY ELEVEN - Tuesday
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Highlights
Pass of Brander, classic southern Highland country of glen, loch
and brae, the tomb and tumbledown house of Highland robber and
sometime 'patriot', Rob Roy, shopping in Callander, Stirling Castle,
'Braveheart' country.
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Falkirk
area |
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DAY TWELVE - Wednesday
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Highlights
Royal Kingdom of Fife, 17th century fishing village of Culross,
900 year old Dunfermline abbey, Robert The Bruce' spectacular
brass plaque, Carnegie Hall, Pittencrieff Park, Loch Leven, another
(!) Mary, Queen of Scots prison. Abernethy Peel Tower. traditional
fishing village of Anstruther, museum of fishing, the best fish
and chips in the UK!
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Anstruther |
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DAY
THIRTEEN - Thursday
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Highlights
Dundee, Caingorm Mountains, Spittal Of Glenshee, Glen Dye, Lochnagar
Forest and the Devil's Elbow, Queens Scottish residence of Balmoral,
Glamis Castle, the Meigle's collection of Pictish sculpted stones,
the Tay Road Bridge and Robert Scott's Antartic ship 'Discovery'.
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Anstruther |
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DAY
FOURTEEN - Friday
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Highlights
The Royal and Ancient Golf Club at St Andrews, the Royal Palace
at Falkland. picturesque villages of the East Neuk of Fife, Crail
harbour and Crail Pottery, Robinson Crusoe and time permitting,
secret underground Cold War bunker.
Return to Glasgow via Edinburgh.
Accommodation tonight is not included in your tour price.
>> Go to tours departing from Glasgow
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Return Glasgow or Edinburgh |
NOTES:
. Click here for full
itinerary
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