USAir Flight 768 leaves Philadelphia 6:45 PM

Flight arrives Glasgow 7:00 AM - pick up rental cars - have two nine-seater Mercedes Vitos booked
Get on the road ASAP - catch ferry to Mull at 2:00PM

Isle of Mull

Tour Island - drive from Craignure (Ferry Terminal) to Tobermory - 

Tobermory

Tobermory is the capital of the Isle of Mull. Its brightly colored buildings line the road along the harbor.
Wikipedia - Official Website

 Tobermory Distillery Tour

Walk to 
Tobermory lighthouse

South Coast of Mull 

Gualachaolish Hike
Deserted Villages, Ruined Church

Return ferry to Oban at 1300

Oban

 Tour Oban Distillery (if did not do Tobermory)

Inverary

Inverary Gaol Museum

Scottish Maritime Museum - Irvine

Explore the Linthouse engine shop, Scotland’s ‘Cathedral of Engineering’, a Victorian Glass-roofed building from 1872. Build and test your own model boat, or learn to manoeuvre a Remote-controlled boat in our indoor boating ponds. See our collection of floating vessels, including Spartan, Scotland’s last Scottish-built puffer, the harbour tug Garnock, and Carola, a steam yacht built in 1898. Learn about Scotland’s importance to maritime history, and about the people that built and sailed Scottish ships around the world.

Official Website

Caerlaverock Castle

With its moat, twin towered gatehouse and imposing battlements, Caerlaverock Castle is the epitome of the medieval stronghold. The castle’s turbulent history owes much to its proximity to England which brought it into border conflicts. Visitors can enjoy a siege warfare exhibition, a children’s adventure park and a nature trail.
Wikipedia - Historic Scotland

Roman Army Museum

Roman Army Museum at Vindolanda Roman Fort  on Hadrian's Wall. 

Hadrian's Wall

Hadrian's Wall crosses England just below the Scottish Border. Hike along the wall, late afternoon / evening.

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Google Maps/Google Earth Overlay

Melrose Abbey

Melrose Abbey today comprises the fairly complete ruins of the truly remarkable Abbey Church with, to their north, the foundations of the extensive ranges of buildings which once comprised the rest of the abbey. 

Undiscovered Scotland page Historic Scotland page Wikipedia

National Museum of Flight

East Fortune played an important role as an airfield during two World Wars. Now the National Museum of Flight hangars are packed with aircraft that reveal how flight developed from the Wright brothers to Concorde.

Official Website

Edin's Hall Broch

Dating from 2^nd century, one of a very limited number of Iron Age brochs in the lowlands of Scotland. It sits within an earlier fort which is surrounded by ramparts and ditches. Later, the site was occupied in the Romano-British period. By car: Off the A6112, Duns to Grantshouse road, about 4 miles from Grantshouse. Thereafter a 3 mile walk from the roadside to the site on the North eastern slopes of Cockburn Law. Free – open daylight hours 

Wikipedia

St.Abbs Community Website

Scottish Mining Museum
Newtongrange

based at one of the finest surviving examples of a Victorian colliery in Europe, the Lady Victoria Colliery at Newtongrange, just nine miles from Edinburgh. Visitors to the museum will marvel at the sheer size of the place, be astounded by the engineering brilliance behind all the machinery and retrace the footsteps and struggles of the thousands of miners and their families before them.

Official Website

Stirling

Stirling Castle

Stirling Castle is one of the largest and most important castles, both historically and architecturally, in Scotland. The castle sits atop Castle Hill, a volcanic crag surrounded on three sides by steep cliffs, giving it a strong defensive position. Its strategic location has made it an important fortification from the earliest times. Most of the principal buildings of the castle date from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. A few structures of the fourteenth century remain, while the outer defences fronting the town date from the early eighteenth century.

St. Andrews

wander around St. Andrews

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St. Andrews

Secret Bunker 

Scotland’s best kept secret for over 40 years, Hidden beneath an innocent Scottish Farmhouse, a tunnel leads to Scotland’s Secret Bunker. 24,000 square feet of Secret accommodation. The size of two football pitches, one on top of another, On two levels 100 feet underground. (opens 1000)

Highland Games

Thornton Highland Games - 1100-1730 (attend 1200-1500)

Deep Sea World 

Aquarium built into flooded quarry. Has 112 meter long underwater viewing tunnel. Located at northern end of Forth Rail Bridge. (open until 1800)
Official Website 

Edinburgh

Royal Mile

The heart of Edinburgh Old Town - from the Castle to Holyrood Palace. History, gift shops and street performers... 
Official Website - Wikipedia

Castle

The Royal Mile starts at the Castle on top of the hill, and so will we, with an excellent tour of the facility, still a working military base. 
The view over Edinburgh is spectacular, and the Castle drips history. 

Camera Obscura

Built by an optometrist in Victorian days, it's a great example of high tech, 19th century style. A periscope on top of the building projects a view of the city on a table, under the control of an operator who narrates the visual tour.  Swatting tourists with index cards is a perennial favorite.
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Greyfriars Kirkyard 

Greyfriars Bobby, the Skye terrier who spent 14 years next to his owner's grave in Greyfriars Kirkyard. 
It's the most visited statue in Edinburgh, apparently. We'll visit it (and the grave, too). 

Museum of Scotland

Just off the Royal Mile, the Museum of Scotland's exhibits run from prehistoric times in the lowest level to the twentieth century on the top level.  
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St. Giles Cathedral 

A prominent feature of the Edinburgh skyline, St. Giles' Cathedral or the High Kirk of Edinburgh is a Church of Scotland place of worship decorating the midpoint of the Royal Mile with its distinctive traditional Scottish crown steeple. The church has been one of Edinburgh's religious focal points for approximately 900 years. Today it is sometimes regarded as the mother church of Presbyterianism.

Dynamic Earth?

Interactive museum of the earth, located across from Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh
We visited Dynamic Earth in 2006 - see our web page for details.
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Parliament?

Tours Mondays at 10:20
Wikipedia Pages: about building about Parliament 

Holyrood Palace?

Holyrood Palace is still a Royal residence, when the Queen visits Edinburgh. You can tour many of the rooms, though, including the one where Mary, Queen of Scots' secretary David Rizzio was murdered. 

Edinburgh - 
Mary King's Close

Hidden beneath the Royal Mile lies Edinburgh’s deepest secret: a warren of hidden ‘closes’ where real people lived, worked and died. For centuries they have lain forgotten and abandoned…

Evening Supernatural History tour 7:30PM
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Blair Atholl Jamborette

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