Travel Tour Scotland

10/09/2024

With Local Edinburgh – I just got recognised as one of their rising fans! 🎉

17/08/2024

Stirling Municipal Building within amazing interior

14/08/2024

There are a lot of people getting to find things in Edinburgh Free

06/08/2024

The web site for seeing Edinburgh is getting some hits.

04/07/2024

Some old golf history Musselburgh Leith Muirfield

29/04/2024

Egyptian archaeologist Zahi Hawass examines the mummy KV21B in a storage room at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo before performing DNA sampling and a CT scan to determine its family tree.
This mummy was discovered with another, KV21A, in a tomb discovered in 1817 in the Valley of the Kings. Both mummies may be queens from the 18th dynasty. Hawass and other Egyptian archaeologists consider KV21B a candidate for the body of Nefertiti.

06/03/2024

Looking for a Hotel in Edinburgh city centre here are 91 Hotels see the addresses on www.allaboutedinburgh.co.uk/hotels-EEdinburgh Iberianshttps://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1GAF9vxpjSdlP1suHnF0N9FUpM1vmSh8&usp=sharing

Here is a list of the Edinburgh City Centre Hotels with full postal address and contact numbers

05/03/2024

National Portrait Gallery. Can you name all the statues on the outside of the building? See if your right on https://www.allaboutedinburgh.co.uk/queen-street-edinburgh

02/02/2024

02/02/2024

Peter Pan where he actually came from.

29/03/2023

Travel Tour Scotland is where individuals or groups up to 60 can travel Scotland in one vehicle. Vehicles available are
Executive Cars,
4 passenger with large Luggage Space, 6 passenger Taxis,
8 passenger Minibus (plus trailer for Golf clubs or extra luggage)
16 passenger with large luggage space
28 passengers with luggage space
33 passengers with luggage space
60 passengers with luggage space

13/09/2022

On this day in history.....Battle of Stirling Bridge.
Generals of the Army of Scotland - Andrew de Moray and William Wallace
After the capitulation of the Scottish nobility and aristocracy to English forces at Irvine, young hotheads Andrew de Moray and William Wallace were the only effective Scottish commanders left in the field. Here, they are shown deploying their combined troops from their vantage point atop the Abbey Craig onto the flood plain surrounding Stirling Bridge on the morning of 11th September, 1297. Shortly, they would face and defeat a vastly superior English host and earn their place in History.
Following the English occupation of Scotland in 1296, bitter and hard fought rebellions flared up all over the land. To the North, Andrew de Moray led a particularly successful campaign against the authorities. To the south, William Wallace launched a savage attack against English authority. By the late summer of 1297, de Moray and Wallace had joined forces to make a particularly effective guerrilla army. Together, they rampaged through the country and brutally drove the English out of their strongholds.
Edward could only re-impose his authority on Scotland with a full-scale armed invasion. Sometime late in the summer of 1297, King Edward's lieutenant in Scotland, John de Warrenne, the earl of Surrey, mustered an army and marched north into central Scotland. Moray and Wallace responded by marching with their combined forces to Stirling to await his arrival.
Moray and Wallace deployed their small army to the north of the River Forth close to the old bridge under the shadow of Stirling Castle. Surrey's handling of the ensuing battle was extremely inept. Ignoring the advice of advisors who suggested he try a pincer attack utilising nearby fords, he sent the vanguard of his army across the narrow bridge under the Scots’ gaze, expecting them to be too intimidated to attack. Unfortunately for him, the Scots did attack, when the English army was only partially deployed. In the ensuing carnage of the Battle of Stirling Bridge, Surrey's army was massacred. The bulk of his army had remained unengaged on the southern bank and it soon began to flee the scene as it became clear that Surrey had been outmanoeuvred and outfought by de Moray and Wallace.
It is estimated that Surrey lost one hundred knights and five-thousand infantrymen in the slaughter. The Scottish army's casualties remain unrecorded apart from one significant loss: Andrew de Moray had been fatally wounded in the fight. Scotland had been robbed of a supremely skilled soldier, tactician, commander and potential leader of the realm.
The subsequent well deserved legend of Wallace has resulted in the achievements of Andrew de Moray disappearing into the mists of time. Although there are many statues to Wallace scattered across Scotland and the world, there is no similar monument to de Moray.
Thankfully a project entitled the Guardians of Scotland Trust are set to remedy this. A stunning statue is to be erected on the site of the battle and it is hoped that this will cement, at last, Andrew de Moray’s name in the Scottish consciousness.
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13/04/2022

24/03/2022

24/03/2022

Looking for transport for a group 8 10 12 14 16 up to 57 try the luxury coaches and Executive Mini Buses all a great price. great for Golf Weddings Tours Days out.

07/02/2022

Just an update with many attractions in Selkirk Scottish Borders https://www.traveltourscotland.com/selkirk-attractions

17/01/2022

WITH BURNS NIGHT COMING LEARN THE WORDS
Fair fa’ your honest, sonsie face,
Great chieftain o’ the puddin’-race!
Aboon them a’ ye tak yer place,
Painch, tripe, or thairm:
Weel are ye wordy o’ a grace
As lang’s my airm

The groaning trencher there ye fill,
Your hurdies like a distant hill,
Your pin wad help to mend a mill
In time o need,
While thro your pores the dews distil
Like amber bead.

His knife see rustic Labour dicht,
An cut you up wi ready slicht,
Trenching your gushing entrails bricht,
Like onie ditch;
And then, Oh what a glorious sicht,
Warm-reekin, rich!

Then, horn for horn, they stretch an strive:
Deil tak the hindmaist, on they drive,
Till a’ their weel-swall’d kytes belyve
Are bent like drums;
Then auld Guidman, maist like to rive,
‘Bethankit’ hums.

Is there that ower his French ragout,
Or olio that wad staw a sow,
Or fricassee wad mak her spew
Wi perfect scunner,
Looks down wi’ sneering, scornfu view
On sic a dinner?

Poor devil! see him ower his trash,
As feckless as a wither’d rash,
His spindle shank a guid whip-lash,
His nieve a nit:
Thro bloody flood or field to dash,
Oh how unfit!

But mark the Rustic, haggis-fed,
The trembling earth resounds his tread,
Clap in his wallie nieve a blade,
He’ll make it whissle;
An legs an arms, an heads will sned,
Like taps o thrissle.

Ye Pow’rs, wha mak mankind your care,
And dish them out their bill o fare,
Auld Scotland wants nae skinking ware
That jaups in luggies:
But, if Ye wish her gratefu prayer,
Gie her a Haggis!

20/12/2021

Merry Christmas to everyone and keep watching for more things about Scotland

02/12/2021

Lothians East and Edinburgh for much more go to www.allaboutedinburgh.co.uk and www.traveltourscotlaand.com

02/12/2021

This includes the highest village in Scotland

02/12/2021

Moved to an other area

02/12/2021

A few places in pictures I have Visited.

02/12/2021

02/12/2021

Take a day out in St Andrews see all the historic and golf sites shop and eat special map provided with return transport. We also provide group transport for golf outings.

02/12/2021

01/10/2021

All the lothians on www.traveltourscotland.com

12/03/2021

Wondrous Woods will be taking place again at Hopetoun House Estate in 2021 from 21st October to 14th November 2021. join Hopetoun Estate for a stunning creative lighting journey through the winding mystical pathways of the Wondrous Woods.