5-day tours around Scotland
Jul 27th 2004, 5:35 am
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5-day tours around Scotland
Hello,
I would like to go on a 5-day (approx.) tour around Scotland
and I am deciding between Rabbie's, Haggis and MacBackpackers
tours. I prefer to see more landscape than towns. Rabbie's 5-day
tour is the only which includes both Skye and Mull islands,
but it might be too rushed. Haggis 6-day tour is longest of
the three, but their itinerary (www.haggisadventures.com) has
more superlative / funny words than real description of places.
Still, I am inclined towards Haggies, because it is longer.
Can someone recommend any of these tours?
Sven Ubik
I would like to go on a 5-day (approx.) tour around Scotland
and I am deciding between Rabbie's, Haggis and MacBackpackers
tours. I prefer to see more landscape than towns. Rabbie's 5-day
tour is the only which includes both Skye and Mull islands,
but it might be too rushed. Haggis 6-day tour is longest of
the three, but their itinerary (www.haggisadventures.com) has
more superlative / funny words than real description of places.
Still, I am inclined towards Haggies, because it is longer.
Can someone recommend any of these tours?
Sven Ubik
Jul 27th 2004, 10:58 am
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Re: 5-day tours around Scotland
> I would like to go on a 5-day (approx.) tour around Scotland
> and I am deciding between Rabbie's, Haggis and MacBackpackers
> tours. I prefer to see more landscape than towns. Rabbie's 5-day
> tour is the only which includes both Skye and Mull islands,
> but it might be too rushed. Haggis 6-day tour is longest of
> the three, but their itinerary (www.haggisadventures.com) has
> more superlative / funny words than real description of places.
> Still, I am inclined towards Haggies, because it is longer.
> Can someone recommend any of these tours?
I've seen the itinerary for all of them and don't remember there
being much to choose between them (I've never done any of them
but know most of the places they go to). Perhaps you could post
the itineraries you're comparing?
Trying to do both Skye and Mull and the rest of Scotland in 5 days
is too much. If you're only going to do one, I'd pick Mull, since
the journey to it is more varied (Oban is prettier than Kyle of
Lochalsh) and you have more options if the weather's shite.
Might be an idea to defer your choice to the last minute and use
a long-range weather forecast (link from the BBC website) to decide
for you.
And don't believe anybody who tells you Loch Ness is a memorable
experience. There are lots of more interesting places. (Another
waste of time you might be sent to is Edinburgh Castle - there's
much more to see at Stirling Castle, so if you're going to do a
castle, pick that one).
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> and I am deciding between Rabbie's, Haggis and MacBackpackers
> tours. I prefer to see more landscape than towns. Rabbie's 5-day
> tour is the only which includes both Skye and Mull islands,
> but it might be too rushed. Haggis 6-day tour is longest of
> the three, but their itinerary (www.haggisadventures.com) has
> more superlative / funny words than real description of places.
> Still, I am inclined towards Haggies, because it is longer.
> Can someone recommend any of these tours?
I've seen the itinerary for all of them and don't remember there
being much to choose between them (I've never done any of them
but know most of the places they go to). Perhaps you could post
the itineraries you're comparing?
Trying to do both Skye and Mull and the rest of Scotland in 5 days
is too much. If you're only going to do one, I'd pick Mull, since
the journey to it is more varied (Oban is prettier than Kyle of
Lochalsh) and you have more options if the weather's shite.
Might be an idea to defer your choice to the last minute and use
a long-range weather forecast (link from the BBC website) to decide
for you.
And don't believe anybody who tells you Loch Ness is a memorable
experience. There are lots of more interesting places. (Another
waste of time you might be sent to is Edinburgh Castle - there's
much more to see at Stirling Castle, so if you're going to do a
castle, pick that one).
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Jack Campin: 11 Third Street, Newtongrange, Midlothian EH22 4PU; 0131 6604760
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Jul 27th 2004, 3:30 pm
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Re: 5-day tours around Scotland
Well, I too like the landscapes more, when I went. So I hired a car.
But if you do want a tour, note that in avoiding the cities and finding
the landscapes, I saw MacBackpackers more than once and the others you
mention not at all.
Dan
In article <[email protected] >, Sven Ubik
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I would like to go on a 5-day (approx.) tour around Scotland
> and I am deciding between Rabbie's, Haggis and MacBackpackers
> tours. I prefer to see more landscape than towns. Rabbie's 5-day
> tour is the only which includes both Skye and Mull islands,
> but it might be too rushed. Haggis 6-day tour is longest of
> the three, but their itinerary (www.haggisadventures.com) has
> more superlative / funny words than real description of places.
> Still, I am inclined towards Haggies, because it is longer.
> Can someone recommend any of these tours?
>
> Sven Ubik
--
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But if you do want a tour, note that in avoiding the cities and finding
the landscapes, I saw MacBackpackers more than once and the others you
mention not at all.
Dan
In article <[email protected] >, Sven Ubik
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I would like to go on a 5-day (approx.) tour around Scotland
> and I am deciding between Rabbie's, Haggis and MacBackpackers
> tours. I prefer to see more landscape than towns. Rabbie's 5-day
> tour is the only which includes both Skye and Mull islands,
> but it might be too rushed. Haggis 6-day tour is longest of
> the three, but their itinerary (www.haggisadventures.com) has
> more superlative / funny words than real description of places.
> Still, I am inclined towards Haggies, because it is longer.
> Can someone recommend any of these tours?
>
> Sven Ubik
--
Dan Stephenson
Photos and movies from US Parks and all over Europe:
http://homepage.mac.com/stepheda
Jul 27th 2004, 9:09 pm
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Re: 5-day tours around Scotland
Thanks a lot for your advice!
The itineraries I am considering are as follows:
Haggies:
www.haggisadventures.com/HTML2/Tour/Itinery.aspx?TourID=600&WebID=2
Rabbie's:
www.rabbies.com/scotland_highlands_islands_tours/scottish_highlands_islands_tours_scotland.asp?cnt= 0
MacBackpackers:
www.macbackpackers.com/macbackpackers/tours/5daysln_itinerary.htm
Sven
The itineraries I am considering are as follows:
Haggies:
www.haggisadventures.com/HTML2/Tour/Itinery.aspx?TourID=600&WebID=2
Rabbie's:
www.rabbies.com/scotland_highlands_islands_tours/scottish_highlands_islands_tours_scotland.asp?cnt= 0
MacBackpackers:
www.macbackpackers.com/macbackpackers/tours/5daysln_itinerary.htm
Sven
Jul 28th 2004, 12:07 pm
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Re: 5-day tours around Scotland
> Haggies:
> www.haggisadventures.com/HTML2/Tour/Itinery.aspx?TourID=600&WebID=2
Focused mainly on the West Highlands/Inner Hebrides but looks like a
coherently thought-out package. Could be dire in bad weather, nice
and atmospheric in good-to-middling. Note you won't get to land on
Staffa if there's much of a swell and you won't even get to sail past
it in rough sea, which is not unusual at any time of year. Iona is
accessible in anything short of a hurricane but not much fun if it's
raining.
> Rabbie's:
> www.rabbies.com/scotland_highlands_islands_tours/scottish_highlands_islands_tours_scotland.asp?cnt= 0
****** that's tacky. Avoid unless you're a braindead aficionado of
bad movies.
> MacBackpackers:
> www.macbackpackers.com/macbackpackers/tours/5daysln_itinerary.htm
Logical, gives you a good range of different Scottish scenes (except
that Pitlochry is not very memorable and Loch Ness even less so).
Plus points for showing you Fife and minus points for expecting you
to make anything of the Quiraing from the road (you have to walk up
into it to see it properly and you can't do that in the time they're
giving you).
Given what you say about your preferences I'd rank them 1, 3, 2.
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> www.haggisadventures.com/HTML2/Tour/Itinery.aspx?TourID=600&WebID=2
Focused mainly on the West Highlands/Inner Hebrides but looks like a
coherently thought-out package. Could be dire in bad weather, nice
and atmospheric in good-to-middling. Note you won't get to land on
Staffa if there's much of a swell and you won't even get to sail past
it in rough sea, which is not unusual at any time of year. Iona is
accessible in anything short of a hurricane but not much fun if it's
raining.
> Rabbie's:
> www.rabbies.com/scotland_highlands_islands_tours/scottish_highlands_islands_tours_scotland.asp?cnt= 0
****** that's tacky. Avoid unless you're a braindead aficionado of
bad movies.
> MacBackpackers:
> www.macbackpackers.com/macbackpackers/tours/5daysln_itinerary.htm
Logical, gives you a good range of different Scottish scenes (except
that Pitlochry is not very memorable and Loch Ness even less so).
Plus points for showing you Fife and minus points for expecting you
to make anything of the Quiraing from the road (you have to walk up
into it to see it properly and you can't do that in the time they're
giving you).
Given what you say about your preferences I'd rank them 1, 3, 2.
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Jack Campin: 11 Third Street, Newtongrange, Midlothian EH22 4PU; 0131 6604760
<http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/purrhome.html> food intolerance data & recipes,
Mac logic fonts, Scots traditional music files and CD-ROMs of Scottish music.
