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Drive Around Scotland: Top 25 Tours
Thomas Cook Drive Around Guides are designed to provide you with a comprehensive but flexible reference source to guide you as you tour a country or region by car. This guide divides Scotland into touring areas – one per chapter. Major cultural centers or cities form chapters in their own right. Each chapter provides at least a day’s worth of activities – often more.
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288 pages, Paperback
First published April 1, 2009
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About the author
Donna Dailey
73 books2 followersDonna Dailey writes for national and international newspapers and magazines, and for websites. Her work has won two prestigious travel writing awards. She has also written or contributed to 25 guidebooks for major travel publishers.
Her travels have taken her down the Rio San Juan into Nicaragua’s rain forest, across the Australian Outback, to ancient sites in Jordan and Tunisia, and to the game reserves of Kenya. She has hiked across the Rockies and the desert canyons of the American Southwest, and joined in music sessions in the pubs of Ireland and Scotland. Her appetite for food and drink stories has had her eating buffalo in Denver and billy goat in the Loire Valley, sipping sherry in Spain’s bodegas, and taken her from the gourmet restaurants of Paris to Valencia in search of the perfect paella.
Donna has a Journalism degree from the University of Northern Colorado. She speaks basic Spanish. Before moving to London she worked for US publications and in television. She has been a freelance travel writer and photographer since 1993, and has worked as a Managing Editor for Insight Guides. She is a member of the British Guild of Travel Writers and the Outdoor Writers’ Guild.
Her travels have taken her down the Rio San Juan into Nicaragua’s rain forest, across the Australian Outback, to ancient sites in Jordan and Tunisia, and to the game reserves of Kenya. She has hiked across the Rockies and the desert canyons of the American Southwest, and joined in music sessions in the pubs of Ireland and Scotland. Her appetite for food and drink stories has had her eating buffalo in Denver and billy goat in the Loire Valley, sipping sherry in Spain’s bodegas, and taken her from the gourmet restaurants of Paris to Valencia in search of the perfect paella.
Donna has a Journalism degree from the University of Northern Colorado. She speaks basic Spanish. Before moving to London she worked for US publications and in television. She has been a freelance travel writer and photographer since 1993, and has worked as a Managing Editor for Insight Guides. She is a member of the British Guild of Travel Writers and the Outdoor Writers’ Guild.
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September 4, 2015
This book has some useful information but it isn't formatted particularly well. For each suggested 'drive' the section starts with a map of an area bigger than the actual drive, includes randomly picked places, with smaller text notes of pages of interest stuck in the margin. It ends with a short, vague, set of directions and a map of the actual drive.
The information isn't all accurate, which combined with the awkward formatting is the reason for such a low rating. I picked this up while considering my next holiday, but have been to a number of places covered, which is how I spotted the errors. One example, is the first map of Skye marks Kilmuir in the wrong place, though the second one amends it. Also Brodie Castle is not in Forres as suggested in the book, it is outside closer to Nairn and off the main road.
Also it doesn't mention that sundays are more limited in many places, and some still have old style market days (part open, or fully closed) - also, every village in scotland does not have public toilets or a tourist information.
Best used in combination with lots of other books.
The information isn't all accurate, which combined with the awkward formatting is the reason for such a low rating. I picked this up while considering my next holiday, but have been to a number of places covered, which is how I spotted the errors. One example, is the first map of Skye marks Kilmuir in the wrong place, though the second one amends it. Also Brodie Castle is not in Forres as suggested in the book, it is outside closer to Nairn and off the main road.
Also it doesn't mention that sundays are more limited in many places, and some still have old style market days (part open, or fully closed) - also, every village in scotland does not have public toilets or a tourist information.
Best used in combination with lots of other books.
Displaying 1 of 1 review