SCOTLAND | 6 Day Road Trip
STAY
EAT
Haggis
Pie
Shortbread
PRO TIPS
Rent a car beforehand
Get a Europe Travel SIM Card that will work in every place you are going!
Stock up on food and snacks before you get to the Isle of Skye!
It's colder than you think it will be, even in June. Go in June though because the days are the longest so you can drive for ever and never miss a thing because it doesn't get dark!
Plan on doing all the castles...get an Explorer Pass
ROUTE OVERVIEW:
-Edinburgh
-Inverness
-Lochness
-Isle of Skye / Portree
-Edinburgh
It's the dawn of a new year and if you are anything like me you are probably already working on your 2018 travel bucket list! I love dreaming of all the places the year is going to take me, but I also know its not going to be easy...and I need to plan ahead so I can SAVE, SAVE, SAVE! The good news is the more I travel the more I realize how doable it actually is if you just plan for it. So if one of your new years goals is to travel more...let me help ya out a little. SCOTLAND. Go. Do yourself a favor and make it happen. It was a dream. Now I would for sure recommend more than a week...but if you only have week, this is how we saw as much as we could!
DAY 1: Arrive in Edinburgh
As soon as we landed we knew that Scotland was going to be a special place. We waited a million years in the cold rain before we got to drive away in our rental car!
...this was mistake #1 of #ourukventure...don't rent a car until you are done with edinburg, pick it up on your way out of town instead of driving it into town and having to deal with parking and driving in tram lanes...
Anyway! We arrived and settled into our hostel...The Baxter! I would 100% recommend this place. It was clean and beautiful in the middle of town! The breakfast was made to order by their super amazing and friendly staff and it was such a cool vibe! We went straight to bed after meeting our roommates to prepare for the next day of sightseeing!
DAY 2: Explore Edinburgh
We woke up and it was cold and rainy...and the rain never once let up and we only had one day...so we put on our rain jackets and went out to see the town, the first stop was to pick up a cheap umbrella! But we made the most of our day in Edinburg. Stop one we walked up to the Edinburg Castle and admired the Scott Monument on the way, it can be seen from so many spots! (Cool Fact: It is the largest monument to a writer in the world...to Sir Walter Scott).
After the castle we wandered down the Royal Mile to find the coffee shop birthplace of Harry Potter...The Elephant House. We got some french pastries next door and dried off for a while before venturing back out to see St. Mary's Cathedral. We didn't see nearly everything because we were so cold and wet but Edinburgh was stunning and gothic and everything you think it would be! The rain complemented the city's vibe for sure!
