If you can swing it, and you can do it easily by rail from Edinburgh, head to places like Pitlochry and take a morning walk up to the oldest farmhouse distillery in Scotland. Edradour is worth the walk, or drive if you prefer. There is a good brewery/pub in Moulin just a mile out of Pitlochry. Some great Indian food can be found there too. Aberfeldy has the statue to the Black Watch and Dewars distillery if you wish to see a big production distillery. We enjoyed Collander which is a short drive from Stirling. There was a nice walk to some beautiful falls and the Crags of Collander. The crags are bluffs but worth the hike. Stirling was enjoyable for the castle and one very old pub we found, The Settle Inn est. 1733. The Wallace tower is there also, though we didnt have time to get to it.

Of course diets are out of the window with a traditional Scottish breakfast.



Take in a bakery or meat market in the small towns and find some wonderful lamb, veggie, meat pies. They make great lunch treats.



In Stirling make sure to find The Settle Inn, it was a wonderful Inn and one of the few that had dark porters and stouts on tap.




If you can get to the Crannogs it is a fascinating bit of early Scottish history.

http://www.crannog.co.uk/


Mostly enjoy as we did last year. We were there in June so a bit ahead of everyone on holiday. Edinburgh was still busy even then but we flew into Edinburgh and had two days to do the tourist thing.

Enjoy your trip.