First Visit to Scotland---what sights must I see?

WEll even if you don't make it here I hope you have a great time! You won't get to Inverness without passing Stirling though! lol xxxx

PMPL Oh Alice these responses made me giggle! lol I haven't seen that honey but I really wish I had - specially the one in Stirling! xxx

Hi mummymo. I haven't heard of Stirling but I shall look it up. We will be traveling from Edinburg to Glasgow and back, I think. Also, we will visit Inverness. We definitely want to see castles and countryside. I appreciate all your input on this.

We will actually be driving through that area and want to catch a look at Nessie. We are excited about visiting Scotland for the first time. The pictures make it look so green, lush, and beautiful.

I think you are right about asking the locals what are the best sights to see in a country. I'm late on doing my pre-vacation research, but I'm sure we'll still see some great sights. Scotland, here we come!

That is so exciting.

We just returned last night and our trip to Scotland was lovely. I did take some pictures of castles. It is hard to imagine but there are castles everywhere there. I have never tried to do a slideshow at AC. Maybe I should check that out. I think they don't allow pictures of already identified sites as there are copyrights on them. I submitted a picture with my article on Japan at AC and they removed the picture and never said why. I think it was because it was a well known public place there. Anyway, I'll have to check the AC slideshow thing out. Take care, Sunny.

Yeah, have to check the guidelines. Seems they'd let you do pics of the castles if you identified them, but not sure. Glad y'all had a good time!

I appreciate your views of your country. We just returned home last night and I must say that we found Scotland to be magical. The hills, trees, sheep, beautiful old architecture, and pure history of the country is astounding! We spent a few days in Inverness with friends. It was very cold, rainy, and windy! We did see snows on the hills as we rode the train from Inverness back to Edinburgh. The sights were lovely and quite picturesque. We did not get to visit the 2 sites you mention--the fruitmarket gallery or the gallery of modern art. We just couldn't fit everything in to our trip. I must say that it was during my visit to Scotland that I actually wanted to read about history, it's just so awesome there.

i'm glad you enjoyed it. for me hills, more hills and endless hills filled with bogs aren't that rewarding. more threatening and slightly stifling. for me ctiy scapes and industrial architecture are so much more uplifting. i'm not sure what route the Inverness train takes to Edinburgh after the bridge but you probably cam close to grangemough. one of my 'best views in Scotland'. While its also a town grangemouth is primarily a vast petrochemical complex and scotlands one oil refinery. during the day its impressive but at night its awe inspiring. Other views i like are, watching the tankers edge in and out of flotta oil terminal in the Orkney islands, though that takes binoculars, watching the wind turbines on gigha (although the ones on the M6 south of Preston are much better. If you've seen 28 days later you see these ones in that). But if you really have to have your landscapes free of mankind then i guess i would give you Sandwood bay as a good view

Yes, we very much enjoyed seeing all the buildings and history there. I think Scotland is a magical place. All the people we met there were just lovely people also.