Frommer's Scotland's Best-Loved Driving Tours [Paperback]

British Auto Association (Author), David Williams (Author)

Book Description

Series: Best Loved Driving Tours | Publication Date: April 14, 2000

Frommer's Driving Tours are packed with detailed, color-coded maps and stunning full-color photographs. Each guide outlines dozens of driving tour options and then helps you plan your route with exact directions, distances, and driving times. You'll see all the top sights and then have the flexibility to discover the hidden pleasures of each destination ? our suggested routes include scenic detours and stops for spectacular views, easy walks, shopping, dining, and fun breaks for travelers with children. We'll show you how to enjoy some of the world's most spectacular drives!

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Scotland's a country to see by car. With its lochs and hills, small towns and country inns, you lose a lot of autonomy by depending on public transportation. Frommer's guide presents 25 itineraries--all with precise directions, distances and drive times, sights along the way, history, nature, and family-oriented highlights, recommended walks, scenic side trips, and detailed, accurate route-planning maps.

Divvied up into four regions with five to seven tours each, the routes take one to three days to drive. The writing is informative, and the color photography is splendid, assisting with the task of choosing among the many fine trips. If you're after stony castles, hillside ambles, breathtaking mountain scenery, and watching a man hand-weave tartans on a loom, the "Doon the Watter" tour might appeal, while the "Queen of the South" tour features prehistoric chambered tombs, the Kircudbright Wildlife Park, and a rocky memorial to Robert the Bruce. If, on the other hand, jagged sea shores, old whaling centers, whisky distilleries, and stones with Pictish symbols are more to your fancy, "The Fishing Trail" might interest you more. Either way, Frommer's guide provides wonderful assistance in selecting then enjoying the sort of Scottish holiday you had in mind. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From the Back Cover

Everything You Need to See the Best of Scotland by Car! Let Frommer's Take You To:

• Jagged coastlines, freshwater lakes, and saltwater fjords
• St. Andrews, home of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club
• Hip and historic Edinburgh: Princes Street, the Royal Mile, and the magnificent Palace of Holyroodhouse
• The Trossachs, the romantic countryside of Rob Roy
• The towering peaks of the Torridon Highlands and the mysterious Loch Ness
• And much, much more!

Inside You'll Find:

• 25 distinctive, easy-to-use itineraries—all fully illustrated with beautiful full-color photos
• Exact directions, distances, and driving times for each route
• All the sights along the way—with highlights for history buffs, nature lovers, and families traveling with kids
• Scenic side trips, special moments, and recommended walks
• Detailed, accurate full-color route-planning maps

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Product Details

• Paperback: 176 pages
• Publisher: Frommers; 4 edition (April 14, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0028638409
• ISBN-13: 978-0028638409
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,669,421 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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36 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Can't Decide Where to Go? Read on, Macduff!, March 15, 2000

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Arlene M. Calkins "G'ma Reinie" (Salt Lake City, Utah United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Frommer's Scotland's Best-Loved Driving Tours (Paperback)

If you want to wander around Scotland and have an idea of what you want to see but can't figure the best way to get there--this is the book for you. I found it extremely helpful in driving my son and brother all over Scotland. We were able to see most all of the sites we desired and a few that were complete and wonderful surprises. The only reason we couldn't see everything was because of lack of time.

I am the "Queen of Lost While Driving," and even I could find my way with this guide. It tells you what landmarks to look for, snipets of the history of where you are on the road, and the traditions of the people in the area in which you are driving.

It gives you a practical guide of information in the back and a timetable for each driving tour. The wonderful thing about this book is that you may follow their time plan or invent your own. Every time we strayed from the outlined tour for an impromptu journey, it was very easy to get back on course. In addition, it's much easier and less bulky than having a huge open road map in the front seat of one of those dinky cars they drive over there.

Again, if you want to travel in Scotland with relative freedom and confidence, take along "Scotland's Best-Loved Driving Tours."

30 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It will make you want to drive for hours and hours..., August 8, 2001

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Just-a-girl "abc-survivors.net" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Frommer's Scotland's Best-Loved Driving Tours (Paperback)

This was one of my best purchases for our month-long Britain adventure so far. There are 25 different driving itineraries, each complete with maps, estimated times and miles, and sights to see along the way. The color photos helped us narrow down our choices to a reasonable number of drives. They show the terrain and some of the sights on each tour, so you can pick several different ones that offer unique views and places to see.

If you are planning on renting a car and driving in Scotland, I would suggest combining this book with a full Scotland or Britain guidebook like "Let's Go." You will need full listings of places to stay, admission costs to castles and sights, and historical information about the area. Combine these two guides with a good road atlas (like AAA Britain atlas), and you'll have all of the information you need for the perfect trip.

24 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars How much time do you have?, March 30, 2003

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Stephen McHenry (Olney, MD USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Frommer's Scotland's Best-Loved Driving Tours (Paperback)

This book is going to be of little use to someone who is going to Scotland for a week to 10 days for their first visit. It seems that the original audience for this book is the AA, Automobile Assn (in the US, AAA) members looking for vacations or day trips. Although the book gives 25 great routes to take for scenery, it does not spend very much space telling you about what it is you are seeing when you get there, assuming you already know the history of the castle and so forth.
This book could be very helpful if you were going to be in country for a couple of weeks or months, then coupled with more informative, detail oriented guides, this could lead you to some wonderful vistas. Depends on how much time you have, and what you have seen already in Scotland. If you have been there before, a leisurely driving trip could be just the thing.