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3-Day Isle of Skye, Inverness & Highlands - The Hairy Coo
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Your 3-day Isle of Skye, Inverness and the Highlands Tour, lead by your expert Local Hairy Coo Tour Guide!
You will visit all of the must see highlights of Scotland, including the Isle of Skye, Loch Ness, Glencoe, Outlander and Harry Potter film locations, Eilean Donan Castle, Culloden Battlefield, 2 x National Parks, a Scotch Whisky-Distillery, and many more!
We drive the full length of Loch Ness, stopping to take in the views of Urquhart Castle, then we arrive in Inverness, the Capital of the Scottish Highlands, where your guide will drop you at your accommodation where you’ll stay for 2 nights.
If local beer and whisky aren’t your scene, you can enjoy an evening stroll along the banks of the famous River Ness, where you’ll find Inverness Castle, and Inverness Cathedral.
Just let your Tour Guide know if you’d prefer to explore Inverness alone on Day 2*** You depart Inverness to begin your journey south, and on this day you’ll visit the site of one of the most important battles in Scotland’s history, neolithic standing-stones, visit an authentic Scotch Whisky-Distillery, and journey through the stunning Cairngorms’ National Park.
William Brodie - Wikipedia
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William Brodie (28 September 1741 – 1 October 1788), often known by his title of Deacon Brodie, was a Scottish cabinet-maker, deacon of a trades guild, and Edinburgh city councillor, who maintained a secret life as a housebreaker, partly for the thrill, and partly to fund his gambling.
As the foremost locksmith of the city, Brodie was asked to work in the houses of many of the richest members of Edinburgh society.
Robert Louis Stevenson, whose father owned furniture made by Brodie, wrote a play (with W. E. Henley) entitled Deacon Brodie, or The Double Life, which was unsuccessful.
[2] Deacon Brodie is commemorated by a pub of that name on Edinburgh's Royal Mile, on the corner of the Lawnmarket and Bank Street which leads down to The Mound; and a close off the Royal Mile, which contained his family residence and workshops, still bears the name "Brodie's Close".
The "Deacon Brodie" episode of the BBC One television drama anthology Screen One starred Billy Connolly as Brodie, aired on 8 March 1997, and was made in Edinburgh.
3-Day Isle of Skye, Inverness & Highlands Tour - Ness Bus
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Continuing north, into the ‘Loch Lomond Trossachs National Park‘, it’s time to meet a few of the locals, by meeting some of our famous Scottish Highland Cows (Hairy Coos)!!!!
Admire the scenery as your tour guide explains the remarkable tribal ‘Clan’ history of the Highlands, and you hear about the most famous Highlander of them all, ‘Rob Rob MacGregor’.
Follow in the footsteps of James Bond (Skyfall) and Harry Potter (Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban), as you discover the beautiful and haunting ‘Glencoe’, the most magnificent and famous valley in Scotland.
We drive the full length of Loch Ness, stopping to take in the views of Urquhart Castle, then we arrive in Inverness, the Capital of the Scottish Highlands, where your guide will drop you at your accommodation where you’ll stay for 2 nights.
If local beer and whisky aren’t your scene, you can enjoy an evening stroll along the banks of the famous River Ness, where you’ll find Inverness Castle, and Inverness Cathedral.
Edinburgh - In the footsteps of Dr Jekyll, Rebus and Holmes ...
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Come with me through the dark side of Scotland's capital and follow in the tracks of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Deacon Brodie, Burke and Hare, Sherlock Holmes and Inspector Rebus From Dr Henry Jekyll’s potion to the Rebus crime scenes, ’s split personality has held a stranglehold on the literary imagination for over a century.
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde was a key inspiration behind the duality of Edinburgh in Ian Rankin’s Inspector Rebus stories, and the ‘Ox’ is Rebus’s local.
Here in a 1622 built house, is The Writers’ Museum (Lady Stairs House, Lady Stair's Close off the Lawnmarket, , tel no 0131 529 4901, Dedicated to Stevenson, Robert Burns and Sir Walter Scott, in the Stevenson rooms you will find a cabinet from the author's childhood bedroom.
Or if you fancy a cup of tea or a snack, a fibre glass Brodie beckons you in to the Deacon’s House Café (2 Brodies Close, 304 Lawnmarket, Edinburgh) Heading down the Mile from the Lawnmarket to the High Street we pass Fleshmarket Close, the crime scene from the Rebus novel of the same name In Stevenson’s The Body Snatcher, Dr K buys corpses for medical dissection.
More gruesome mementos of Burke are in the Surgeon’s Hall Museum (Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, Nicolson Street, Edinburgh, tel no: 0131 527 1649, Admission £5) Aside from a book bound with Burke’s skin and his death mask there is also an exhibition about one of Edinburgh’s other literary heroes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle who studied medicine here under Dr Joseph Bell, the man who’s deductive diagnosis formed the model for Sherlock Holmes.
The Deacon's House Cafe Reviews - Edinburgh, United Kingdom ...
The Hairy Coo
Choose from one of our three 1-Day tours of the Scottish Highlands from Edinburgh, or join us for an unforgettable 3-Day tour of the Isle of Skye, Inverness the Highlands!
Join our fantastic 3-Day Tour to the Isle of Skye, Inverness and the Scottish Highlands.
Enjoy the spectacular beauty of the Isle of Skye, Glencoe and our National Parks, spend 2 nights in Inverness, the ‘Capital of the Highlands’, visit famous movie locations such as the Glenfinnan Viaduct (Harry Potter), Clava Cairns and Doune Castle (Game of Thrones and Outlander) and tour a Traditional Scotch Whisky-Distillery producing one of Scotland’s ‘Classic Malts’.
For those shorter on time, choose from our three 1-Day Tours of the Scottish Highlands, including Scotland’s ONLY Loch Ness and Whisky Distillery day tour, our ‘Highland Lochs, Stirling Castle and Whisky Tour’, or our world famous, original ‘FREE Scottish Highlands Tour’.
Watch our wee video below if you want to see what a day on tour with us is actually like… Tour Departure / Meeting Point: For your convenience, all of our tours depart from the Bus Stop at the ‘Deacon’s House Cafe’, 304 Lawnmarket, Royal Mile in the centre of Edinburgh’s historic Old Town, post/zip code: EH1 2PS.
3-Day Isle of Skye, Inverness & Highlands Tour - The Hairy Coo
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The guides Martin and Mark were extremely knowledgeable on a great many relevant subjects and expertly lead us through the Isle of Skye with ease and excellence, I highly recommend Hairy Coo for all Scottish tours!”
– Sally D, USA Day 3 You depart Inverness to begin your journey south, and on this day you’ll see waterfalls, visit the site of one of the most important battles in Scotland’s history, some bronze-age standing-stones, experience a working Scotch Whisky-Distillery, and journey through the stunning Cairngorms’ National Park.
You’ll then experience Highland life in the 18th century, and visit authentic Highland blackhouses, at the ‘Highland Folk Museum’ (free entry) in Newtonmore.
Also used as a filming-location for Outlander, this place gives you a unique insight into the lives and struggles of the Highland people.
“I booked the Hairy Coo’s three day tour on a whim and it was the best whim of my life!