Tips & Tricks

Royal Troon Championship Golf Course (Craigend Road, Troon, Ayrshire) – located 1 ½ hours (78 miles) southwest of Edinburgh, Royal Troon lies at the southern end of that beautiful stretch of Ayrshire coastline where golf was played long before the Troon Golf Club was founded in 1878. The Club became Royal in its centenary year […]

Edinburgh Mela (Leith Links, Edinburgh) – held annually in late August, the Edinburgh Mela (held at Leith Links, a public park within the docks district of Edinburgh) seeks to embrace all its diverse communities and cultures, providing a showcase and development opportunities for artists from within those groups, working alongside artists of national and international […]

Scottish Off Road Driving Centre (Glentarkie Estate, Strathmiglo, Fife) – located an hour north of Edinburgh (via routes A90 and M90), this is the biggest, best and most challenging 4 x 4 offroad driving course in Scotland. Its off-road driving range in Fife has a wide variety of natural and man-made obstacles designed to offer […]

Scotch Whisky Experience (354 Castlehill, Edinburgh) — take a barrel ride as you actually become part of the whisky making process. Journey through gently swaying fields of barley and on to the warmth of the Malt Kiln with its lingering smell of burning peat. Explore Scotland’s diverse whisky regions and the flavors that the countryside […]

Malt Whisky Trail — Follow the world-famous Malt Whisky Trail through Speyside to seven working distilleries, including a fascinating cooperage and a historic distillery. From Benromach to Dallas Dhu, a perfect time capsule of whisky-making; from Glen Moray to Strathisla, home and heart of Chivas Regal; from the Glen Grant distillery to the Speyside Cooperage […]

Muirfield Golf Course (Duncan Road, Muirfield, Gullane, East Lothian) – this golf course is located 40 minutes east of Edinburgh (via routes A1 and A198). Many of the world’s greatest players believe that Muirfield near Edinburgh is the fairest examination of championship golf among all the great and historic course of the British Isles. If […]