Moon Edinburgh, Glasgow & the Isle of Skye (Travel Guide)

This book gives you all the great info you need for planning your trip. Even includes details about transportation between points of interest so you can plan how you will get around. Lots of good recommendations for where to stay and eat. One word of caution-it was written at the start of the pandemic and many places now appear closed as they are not responding to email inquiries.

Planning a first (or even third) visit to Scotland can be a daunting task. With enough history, whisky, and natural wonders to fill up a lifetime, it’s tough to know where to start. By focusing primarily on Scotland’s two most well-known (and arguably most -worth-visiting) cities, as well as the otherworldly Isle of Skye, this compact tome makes for an excellent entry point to planning. There’s enough here -- from distillery details to abandoned villages, and hidden lochs –to easily plan a trip for three days or three weeks. And the many color photos are enticing and informative enough to make you want to extend your stay before you even get there.For those worried that a book called Edinburgh, Glasgow & Skye might skip the many other worthwhile areas worth visiting across Alba’s expanse, fear not. This 400-plus-page (but still nearly pocketable) tome also features sections that cover the southern, northern, and western Highlands. This unfortunately leaves out the Outer Hebrides, Shetland and Orkney (the Western and Northern Isles, respectively) as well as much of the Lowlands. But there’s easily enough in each of those places to fill a book of their own.I’m particularly fond of the archipelagos not covered here (though Lewis and Harris in the Outer Hebrides do get a brief one-page overview). But after eight visits to Scotland so far, with so much still left to see, Sky, Edinburgh, and Glasgow are three places I’d suggest most people visit on their first or second visit. This book covers those areas (as well as other parts of the Highlands) excellently – with enough on-the-ground research and attention to details that I learned about (or was reminded of) several things I still need to visit—Cowdor Castle and the tree it was built around are definitely on my list for my next trip, thanks to this dense-but-accessible wee book.

A great book for both planning a visit or just learning more about these areas of Scotland - highly recommended.