Tag:Scotland

Day 4 (Wednesday) Today we travel from Troon to play PGA Centenary Gleneagles and then to St Andrews to our hotel. Our tee time is 16:30 so we should have some time for sightseeing along the way. The most logical stop would be Stirling Castle which is on the way and a very popular historical site. Second only behind Edinburgh castle. Stirling is famous for the Battle of Bannockburn which saw Robert the Bruce defeat the English invaders in 1314, […]

Our golf adventure begins in the area of Ayrshire, the home of Robert Burns. You know, the guy who wrote the poem Auld Lang Syne. Need to set the clocks ahead by 7 hrs. Day 1 (Sunday) Leave Edmonton Saturday @ 18:25 on Icelandair with a 1 hr stopover in Reykjavik, arriving 10:40 the next day in Glasgow. Chris arrives 40 mins earlier from London which gives him time to meet our Bonnie Wee Golf representative and get all the […]

Glencoe After 7 days of golf, I will be staying an extra 8 days to tour other parts of Scotland. Then I will be doing 7 days in Iceland but that is for another post. When planning the Scotland trip, there were 2 areas that were must see, at least from a photography perspective. These two areas are Isle of Skye and Glencoe/Rannoch Moor/Glen Etive. I will be spending 5 days in those areas. Isle of Skye, in particular, is […]