Bradt Dog-Friendly Weekends: Scotland Guidebook
30 breaks for you and your dog
Edition: 1
Number of pages: 272
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Bradt Dog-Friendly Weekends Scotland Guide
This Bradt Dog-Friendly Weekends Scotland guidebook has 30 excursions and holiday ideas for dog lovers, from Scotland’s Borders and Highlands to its islands.
About this guide to Dog-Friendly Weekends Scotland
New from Bradt is Dog-Friendly Scotland, written by canine-travel expert Lottie Gross (author of Bradt’s best-selling Dog-Friendly Weekends), who proposes 30 excursions and holiday ideas for dog lovers in this beguiling country – from city breaks to outdoorsy days, and characterful campsites to pubs welcoming furry friends. Each suggestion showcases the finest dog-welcoming places to eat, sleep and be entertained.
Scotland is a veritable playground for dogs and their owners, offering exceptional walking in mountains, along lochs and through dramatic glens. Even so, Bradt’s Dog-Friendly Weekends goes way beyond walking: it suggests scores of exciting attractions to keep visitors with dogs entertained, from castles and beaches to rainy-day activities such as museums and steam trains (even including those where dogs get their own tickets!)
From island-hopping escapes in far-flung archipelagos to sweeping beaches perforating craggy coastlines, Scottish scenery is enough of a draw on its own. But the capital, Edinburgh, also has adventures aplenty for those travelling with dogs, thanks to a smattering of unusual destinations that welcome those on four legs as well as two, plus its own extinct volcano to climb for those bent on stretching their legs.
Each weekend idea is furnished with accommodation suggestions, from the dog-friendliest campsites to charming hotels. To write this book, the author travelled thousands of miles and stayed in hundreds of accommodation offerings to personally test each one for its dog-friendliness. Destinations featured read like a roll-call of Scotland’s finest locations: from the Isle of Skye to Orkney, Loch Ness to Loch Lomond, Glasgow to Aberdeen, and Ben Nevis to the Cairngorms.
Despite its manifest riches, Scotland is not always the easiest country to explore – it has remote areas that can be tricky to reach but rewarding once there – and there are considerations aplenty for dog owners around safety, wildlife and impact on the environment, especially in the light of the Scottish Outdoor Access Code. This Bradt Dog-Friendly Weekends Scotland guidebook helps visitors and locals alike navigate the sensitivities, providing inspirational insights alongside advice on how to have a stress-free and safe holiday with your dog in this beguiling country.
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Contents
Introduction
Galloway Forest Park
Tweed Valley
Edinburgh
Loch Lomond & the Trossachs National Park
Dundee
Isle of Mull
Glencoe & the Nevis Range
East Cairngorms
West Cairngorms
Aberdeen
Loch Ness
Isle of Skye
Shetland
Glasgow
The Fife coast
Isle of Arran
Oban
Islay & Jura
NC500 – east coast
NC500 – west coast
NC500 – north coast
Orkney
The Caledonian Canal
Lewis & Harris
North Uist
The Small Isles
The Ayrshire coast
Kintyre Peninsula
Queen Elizabeth Forest Park
Dumfries
Index
About the author
Lottie Gross (lottiegross.com) is a travel writer, editor and dog lover from Oxfordshire. She has been reporting on tourism in the Cotswolds for over a decade, writing articles and reviewing hotels in the region for The Telegraph, loveEXPLORING, AFAR in the US and other titles. She has lived on the fringes of the Cotswolds for most of her life, walking her dogs along its trails innumerable times.
It was in the Cotswolds that she conceived the idea of a dog-friendly guidebook, discovering many intriguing attractions that genuinely welcomed dogs (rather than simply allowing them inside), and realising that there could be more to a dog-friendly holiday than just walks and nice pubs.
Pairing her local knowledge and dog travel know-how – as the author of best-selling books Dog-friendly Weekends (Bradt) and Dog Days Out (Bloomsbury), and a Dogfest speaker – gives Lottie a unique perspective with which to write the new Bradt Dog-Friendly Weekends Scotland Guidebook.