Edinburgh Day Trip Castles St Andrews Optional Clay Shooting

Three of Outlander's most famous locations sit within forty minutes of each other. Almost nobody does them in one day. We do - four guests to a car, from your door. Blackness Castle was Fort William. Culross was Cranesmuir, and that garden was Claire's. Falkland was 1945 Inverness - the fountain where Claire sees Jamie's ghost, and the palace where Mary Queen of Scots' father died six days after she was born. Then St Andrews: the Swilcan Bridge, the cathedral ruins and the Chariots of Fire beach. Something no other Edinburgh day trip offers: clay pigeon shooting on a private estate with a gamekeeper of thirty years. No licence, no experience, all kit provided. Most have never held a shotgun; nearly all break a clay within the hour. No coach. No meeting point. No forty strangers and a raised umbrella. Our Glencoe trip has 62 reviews and nothing but five stars. Guests call him King Jimmy; more than one has written he felt like family. A dram on the road home.