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Mount Stuart House Our group's first real adventure will be to the Isle of Bute for a visit to the  Mount Stuart House After fueling up at the buffet breakfast in our hotel we board the coach and our excellent coach driver Jim takes us from Glasgow to Wemyss Bay where we'll catch a ferry to Rothesay on the Isle of Bute. We'll be crossing the Firth of Clyde to get to Rothesay. It's a cloudy, misty day but the Clyde River wasn't too choppy for our crossing. We make a photo stop at Ettrick Bay. Then we drive up to the Mount Stuart House for our self-guided tour and some lunch. From Wiki: Mount Stuart House is a country house built in the Gothic Revival style and the ancestral home of the Marquesses of Bute. It was designed by Sir Robert Rowand Anderson for the 3rd Marquess in the late 1870s, replacing an earlier house by Alexander McGill, which burnt down in 1877. We opt to grab lunch first then tour the house while the others are eating-good plan! The ceilings and st...

Scotland , we've been there before, twice as a matter of fact, once in 2015 with Go Ahead Tours and Edinburgh in 2017 , again with Go Ahead Tours as part of their Grand Tour of Great Britain. We wanted to return to Scotland but didn't want a lot of overlap from our previous trips. We found a tour with CIE Tours . We booked the tour through Affordable Tours , our agent is Ambra and she's great! We flew from Logan/Boston MA into Edinburgh Saturday night through Sunday Morning.  We booked a room for Saturday through Monday and let the Leonardo Hotel Edinburgh City Centre know we would be arriving Sunday morning for check-in. Booking the extra night is so worth it. Your room is ready when you land and you have access to your room without having to wait around all day, exhausted from your flight, for a late afternoon check-in. Trust me, if you can afford it, book it! We got to our room and slept some then went out for a walk around. We had an early dinner at The Hanging Bat...

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