- Glasgow
- Antonine wall at Seabegs wood, 1m west of Bonnybridge
- Bannockburn - dogs allowed in
surrounding area. book for battle enactments
- biggar walk - 4 mile loop from village, easy. Gasworks. Heritage centres.
- Kilsyth loop 8 miles. Auchinstarry marina, Antonine wall, Croy hill,barrhill wood, castle hill, Roman fort
- Tinto hill - 3 hours. Seasonal tearoom at car park.
- Hunter house cafe
- Sloans
- Wholefoods market giffnock
124 fenwick rd g46 6xn butcher, fish, bread, takeaway
- Forth & clyde canal
- Time capsule, 1 adult 2 kids 4-7yr (age/height restrictions? 01236 449572).
Soft play too
- Tobacco merchant house, 42 miller st
- Greek thomson steps off QM drive
Kelvinside terrace east
- St vincent st church
Mon-fri sarah crichton 221 1937
- An Clachan cafe / restaurant
east end of Kelvingrove Park
- Ollaberry, 146 busby rd
Home accessories, art/crafts
- Waverley
- Glasgow tower
- Tunnocks tour & tearooms
Mrs Bell 01698 813551
- Rotherwood furniture, ingram st
- Brazen jewellery 58 Albion st
- Brigitte 41 king st
- Big slope 36 kelvingrove st
- Moskito 200 bath st cocktails
- Dallas & Dallas 18 montrose st
- Cafe lava for cake
- Antiques paisley
- Picnic/bbq
- Mc vibe bar@arthouse
- Portland Arms, (art deco)
1169 Shettleston road
- Inchinnan
- comedy
- Arnold Brown
- David kay
- Susan Morrison
- Miles jupp
- Rev obadiah Steppenwolf
- Sandy Nelson
- Mark bratchpiece
- Folk pubs
- Uisge Beatha
- Lismore
- BenNevis
- Mono
- Glasgow environs
- Largs Viking festival end August
- West kilbride
- barony centre, main st
Mon-Sun, gallery shop
- Inchmahome apr -sept
- Valley international park, clyde valley
Crossford
narrow gauge
01555 860150
- Airdrie observatory
- Hamilton mausoleum
- Tortolano ice cream, uddingston
- Leadhills railway
ML12
easter then w/e's till end sept
- Finlaystone
- Little sparta
Wed/fri/sun 2.30-5
7 jun - 30 sept
"not young children"
O7826 495677
- Garrison House on Millport
- Mar Hall, tea 3-5pm book
Marhall.com
812-9999
- Palacerigg park, cumbernd
Treetop walkway
g67 3hu
- Piersland Hotel, Troon - 5 star
- Trossachs
- ABerfoyle Queen Elizbeth forest park - ospreys
- Loch Katrine
- Loch Lomond boat
- south scotland
- East lothian
- Prestongrangeindustrial heritage
- Presmennan wood
- Scottish seabird centre 5*
- Preston mill
- Inveresk lodge garden
- Archerfield walled garden
- Gilsland park lodges, thebyrecottage.co.uk
Dawyck botanical, Peebles 1hr 12 min, Feb-Nov
threave estate sculpture gdrden, castle douglas open all year, no dogs in garden
but allowed in rest of estate DG7 1RX 1hr 46min
japanese garden Broughton house kirkcudbright
Kelburn fantasy forest, ayrshire
Kelburnestate.com, Fairlie
Linn botanics, cove (view)
Crush home, dollar
inn on loch lomond
Beach house suite
Helensburgh toy shop
W Clyde st
Dawyck botanics
Closed dec/jan
Eildon hills @Melrose 3-4hrs
Carmichael mill,hyndford bridge, lanark A73 lanark-biggar.
working mill and gardens, all year but by appointment!
Kilmichael.com country house Arran 5 star cottages (sleep 4, 1 even has piano) -
no kids under 12 in house!
Muirhallholidaycottages.co.uk restored farmhouse Carnwath, Lanarkshire
Mansefield studios, Arrochar
(ceramics/crafts), A814 towards Helensburgh
Cumbrae sailing/windsurf
Loch fyne market last Saturday
Rothesay paviuion (art delo)
Crinan hotel - some nicer rooms than others. Art, roof top bar
Kilberry inn, croft restaurant, rooms with shower. Dog friendly
Loch Melfort hotel, dog friendly,
Ratho - climb and soft play combo from age 4! Arena climbing from age 8
Malleny Gdns, Balerno - Bonsai
Cove Park, Helensburgh
Nov - May accom
Monachylemhor.com pets s/c or hotel 130+ slipper baths
01877384622
St Peter's College in Cardross, near Helensburgh
Harestanes crafts, Ancrum nr Jdburgh
Rough castle nr High Bonnybridge (roman, Antonine Wall) -Union Inn on canal, Falkirk
netherabbey.co.uk N Berwick boutique hotel
West kilbride crafts
mabie forest marthrown roundhouse
Sleeps 16 or 8 in tipi
cairnpapple hill, nr torphichen , henge,W lothian
crawickmultiverse.co.uk jencks. Pedestrian access only Nov-Feb. DG4 6ET 1hr
Portavadie resort, Loch Fyne - infinity pool, posh pub grub. Explore Polphail abandoned housing
estate
perthshire
- Tribe, moulin, pitlochry
Crafts, home. Wed-Sat
- Ben vrackie @pitlochry 3-5hrs
- Birnam hill @dunkeld 3-4hrs
- Adventurers escape, Aberfeldy
Bunkhouse
- Crannog centre, Kenmore 1 april- 31 oct, from age 4, can hire canoes too
- Easthaugh.co.uk pitlochry, db+b ??65 pp
01796473121
- Ardoch camp Braco Perthshire
- Airdeny chalets taynuilt
- Falkland palace & garden fife
- Grandtully nr aberfeldy
Cafe, chocolatier, conservation village a827
Fife
- Scotland the Bread (I own shares, I think!) premises at the Bowhouse, St Monan's.
Hold occasional food market weekends - see
here
- Chain walk, Elie
Fifecoastalpath.co.uk . After high tide
- Benarty hill f loch leven
Sleeping giant (skyline as profile)
- Feather your nest, station rd st monans
Home
- theBayhotel.net on Forth at Burntisland, leisure facilities
- Dundee
- Discovery pt,
- Jute cafe bar @DCA
- Dundee rep theatre
- Social, S Tay St
- No 25 bar/hotel, S Tay st
- Speedwell bar (edwardian)
- Apex City Quay
- Pitcairlie house, s/c cottages, pool, auchtermuchty Fife KY14 6EU
edinburgh
- three ANtony gormley statues – in the Water of Leith at Stockbridge,
buried in the ground up to its chest outside the gallery and at the end of a ruined
pier in Leith – are still in place
- stones of scotland (Wyllie) - calton hill
- Japanese garden lauriston castle
Free, no dogs
- Holyrood
Tours 45min, last 1515 @weekend, Mon, Fri
Viewing wed-thurs except when in recess by ticket in advance
Pdrk @ st johns hill, Waverley (new st)
- Palm house @edinb botanics
- Thejamhouse.com Queen st ebinb
Live music, food
Arran
- Bigwoodenhouse.com Arran sleeps 10
- Argyll hotel, Iona
- taste of arran, brodick
- kilmichael country house, brodick
- Ormidale hotel arran for pub grub, folk music
- MtB above brodick, lamlash
- Cairns of machrie, arran
Skye
- Fairy pools, glen brittle, skye
2 connected by arch - swim under!
- Toravaig House, Skye
boutique hotel, own yacht ??120 double skyehotel.co.uk
- Skyeboathouse.co.uk
Sleeps 6, 5 star.
- Vanilla skye choculatcs, bayfield rd Portree
Mull
- Carsaig Waterfall, Mull
- shielings campsite, craignure, mull
Other islands
- islay malt and music festival June
- Bonaventure restaurant, Lewis for view
- Vatersay black house Barra
- Peedie house, Stromness Orkney s-c
North
- Craggan outdoors - 1/2 day canoe on Spey,
gorge walking, bushcraft
- Paddle boarding (singles or doubles) - Loch Insh
- Macallan visitor centre (architecture Rogers Stirk Harbour), Speyside
- falls of shin visitor centre - watching salmon (architecture), Lairg, Sutherland
- Lime tree, fort william
Boutique
- Mam na gualainn, from kinlochleven
Corbett
- Kervaig beach, Cape wrath
- Moirlanich Longhouse
- Airdenychalets.co.uk
- Dornoch castle hotel
- Clancottages.com
Thatched, nr oban, mezzanine
- mackays rooms&rest durness
4* visitmackays.com
- Acnahaird camping, achiltibuie
- lazyduck.co.uk 4-pitch camp site
hammocks + sauna, nethybridge, invernesshire
- applecross.uk.com/campsite
- rothiemurchus .net family campsite
- faichemard adult only camp
invergarry, invernesshire
- ecolodge@nethybridge
sleeps 6-8 www.inchdryne.com
- PeacockVisualArts Castle st Aberdeen
- Scarista house, Harris
- Kennels cottage dollarbeg
01259742476 b&b stylish
- Carron tearoom, Stonehaven (art deco) - can't find it, closed down?
- Phoenix organic, findhorn bay
- Seaton cliffs coast walk, Arbroath
- Gloagburn Farm & cafe
Tibbermore, nr Perth
- Sanna bay beach, Ardnamurchan
- Leith Hall nr Huntly gardens
- Love Croft, 01445-731048, 13 Sand Passage, Laide
Near Inverewe
- Creag Mhor Lodge b&b, Onich- bit ugly
- Scottish dolphin centre, Fochabers (nice beach walk too)
Cycling
- aonach mor, glenfinglass
mtbbritain.co.uk
- Mbwales.com
- Mabie np Dumfries, Kirroughtree nr Newton Stewart
7stanes.gov.uk
- Drumlanrig nr dumfries
- moray monster trails
-various levels
- Laggan wolftrax - Green
routes 3.5km and up, between Kingussie and Spean bridge.
- Witches MTB trail at Nevis range
- Learnie Red rocks, Black Isle
England
- Wigwams
- Heron Hut, Rushy meadows, Cotswolds
- Masons, APpletreewick, N Yorkshire
- Beech estate, Battle, E Sussex
- Tor view, Bath
- Wood shack, Abergavenny
- Little owl tipi, Knepp safaris, W sussex
- London
- Henry Moore foundation, Perry green, Hertfordshire Henry-Moore.org
- Bma house garden cafe 8.30-4 M-F
- Gandhi statue tavistock sq
- vancouver studios
- Donovan Cocktail bar @Browns
Jazz. roccofortehotels.com
- High tea @theWolseley.com ??18.50
- Magma bookshop covent gdn
- proud gallery camden lock photos
- wapping project gallery/restaurant
- Montagu-place.co.uk ??109
- Hoxtonhotels.com
- Patisserie Valerie Soho old compton st
- Orangery (cafe) @kensington palace
- Base2stay.com
- hadrian's wall
- Northumberland - ALnwick castle, Saley hall, Matfen hall (onesies for kids!), Doxford hall
- Wakefield Hepworth museum
- Crich sculpture trail, Matlock
- Black moss pot, borrowdale
Hidden pool. Stonethwaite, path to Grasmere. Right at Smithymire Island (where Langstrath beck joins Greenup gill). 1k up Langstrath
- College valley, nothumberland
Wild
- Falling foss, esk valley, N Yorks
- Sgwd Y eira, brecon beacons
Waterfall
- Roystoncave.co.uk, hertfordshire
- Te lawrence aculpture, St martins, Wareham nr Poole
- Sculpture.org.uk, goodwood, sussex
- Higher westcott farm dartmoor
Longhouse redletterdays.co.uk
- 7 keel house apartments, Newcastle quayside
- Budockvean.co.uk cornwall
eco spa
- Peacock @rowsley
- Lake-district-yurts.co.uk
- Gilpin lodge, lake district
- manchester
- B of the bang
- Urbis museum
- Obsidian, socio rehab (bars)
- Cornerhouse art house cinema
- Palace hotel
- Chinese-arts-centre.org
- Andy Goldsworthy@Yorhsh sculpt park
- Esca (bar) 69 preston st brighton
- poetry path River Eden, Kirkby Stephen Cumbria
poems by Meg Peacocke inscribed on stones.
- Bog house matfen northumberland
B&b
- Holkham beach, Norfolk
Romantic, victoria hotel (exotic)
- Bettys cafe York (art deco)
- Grange hotel york
- Loft lounge 143 bromsgrove st birmingham
- Fontana nr Belfast
- Wyndhams deli/bistro@Poundbury, dorchester