Day trips from Edinburgh in September

There are so many you could take. I did list on a different posting recently, but here they are again. The first four can be reached by train. Stirlinggreat castle that's different from Edinburgh. A little smaller town in a beautiful setting. GlasgowScotland's biggest city. Wonderful new museum of transportation and Industry on the Clyde Waterfront. Very old Cathedral, Interesting tenement museum and more. St. AndrewsThe golf course, a great castle, and graveyard with a cool tower. University town. Dunkeld/Birnamyou can just tour the cathedral and the little town, (Birnam is where Beatrix Potter used to go as a child in the summer.) But the best thing to do is go for a walk in the hills. Beautiful Perthshire. Have a drink at the Taybank after the walk. The bordersif you don't have a car, you'll need to sign up for a tour, but the Abbey's (Melrose, Jedburgh, Kelso and Dryburgh) Traqhair House, Abbotsford, Floors Castle are all great sites to visit. The TrossachsI don't know if there are tours, so you might need a car, but it's a beautiful park. You can take a ride on a steamboat on Loch Katrine. Many people seem to like to take the one day bus trip to the Highlands, but it's too much bus riding for me. ; ) Pam

Glamis Castle(childhood home of Queen Elizabeth's mother) would make a nice day trip. It looks like a castle from a story book and the tours are guided-nice tea room also. You could see Rosslin Chapel easily by bus. Have fun!

Check what's offered by Rabbies Trail Burners at: www.rabbies.com. They offer several small group day tours and are highly recommended on Trip Advisor. I'm booked for both a day tour and a long tour at the end of this month. They've been great to work with via email and by phone.

We just did a day tour with Afternoon Tea Tours (April 2012). My husband has ancestors from Culross so Robert researched the area and drove us there one day. The village is in a time capsuleabsolutely lovely. Robert gave us a tour of the village and we had a great time exploring the church (even saw a wedding procession complete with bag pipes), pub, 'palace', harbor. You might not want to see Culross as much as we did, but Afternoon Tea Tours has 'set' tours and will also take you wherever you want to go. In addition to Culross, we enjoyed Stirling Castle, Edinburgh Castle and Gladstone House (on the Royal Mile). Be prepared for very chilly, windy weather at Edinburgh Castlecoldest spot of our trip!

I'll second that Culross is terrific. I drove there, but you can likely get there by bus, but you might need to take the train to Dumfermline. Ask at the TI near Waverly. Pam

Some great ideas here. I had been to London several times before Edinburgh, but had never been to York. We went down there for the day and it worked out wellthough it is a longer day. I didn't go over to Glasgow, which Rick had on the podcast recently and it sounds like it is a good place to check outand only a short train ride from central Edinburgh.

In late sept 2009my nephew and me spent a week in Edinburgh. We had a lovely B&B at the outskirts in 4 min walking distance to the bus station and free parking space for our small rental car. Weather was fantastic, sunny if a bit windy at times. So we spent several days with day trips: 1st Borders region: Scott's view, Dryburg Abbey, Smailholm Tower, Floors Castle, Kelso Abbey, Melrose Abbey. 2nd Linlithgow Palace, Blackness Castle, Stirling Castle, Falkirk wheel. 3rd St. Andrews, Hill of Tarvit, Falkland Palace, Loch Leven.
4th Auchentoshan distillery, Glengoyne distillery, Loch Lomond (Balmaha area). Each of the trips was fabulous wish we would have been able to do Glasgow proper and a trip to New Lanark and that area.

Karen, We just returned from Edinburgh, and while there we did one day trip; with a rental car. We visited Stirling Castle, Wallace monument, Doune Castle, and then Loch Lomond. Our B&B suggested various tours. Our 19 and 21 year old daughters really wanted to see Doune Castle (site of Monty Python Holy Grail movie scenes) and it was not on most tours. We tried to get on a tour with The Hairy Coo tour, but it was discovered at last minute and was 100% booked during our stay in Edinburgh. http://www.thehairycoo.com/Home/ At Loch Lomond, Balmaha, we caught ferry to island and did nature walks. Good Luck,
Marty