My holiday at The Ardgartan Hotel in Argyll and Bute, with Lochs and Glens was wonderful. I would recommend them to you all, as the best value for money coach holiday. The meals were excellent plus the rooms were very spacious. The woodland grounds are very beautiful even in March. I can only imagine how it must look in summer when the trees are in full leaf or in spring when the bluebells are covering the ground.
On our trip to Benmore gardens we saw a few red squirrels, lovely to see them in the flesh! They have an avenue of majestic redwood trees and beautiful rhododendrens, many already in bloom.
Scotland really earns its reputation as being "Bonnie". Just a shame about the litter and a dumped freezer in some of the beauty spots! I expect the strong winds were responsible for some of it though.
Loch Lomond and The Trossachs national park is spectacular. The dining room at the hotel overlooks the beautiful Loch Long with the snow-capped Ben Lomond in the background. I had great views from my hotel room too, lovely to look out on in the early morning - no traffic to be heard, just birdsong.
We only had one bad weather day when we went on our Loch Lomond cruise over to Inverary, a very pretty place with a beautiful waterfall.
We visited Glasgow on the Monday and the sun shone all day. It is a beautiful, historic city and the shops were great as well. The riverside transport museum was fascinating too, with a large collection of vintage trams, buses cars etc, plus reconstructions of how shops would have looked yesteryear. Well worth a visit.
Naturally I came home armed with shortbread and a haggis from Moffat's, on our return journey.
Paul would be pleased I made it this time ❤
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