THE HEART OF SCOTLAND

Scotland is more than Edinburgh, or Skye for that matter. Its famously beautiful landscapes are not confined to the west coast, or even the Highlands. They are all around you wherever you go.

Perthshire, that round land mass in the centre of a map of Scotland, is often described as Big County, thanks not only to its geographical size but also due to the diversity of its landscapes, from the straths of the east to the munros of the southern Highlands.

With over 200,000 acres of woodland – home to more champion trees than anywhere in the UK – peppered with pretty rural communities, it’s certainly a place that has had its admirers. Sir Walter Scott called it “the fairest portion of the northern kingdom”, while Queen Victoria is known to have stopped at the head of Loch Tummel on her visit in 1866, when she no doubt gazed down the loch towards the ‘fairy hill’ of Schiehallion, so called as fairies