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Edinburgh Military Tattoo at Edinburgh Castle. 3rd - 25th August 2012.
To hear the sound of the Pipes and Drums at Edinburgh Military Tattoo please click on the above heading. and click on Tattoo Experience. Edinburgh is only one hour by car or train from Morrisons Holiday Homes.
Scottish Game Fair to be held at Scone Palace from Friday 29th June - Sunday 1st July 2012
Edinburgh Fringe Festival - August 2012.
The fringe festival is held in the vibrant, historic city of Edinburgh. It's the biggest arts festival in the world, with something for everyone: theatre, comedy, music, dance, exhibitions and much, much more. In fact, it's the number-one tourist attraction in the whole of Britain.
Highland Adventure Safaris Aberfeldy. Award winning Adventure Safaris. Bring the great outdoors closer from our 4X4 landrovers on our Ecotours, wildlife-watching trips or exciting off-road driving experiences . Visit the website and read more about Gold Pannig days .
Johnnie Walker Golf Championship at Gleneagles - to be held 23rd - 26th August 2012. Diageo is proud to be the host and sponsor of the 2012 Johnnie Walker Championship at Gleneagles. Held over The PGA Centenary Course, venue for the 2014 Ryder Cup, this is one of the leading events on The PGA European Tour International Schedule of Events and will welcome some of the best golfers in the world to one of the most beautiful places in the world.
The Ryder Cup is being held at Gleneagles from 26th to the September to 28th 2014.
Galloway Antiques Fairs click on website for venues of Galloway Antiques Fairs.
Glamis Castle - childhood home of the late Queen Mother - apporx 45 minute drive from Morrisons Holiday Homes.
Find out about the role the safari Park plays in the protection and conservation of endangered species.
British Airways Flights. Book British Airways Flights and save on tickets on CheapOair, book today using CheapOair's exclusive travel coupon.
Scottish Antiques Centre : A great place to visit - Visitor Centre in Perthshire (Abernyte) and Stirlingshire (Doune). Antiques, design led furniture, art, luxury food shop, Ruryk Fare and restaurant, Cafe Circa. Open 7 days, 10am - 5pm.
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After the busy festive period, refresh your senses at a surprising variety of locations during the Scottish Snowdrop Festival, 4 February to 18 March 2012.
Taking place at over 50 gardens across Scotland’s mainland, the festival is a great chance to get out in the fresh air and explore your local area, visit gardens and parks - some of which are open especially for the festival - and enjoy around 300 types of this delicate white flower which appears to defeat the cold winter by bursting into life each year.
The National Wallace Monument in Stirling -
15 to 20 minutes drive from Morrisons Holiday Homes. Standing tall and proud outside the city of Stirling, and overlooking the scene of Scotland's victory at The Battle of Stirling Bridge.
Pitlochry Festival Theatre is a wonderful place to spend a summer evening. Click to see what is on.
Britains Best Breaks -Dundee, Angus and Perthshire - see our area of Southern Perthshire - www.britainsbestbreaks.co.uk and click on Video link for Dundee Angus and Perthshire.
St. Johnstone FC Fixtures - July2011 May 2012. - McDiarmid Park Perth. www.perthstjohnstonefc.co.uk
Perth Farmers Market held in King Edward Street Perth - please click for dates of markets.
Pony Trekking on Exmoor Ponies in the Ochil Hills at Glendevon Perthshire and the Pentland Hills Edinburgh. Visit the website for more information. www.exmoorponytrekking.co.uk
More Events listed under Local Events heading.
Scotland's Gardens Scheme in Perth and Kinross and Stirlingshire - Visit Scotland's Gardens Scheme to discover what gardens are well worth a visit.
Stirling Albert Halls:-
Click here for a full programme of events.
Perth Concert Hall Events - click to see programme.
Many more events being held at Scone Palace please click for programme of events
Perth Races at Scone Palace Click here for horse racing events at Scone Palace.
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Visit Glasgow is also a wonderful city to visit and is less than a one hour car or train journey from Morrisons Holiday Homes. clidk to read about what's on. Visit The New Transport Museum and many more Museeums in Glasgow most of which are FREE entry.
Visit Edinburgh and make this a must when visiting Scotland Click to read about whats on - Edinburgh is less than a one hour car or train journey from Morrisons Holiday Homes.
The National Museum of Scotland is now open and entry is FREE - Explore the diversity of the natural world, world cultures and design, science and technology and Scottish history all under one roof.
Visit Historic Stirling - 20 minutes drive from Morrisons Holiday Homes.
Stirling is one of Scotland’s oldest towns and its newest city.With a setting of mountains, rocky crags and the winding river Forth, Stirling is ‘the brooch which clasps together the Highlands and the Lowlands'.
The city is the gateway to Loch Lomond and the Trossachs, Scotland’s first national park.
‘He who holds Stirling holds Scotland’ – advice that fired William Wallace and Robert the Bruce. Stirling was the battlefield of a young nation – experience the heritage today.
Visit St. Andrews - The Home of Golf
Welcome to St Andrews Links, the Home of Golf, where the game has been nurtured and developed for 600 years. Journey time from Morrisons Holiday Homes approx 50minutes.
Further information about Perth Concert Hall events go to www.horsecross.co.uk
Highland Games events in Scotland for 2011. Please read all dates and locations of our Traditional Highland Games Events.
Dundee Heritage Trust.
Visit The Discovery Ship and Verdant Works in Dundee.
Dundee Heritage Trust and its operating compnay Dundee Industrial Heritage Ltd are both registered charities fromed in 1985 to preserve and interpret Dundee's industrial past. Bannockburn Battlefield 1314 - 30 minutes drive from Morrisons Holiday Cottages.
Here in 1314, in one of the defining moments in Scottish history, King Robert the Bruce routed the English forces of King Edward II to win a much-longed-for freedom for the Scots.
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Welcome to The Old Dairy Cottage self-catering holiday cottages situated in the Royal Burgh of Auchterarder in scenic Perthshire Scotland. This unique cottage accommodation dates back to 1709.
History of the Old Dairy Cottage 
Elcho has been in the ownership of the Wemyss family for five and a half centuries, if not longer. It was part of the possessions confirmed to Sir John Wemyss of Wemyss by James III in 1468, and is still owned by the earls of Wemyss. The date when the present castle began to be built is uncertain, though it was probably in the third quarter of the sixteenth century. We know that the lands were confirmed to Sir John Wemyss in 1552, and this may have been a way of ensuring that his title to it was sound before he started a major campaign of rebuilding. He was certainly able to sign a charter at Elcho in 1558, though that does not necessarily mean that the new house was complete, since there must already have been a house on the site before the one we now see. However, there is a record that in 1570 the laird of Wemyss owed the late Thomas Bryson or Boynting the sum of £7 for ironwork, and it is tempting to suspect that this was for the wrought iron grilles or yetts at the windows and main doorway, and that the main work was complete by then. 
