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scotland

Beyond haggis and kilts, you’ll surely have ‘ a wee good time’ in Scotland. Providing you can understand the locals’ thick accents, they’ll befriend you at almost every corner. In the thriving commercial, cultural and creative hubs of Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Glasgow you won’t be able to miss the year-round festivities. This includes, of course, the Edinburgh Festival that manages to exceed its sizeable reputation.

Head to the extreme north outposts such as Shetland Islands – an archipelago on windswept islands – if you want experience being cut off from the world while surrounded by oh-so green lochs, glens and steep hills. By day you can seek out a fiery landscape of Celtic castles and by evening you can cozy up in a Scottish pub with single malt in hand and put aside any bitching about the weather. Scotland is probably what ‘the creator’ had in mind when conceiving the concept of self-drive and biking holidays – it is a perfect country to get your own wheels and see where the hurling winds take you.