Scottish Industrial Heritage & Dumfries House

Thursday

We depart in the morning travelling to Scotland and arrive late afternoon at the Riverside Lodge Hotel, Irvine. 4 nights stay - dinner, bed & breakfast. Tea/coffee and biscuits on arrival.

Friday

We head into Glasgow today to visit the superb, newly opened Riverside Glasgow Transport Museum. Afterwards we travel a short distance out of the city to the Burrell Collection located in the heart of Pollock Country Park. The collection is named after its donor, shipping magnet Sir William Burrel.

Saturday

Today we make the short trip to visit the Scottish Maritime Museum in Irvine. The museum hots a collection of historic vessels to view alongside showcasing Scotland's ship building heritage. The rest of the day is then free to explore Irvine at leisure.

Sunday

We drive to Ayr, where we visit the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum. The museum is a celebration of the early life and the enduring legacy of Scotland's national poet and home to 5,000 Burns artefacts including his handwritten manuscripts.In the afternoon we make the short trip to Dumfries House, one of Britain's most beautiful stately homes and best kept secrets, with sumptuous interiors and furnishings all set around 2000 acres of land. Remaining virtually unchanged in 250 years, in 2007 King Charles III headed a consortium of charities to purchase the house to keep this historical jewel intact and accessible to the public.

Monday

Homeward bound.