Which way should one go from Dundee ? Along the
coast towards Aberdeen ? North to Braemar ? I should first of all recommend a stay in the Central Highlands, a part of Scotland which combines almost every form of Scottish scenery in a compact area. The centre could be either Perth (the Fair City of the Tay), Dunkeld, Crieff, Pitloehry or, of course, Gleneagles. One must include in this first tour the valleys of three of Scotland's most beautiful rivers : the Earn, the Tay and the Tummel ; Lochs Earn, Tay and Rannoch ; the Trossachs„ the pasture lands of southern Perthshire, and the severe and lonely. Rannoch Moor. Only a conscientious explo- ration of all these will enable a motorist to say that he has had an opportunity of appreciating Scotland's varied scenery. The towns of central Scotland are so rich in history that much of the visitor's time—if not, indeed, all of it—could be spent investigating scenes of past desperate encounters and places where other historic incidents occurred. For instance, there is Stirling, the favourite residence of many Scottish kings ; the field of Bannockburn close by the Pass of Killie- crankie beyond Pitlochry ; the old Cathedral City of Dun- blane ; the Rob Roy country around Aberfoyle ; the burial place of Fingal at Killin, to name only a few.
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