Activities

Opportunities for outdoor activities abound in Highland Perthshire. You may want to try:
Sightseeing by car or, more energetically, by foot, bike, horseback, canoe, raft, or most other means you can think of, hill walking or climbing,
water sports, cycling off and on road, paragliding, wildlife viewing either independently or on an organised safari, angling, stalking
to name but a few. Or you could just find a favourite spot to chill out and do nothing! A range of outdoor equipment can be found in Pitlochry and John and Viv will be happy to advise on and arrange your chosen activities. If cycling is your preferred means of locomotion, expert and friendly access to all your two-wheeled requirements can be found at the Edinburgh Bicycle Co-op (where John's brother Ged is a founding member).

 

Golfers are superbly catered for, there being around 30 courses in Perthshire and 50 within an hour or two drive of Pitlochry. However, why travel? Pitlochry Golf Club offers a combination of hill walking, enjoying breathtaking scenery overlooking the Tummel valley, with the challenge of a serious game on a course recognised as one of the best in the area.

 

 

If more leisurely pursuits are on your agenda, or, for those (rare) days when the weather is not on your side there is a wide range of possibilities. Try visiting:
- Historic castles and great houses including Blair, Glamis, Scone and Balmoral.
- Distilleries. The smallest (and possibly the most charming), Edradour, is here in Pitlochry as well as Bell's Blair Atholl and all around there is no end of opportunities to sample the water of life.
- Galleries, museums, craft shops and antique dealers catering for every taste or interest.
- Dedicated Visitor Centres offering a wealth of insight into the history, culture, flora and fauna of their surroundings.
- The Crannog Centre on Loch Tay, a living reconstruction of an iron-age settlement.

If you'd like further information on activities listed here, or other pursuits you may want to explore, just ask - if we don't know we'll find out.

For many a visit to Pitlochry is incomplete without catching a show or two at the Festival Theatre where the quality of staging, acting and performance is renowned. Each summer the company stages a selection of comedy, drama and music enabling theatre lovers to enjoy a different performance each night of a week-long stay. The 2012 season runs from 18 May to 13 October.

The plays for 2012 are:

The Little Shop of Horrors
The 39 Steps adapted by Patrick Barlow from the novel by John Buchan.
Communicating Doors by Alan Ayckbourn
Dear Brutus by J.M. Barrie
Rope by Patrick Hamilton
A PFT Classic

Full details of the 2012 programme can be found here.

 

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