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,
watersports, 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 are more than 30 courses in Perthshire and 50 within an hour or two drive of Pitlochry.

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 2008 season runs from 16 May to 18 October.

The plays for 2008 are:

Wild Honey by Michael Frayn
She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith
Habeas Corpus by Alan Bennett
Arcadia by Tom Stoppard
Hartbreak House by Bernard Shaw
Outlying Islands by David Greig

Further information on the 2008 season can be found at the Theatre website.

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