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THE SETTING: The Golf View Apartments are in a quiet corner of Callander, Scotland. Their balconies overlook the 18th green of the Callander Golf Club, a challenging, scenic inland course that welcomes visitors. Callander is the southeastern gateway town to Scotland’s Loch Lomond & Trossachs National Park, and is large enough to offer a wide selection of shops, restaurants, woolen mills, pubs, and other services.
THE HOSTS: The owner/hosts reside elsewhere in the large house. They take an active interest in their guests. The owners’ close proximity provides the comfort of a helping hand whether needed for questions about your accommodation, or some local event or destination you may find of interest.
THE REGION: The rugged, beautiful Trossachs are best
known for their bad-boy favorite son, Rob Roy MacGregor,
legendary Scottish patriot, whose infamous cattle rustling, inter-clan feuding, and
Highland high jinks made him something of a Celtic Jesse James to the Crown’s
red-coated army of Scottish occupation. And, while it’s impossible to know where his
legend ends and historical reality begins, the Rob Roy story only adds dimension and color
to the already mystical landscape of mountains, glens, lochs, heather, and gorse that
adorn the Trossachs and the beautiful Central Highlands. The local visitor information
center, "The Rob-Roy Centre", has a good stock of travel publications, maps and
other useful information to help visitors get the most out of the region. Housed in the
same building is the "Rob Roy Experience", an audio-visual show telling the life
story of the local boy made good (and bad).
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THE
ACCOMMODATIONS: The
two purpose-built Golf View Apartments occupy the ground-floor and the first floor of an
attractive modern home in a pretty residential section of Callander. Each apartment will
accommodate one couple or a family of 3-4 persons with one double bedroom and two single
convertible beds in the living room. Each apartment also includes one bathroom with
shower en suite, a spacious living room/dining room (with TV), and a fully-equipped
kitchen (oven, range, microwave). Each apartment has private, furnished balcony, its own
private entrance, plus off-street parking. The apartments are centrally heated. Laundry
facilities are on site.
ACTIVITIES
POSSIBLE: The apartments are, of course, ideal
for golfers. However, they also make a great base for touring throughout much of Scotland.
Outdoors enthusiasts will find superb 
The region’s central location makes it a
great base from which the Highlands, the Inner Hebrides isles, coastal lands east and
west, and the great Scottish cities of Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, and Inverness can be
reached in a series of day trips by car & rail. Located in the very center of
Scotland, these comfortable apartments are Home At First’s most southerly Central
Scotland location offering easy access to train travel from Dunblane (11 miles) or
Stirling—and impressive Stirling Castle—(14 miles) to Edinburgh (50 miles),
Glasgow (40 miles), Perth (35 miles), and Inverness. Driving through the Trossachs, the
Lowlands, to both coasts, and well into the Highlands is easy from Callander: Oban on the
west coast is about 60 miles from Callander; Pitlochry and Blair Atholl Castle 65 miles;
Glencoe, Fort William, and Ben Nevis about 60 miles; Aberfeldy and its scotch distillery
about 25 miles; St. Andrews with its Old Course, castle, and cathedral is less than 2
hours away. Even the remote, beautiful Isle of Skye is reachable by full day tour of about
3-3½ hours each way with magnificent scenery all the way.