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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. |
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Living & Dining areas, showing TV
and furnished balcony of the
ground floor Golf View Apartment.
An identical apartment with balcony
occupies the floor above this one. |
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. |
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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.
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
walking, hiking, climbing,
fishing,
golf, horseback riding,
cycling,
and kayaking close by. There’s history, too, with numerous
medieval
castles
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minutes
drive from the cottage
— and prehistoric sites
easily reached by day trip. Numerous walks begin very near by
— some as close as 300
yards from the house. A two-minute walk leads to Callander’s main street. The
mountains of the Trossachs —
including Ben Ledi the gateway mountain to the
Highlands — are just minutes away by car. Callander also has its own leisure center
with swimming pool, tennis, gymnasium, squash, and climbing wall. |
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18th Green &
clubhouse at Callander
Golf Club. Golf View Apartments are
75 yards behind the photographer. |
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 Crowns red-coated army of Scottish
occupation. And, while its 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
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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 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
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Coffee House in
Callander,
Central Scotland. |
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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. (See two sample day
trips:
Sail Loch Etive and See
Highland Seals, and
Hiking over the Devil's
Staircase from Glen Coe. Our 100+
page accompanying "Scotland Activities Guide" provides dozens of suggestions of
all kinds.) |
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AVAILABILITY: For current availability information,
call HOME AT FIRST at
(800) 523-5842,
or contact us by e-mail at:
info@homeatfirst.com |
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