Norway and Scotland Tours and Trips

Our guide Peter Wilson set out to ensure everyone felt welcome and noticed. He enjoys the journey as much as us visitors. We all had the opportunity to introduce ourselves and along the way, Peter worked at keeping us informed entertained and educated without making anyone feel ignored or unimportant. We saw many out of the way spots around the countryside and even had a game of skittles. We enjoyed his company as well as the travellers in our group. Definitely worth doing!

We chose the "Enchanting Eastern England" tour for 3 reasons: 1. Previous excellent experience with Blue/Blue-Roads tours; 2. We love traveling with Aussies, New Zeelanders, Canadians; 3. This particular tour went to areas where we had not been; 4. The timeframe worked well with our lives. We were not disappointed! We had 13 travelers in a 16 passanger van with an superior guide (Jessica) and an amazing driver (Lee). We did indeed see the "back roads," which gives a unique perspective on the country. We were thrilled with the full itinerary and the housing and food choices were a real bonus. The only challenge was that we were in the British Isles for three week and we throught the one "roll aboard" + backpack per person would be too limiting. It wasn't. It was very freeing and caused us to get creative. We worked with a black pallet and colors that looked good in layers. Being late in the season, we had one wool layer and warm washable under garments. "Tide stick" keep clothes clean and hand-washing was an option with two nights in each hotel. Thank you, Blue-Roads.

My favorite experience was going to Orkney, seeing the Neolithic sites and feeling the wildness of the place… astonishing. Our guide was a wealth of information, helping us to really feel how hard existence was for these early inhabitants, as well as the more recent crofters. As a history buff, I loved all of the Jacobite sites and information.

Outstanding experience!! Our guide Ben was extremely knowledgeable and accommodating. And our driver Philip knew the roads like the back of his hand. We saw many astonishing places and learned a lot about Britain.

Reasonably paced snapshot of Scotland Accomodation and included meals were excellent for this solo traveller The hotel in the Highlands was first class as was the meals provided there The Trafalar tour director Brooke was very informative - made the trip very enjoyable notwithstanding the stormy weather which neccessitated some changes to the schedule.

The Torphichen dinner was absolutely the best! Family style, singing, drinking, piping and cry-in-your-beer stories by Kenny. The next absolute best was Neal and the sheep station. Incredible dogs made the sheep dance ballet! Neal is a stitch! Warm and gruff showed how to hypnotize sheep in 5 seconds for shearing. Great story telling and dog training advice. I loved the experience of personally shearing sheep. Brooke the tour director was so much fun and accomodating, an absolute delightful person.