2026 - Scottish Industrial Heritage

DAY 1

We depart in the morning travelling to Scotland and arrive late afternoon at the Riverside Lodge Hotel, Irvine. 4 nights stay - dinner, bed & breakfast. Tea/coffee and biscuits on arrival.

DAY 2

We head into Glasgow today to visit the superb, newly opened Riverside Glasgow Transport Museum. Afterwards we travel a short distance out of the city to the Burrell Collection located in the heart of Pollock Country Park. The collection is named after its donor, shipping magnet Sir William Burrel. It is a diverse collection ranging from work by major artists to important artefacts from medieval, Chinese, Islamic and ancient civilizations.

DAY 3

Today we make the short trip to visit the Scottish Maritime Museum in Irvine. The museum hots a collection of historic vessels to view alongside showcasing Scotland’s ship building heritage. The rest of the day is then free to explore Irvine at leisure.

DAY 4

Our day begins with a drive south along the Ayrshire coast through Troon to Ayr, where we visit the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum. The museum is a celebration of the early life and the enduring legacy of Scotland’s national poet and home to 5,000 Burns artefacts including his handwritten manuscripts. In the afternoon we make the short trip to Dumfries House, one of Britain’s most
beautiful stately homes and best kept secrets, with sumptuous interiors and furnishings all set around 2000 acres of land. Remaining virtually unchanged in 250 years, in 2007 King Charles III headed a consortium of charities to purchase the house in order to keep this historical jewel intact and accessible to the public.

DAY 5

After breakfast, we depart the hotel and begin our journey home with fond memories of our time in Ayrshire.

B=Breakfast, D=Dinner