Tour Scotland Travel Video Bank Holiday Weekend Drive South Through Glen Quaich Highlands

Tour Scotland travel video of a Bank Holiday Weekend road trip drive South on the single track road, with passing places, through Glen Quaich on ancestry visit to Amulree in the Highlands of Perthshire, Scotland. In the United Kingdom and Ireland a bank holiday is a public holiday, when banks and many other businesses are closed for the day. Bank holidays are often assumed to be so called because they are days upon which banks are shut, but days that banks are shut aren't always bank holidays. A single track road or one lane road is a road that permits two way travel but is not wide enough in most places to allow vehicles to pass one another, although sometimes two compact cars can pass. In Scotland you may also find sheep walking on the road. This kind of road is common in rural areas across the United Kingdom and elsewhere. The term is widely used in Scotland, particularly the Highlands, to describe such roads. Glen Quaich gets its name from the River Quaich which runs through it into Loch Freuchie. The Highland clearances in Breadalbane, did not occur until the 1830’s, under the command of the Second Marquis of Breadalbane. In 1835, the factor, James Wyllie, had cleared the entire population of Glenquaich, with most Scots in the Glen taking flight by sea and populating lands in the new world mostly to North Easthope, Canada.

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