Tour Scotland Travel Video Beautiful Spring Drive On A9 Road North To Blair Atholl Highland Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of a beautiful Spring road trip drive North on the A9 road from Perth on ancestry visit to the village of Blair Atholl in Highland, Perthshire, Scotland. Blair Atholl, from the Scottish Gaelic: Blàr Athall, originally Blàr Ath Fhodla, is a village built about the confluence of the Rivers Tilt and Garry in one of the few areas of flat land in the midst of the Grampian Mountains. The Gaelic place name Blair, from blàr, meaning field or plain, refers to this location. Atholl, which mean " new Ireland ", from the archaic Ath Fhodla is the name of the surrounding district. The A9 is a major road running from central Scotland to Scrabster Harbour, Thurso in the far north, via Stirling, Bridge of Allan, Perth and Inverness. At 273 miles, it is the longest road in Scotland and the fifth longest A road in the United Kingdom. Historically it was the main road between Edinburgh and John o' Groats, and has been called the spine of Scotland. Drive with great care and patience on this road as it regularly appears in lists of Scotland's most dangerous roads.

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