Tour Scotland Travel Video Spring Drive On A9 Road North To Birnam Highland Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of a Spring road trip drive North on the A9 road from Perth on ancestry visit to the village of Birnam, Highland Perthshire, Scotland. John Everett Millais, who painted many local landscapes, and Beatrix Potter, with her family, often visited Birnam. The Birnam Oak is an iconic tree on the outskirts of the Perthshire village and celebrated in Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Birnam is approximately one hour from Glasgow and Edinburgh airports, and two hours from Inverness in the Highlands by car. 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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