Autumn Road Trip Drive On A827 And A9 To Pitlochry Highland Perthshire Scotland

Tour Scotland travel video of an Autumn road trip drive, with Scottish bagpipes and drums music, East on the A827 road from Aberfeldy through Grandtully and Logierait then North on the A9 road to Pitlochry in Highland Perthshire. The A827, passes through the centre of Aberfeldy, a destination for many bus tours and famous for the Burns poem, The Birks of Aberfeldy. Pitlochry is largely a Victorian town, which developed into a tourist resort after Queen Victoria and Prince Albert visited the area in 1842 and bought a highland estate at Balmoral, and the arrival of the railway in 1863. It remains a popular tourist resort today. 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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