Sunny Winter Road Trip Drive On Visit To Spittal of Glenshee In Highland Perthshire Scotland

Tour Scotland travel video of a sunny Winter road trip drive mostly North on the A93 road, with Scottish bagpipes and drums music, on visit to visit Spittal of Glenshee, in the highlands of Eastern Perthshire. Spittal of Glenshee is Clan MacThomas country. The progenitor of the Clan MacThomas was Thomas, who was a Scottish Gaelic speaking Highlander. He was known as Tomaidh Mòr and it is from him that the clan takes its name. He was a grandson of William Mackintosh, 7th chief of Clan Mackintosh and 8th chief of the Chattan Confederation. Thomas lived in fifteenth century when the Clan Chattan had become so large that it was unmanageable, so Thomas took his clan from Badenoch, across the Grampian Mountains to Glen Shee where they re-settled. Here they flourished and became known as McComie, McColm and McComas which are phonetic forms of the Gaelic. Members of the Clan from across the world gather every three years at the Clan's land, " Clach Na Coileach." Spittal of Glenshee is where the confluence of many small streams flowing south out of the Grampians form the Shee Water. Known as the glen of the fairies it takes its name from the Gaelic " shith " meaning fairy. The village provides a stopping place on the Cateran Trail waymarked long distance walking footpath which provides a 64 mile circuit in the glens of Perthshire and Angus. The A93 is a major road in Scotland and the highest public road in the United Kingdom. It runs north from Perth through Blairgowrie and Rattray, then through the Grampian Mountains by way of Glenshee, the Cairnwell Pass and Glen Clunie to Braemar in Aberdeenshire. All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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