Tour Scotland late Autumn and early Winter travel video of a road trip drive, with Scottish music, North on the A9 road on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to the village of Birnam in Highland Perthshire. John Everett Millais, who painted many local landscapes, and Beatrix Potter, with her family, often visited the village. 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. The Birnam Oak is thought to be one of the oldest trees in the area, at least 600 years old, and once part of the woodland that inspired Shakespeare during a visit to the area he is thought to have made in 1589.
When driving in Scotland, slow down and enjoy the trip. Autumn leaf color or colour is a phenomenon that affects the normally green leaves of many deciduous trees and shrubs by which they take on, during a few weeks in the Autumn season, various shades of red, yellow, purple, black, orange, pink, magenta, blue and brown. The phenomenon is commonly called autumn colours or autumn foliage in British English and fall colors, fall foliage or simply foliage in American English
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