Touring Scotland, do we have to book?

Now travel is opening up between Europe more vans will be appearing generally and Scotland is very popular so booking is a sensible idea. Look out for aire type stops on the Campra web site.

Thanks for all your tips, we have not entirely given up on Europe, waiting to see what the green list brings. We have a Eurotunnel booking for 25th Aug, a credit left over from last year which we are told we can rebook for next year if necessary.

 

To see Edinburgh itself, I would always use the main Club site rather than one of the ones further out.  Less time spent travelling, and a good bus service.

There is also a "taxi" service which will collect you from the site,drop you off in the city and collect you  from the city and take you back to the site.The owner apparently does the service because it gets him out of the house!

In some areas of Scotland club sites and CLs are few and far between.  If you do not already have it download the search for sites app.  It has the Campra aires mentioned by Brue above as well as other sites.

If you can't get on the Edinburgh site try Slatebarns caravan site.  (Chapel Loan, Roslin, EH25 9PU.  It used to be a club site.  There is a good bus service into Edinburgh and also a good Pub/restaurant in easy walking distance.

We recently stayed at a CL at the charmingly named "Boggs Holding". 12 miles to the centre of Edinburgh as the crow flies. Remote location though so you would have to drive in or find a convenient parking spot on the outskirts.

The CL is still there at Sladeburn,  which I presume is the one you were referring to BM, just by Roslin Chapel, as well as the small commercial site.

The small commercial site used to be a club site owned by the same couple who own the Slatebarns CL.  The CL is always very popular but the small site may have some capacity.  They are both good.

I just wish people would stop talking about  " wild camping " in relation to RVs and caravans !  Wild camping was only ever meant for walkers and climbers venturing in to the hills ON FOOT and pitching one man tents. Some local authorities seem to enable wild camping by providing some basic facilities, but only to try to prevent the disgusting accumulation of human waste which is appearing in rural areas since the advent of the so called NC 500.  However all this is ruining the very thing that attracted visitors to Scotland, ie. wilderness, tranquillity etc. The law did not anticipate how tourism would suddenly evolve, but the reality is, that just as in England, there is no such thing as wild camping 

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