Friday 28th June- Friday 5th July 2008 Friday 8th August - Friday 15th August 2008 (or just state your dates..tour runs according to demand too) Prices - from £1100 - £1500 dependant upon accommodation and itinerary choice  SELF-DRIVE TOURS WITH ACCOMMODATION BOOKED ALSO AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST

This six - seven day tour particularly suits women who are travelling alone and who wish to join similar minded people to explore the sacredness of the land. There are extensive complimentary notes available as well as Jackie being at hand to explain the historic and energetic elements of the sites to you personally. There a number of significant ley lines you can dowse with pendulums of rods made available to you if you so wish to connect at that level. This tour covers many sites that are complimentary to Roslin and Jackie can explain why this is so. The sites often activate people in a very deep manner.

Itinerary

Day 1: Evening meal in hotel followed by orientation led by Jackie Queally of Celtic Trails

Day 2:  Journey up through Perthshire to Fortingall

En route we visit Dunkeld that was an important early ecclesiastical centre in the time of the Picts, when the southern Picts moved their headquarters from Abernethy to Dunkeld a little to the north. The Culdees were associated with Dunkeld. Nearby the Pictish standing stones at Meigle are well worth a visit and some display Christian symbols as well as the pagan animal symbols, for in the ninth century the Pictish tribes were becoming Christian. The Tay valley inland is very beautiful and we visit an interesting site at Grandtully that has long been in use for worship. The villages of Weem and Dull are associated with St Cuthbert of Lindisfarne and St Adomnan of Iona respectively, and there are ancient crosses to view, old hermitage sites and older worship stones in close proximity. The climb to St Cuthbert’s Cave in the woods above Weem is typical of spots where the early monks preferred to dwell - close to nature, in the spirit of their ancestors. Dull is highly significant in terms of its Iona connections, for this was where the Iona Church had its sister mainland monastic site – but as ever in this region there is evidence of older worship, and even Templar! Hotel: near Fortingall

Day 2: Glen Lyon

Fortingall is an early Christian settlement led by St Chad , but it was used for many thousands of years as a place for Druidic worship – the yew beside the church is the most ancient tree in Europe and dates between 5 and 7 thousand years old! The yew tree was at the centre of a pre-Christian religious culture in the valley.

There are many early Christian and prehistoric worship sites in the vicinity.

The glen is the longest inhabited glen in Scotland but habitation is sparse – the natural world remains supreme here with much local folklore, fairy stories and ancient myths.

Jackie will provide you with a synopsis of all the sites in Glen Lyon – they include old bronze bells the monks carried with them, Iron Age forts (known as Irish homesteads!), Celtic crosses, and standing stones. There even is a settlement where Pontius Pilate is supposed to have lived as a child!

Schiehallion is the main faerie mountain of Scotland and coupled with the glen offers the most magical atmosphere imaginable.

Hotel: near Fortingall

Day 3: Travel to Iona Abbey for evening service

Tracing the same route the Ionan monks made in the early centuries, we take the ferry to Mull from Oban and visit the Maclean seat at Duart Castle before crossing to the north of the island to catch the small ferry to Iona, where we stay at the St Colomba Hotel. The hotel is adjacent to the abbey and its menu daily features organic produce that the hotel staff grow on the same walled plot the Columban monks used to grow their food in!

Evening service in the abbey follows dinner at the hotel

Hotel: St Columba’s Hotel, Iona

Day 4: Day free to explore the island with its many ancient sites. There is an optional small boat journey to the Isle of Staffa for those who wish to visit this basalt wonder with Fingal’s Cave accessible only if weather conditions are favourable.

Hotel: St Columba

Day 5: Return on afternoon ferry and travel to the uniquely styled Kilmartin Museum in Kilmartin Valley , that is an archaeological wonder. Visit Kilmichael Glassary and Kichrennan on Loch Awe. View magnificent early Celtic church cell restored in medieval times

Hotel: Lochmelfort Hotel on Loch Awe

Day 6: Return to Edinburgh via a boat trip to Inchcolm Island that St Columba may well have visited, that has a ruined mediaeval abbey on it.

Hotel: Edinburgh

Day 7: Additional day trip to Lindisfarne is optional

Hotel: Edinburgh

Al the sites visited are interconnected by an ancient system of ley lines that were used en masse by the Templars in Scotland Jackie can talk about these in detail if there is interest shown by those attending.

Dowsing such ley lines is also possible and rods will be provided.

The tours are selected according to the quality of the sites – they are full of spiritual energies so will leave you with lasting impressions.

Jackie Queally +44 (0)131 667 8510