The largest equine sculpture in the world, the Kelpies stand proud alongside the Forth & Clyde Canal. In Scottish folklore, a kelpie is a dangerous shape-shifting water creature that can appear on land as a horse. The kelpie appears to their human victims as a grey or white horse, entices them to ride on their back, then carries them down to a watery grave.

The Falkirk Wheel was a must on our route - having learned about the world's only rotating boat lift at school, we couldn’t come all this way and not make this a stop!

Dukes Pass through the Trossachs

One of the best driving roads in the UK, originally build by Duke of Montrose in the 19th Century - improved later after Sir Walter Scott's poem The Lady of the Lake drew tourists to the area in droves.