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(double £133) are substantially larger than the standards. Service is very welcoming.
There's a fairly formal restaurant, as well as a livelier pub alongside serving creative bar
meals.
PUB
Taybank£
(
01350-727340;
www.thetaybank.com
;
Tay Tce; mains £5-9)
Top choice for a sun-
kissed pub lunch by the river is the Taybank, a regular meeting place and performance
space for musicians of all creeds and a wonderfully open and welcoming bar. There's live
music of some kind nightly, and the menu runs to burgers and various incarnations of
stovies (stewed potato and onion with meat or other ingredients).
Information
Dunkeld's
tourist office
(
01350-727688;
www.perthshire.co.uk
; The Cross; daily
Apr-Oct, Fri-Sun Nov-Mar)
has information on local trails and paths.
Getting There & Away
Dunkeld is 15 miles north of Perth. Trains and buses between Glasgow/Edinburgh and In-
verness stop here.
Stagecoach
(
www.stagecoachbus.com
)
also runs 10 buses daily (only
one on Sunday) between Perth and Aberfeldy via Dunkeld. There are also services to
Blairgowrie (30 minutes), twice daily Monday to Friday only.
PITLOCHRY
POP 2564
Pitlochry, with its air already smelling of the Highlands, is a popular stop on the way
north and a convenient base for exploring northern central Scotland. On a quiet spring
evening it's a pretty place with salmon jumping in the Tummel and good things brewing
at the Moulin Hotel. In summer the main street can be a conga line of tour groups, but get
away from that and it'll still charm you.
Sights
One of Pitlochry's attractions is its beautiful
riverside
; the River Tummel is dammed
here, and you can watch salmon swimming (not jumping) up a
fish ladder
to the loch
above.
Bell's Blair Athol Distillery
DISTILLERY
