Travel Reference
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DUNDEE & ANGUS
Angus is fertile farming region stretching north from Dundee - Scotland's fourth-largest
city - to the Highland border. It's an attractive area of broad straths (valleys) and low, green
hills contrasted with the rich, red-brown soil of freshly ploughed fields. Romantic glens
finger their way into the foothills of the Grampian Mountains, while the scenic coastline
ranges from the red-sandstone cliffs of Arbroath to the long, sandy beaches around Mon-
trose. This was the Pictish heartland of the 7th and 8th centuries, and many interesting Pic-
tish symbol stones survive here.
Apart from the crowds visiting Discovery Point in newly confident Dundee and the
coach parties shuffling through Glamis Castle, Angus is a bit of a tourism backwater and a
good place to escape the hordes.
Dundee
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London's Trafalgar Sq has Nelson on his column, Edinburgh's Princes St has its monument
to Sir Walter Scott and Belfast has a statue of Queen Victoria outside City Hall. Dundee's
City Sq, on the other hand, is graced - rather endearingly - by the bronze figure of Desper-
ate Dan. Familiar to generations of British school children, Dan is one of the best-loved
cartoon characters from the children's comic the
Dandy,
published by Dundee firm DC
Thomson since 1937.
Dundee enjoys perhaps the finest location of any Scottish city, spreading along the north-
ern shore of the Firth of Tay, and boasts tourist attractions of national importance in Dis-
covery Point and the Verdant Works museum. Add in the attractive seaside town of
Broughty Ferry, some lively nightlife and the Dundonians themselves - among the friendli-
est, most welcoming and most entertaining people you'll meet - and Dundee is definitely
worth a stopover.
