| Hi Everyone As we look forward to the holiday season and the year ahead, we have some exciting new tours. If you want to remind yourself of our current travel advice, click here We were lucky to be able to attend the Clanlands Almanac launch at The Usher Hall in Edinburgh with Sam and Graham, and they were on great form. It was also so good to catch up with some of our Outlander friends, though not enough. A proper get together in the New Year would be fabulous. Outlander news has been fast and furious with the Bees launch and the new series announcement for March. So, we are buzzing (pun intended) with anticipation. Hello to all our new followers from the online event by The Wake County Library, in North Carolina. What an amazing program that was. And we were delighted to have 456 attendees for our session. We love sharing our wonderful locations with you. If you belong to a group who would like an online tour, please contact emma@marysmeanders.co.uk and we’ll be happy to help. |
 |
| Introducing our Man in a Kilt tour We introduced you to Dave last month, now we are delighted to launch our new tour, inspired by the Clanlands book, Men in Kilts series, and the new Clanlands Almanac. Dave will lead you on a 3 day adventure to Glencoe, Fife and Stirling, where you will visit castles, walk in the stunning Countryside, hear tales of Clans and even take part in battle tactics. We will share stories of myths and legends and of course enjoy some of the best food and drink. Active participation will be encouraged, and a little healthy competition may be included. The tour does visit some Outlander locations such as Culross and Falkland, but we will be looking at them in a different light. To enjoy this tour to its full extent a reasonable level of fitness is required as we will be taking a walk in Fife and Glencoe. If you are not sure, get in touch as we are here to help you decide if you can manage. You can find full details of the tour here Our first tour in May is open for booking and you can take advantage of our Launch offer today. If you book by the 20th Dec 2021 the price will be £320 (instead of £350). Use the Promo Code DAVE when booking. This tour is for a maximum of 6 guests, so we expect to sell out quickly Book here |
 |
| Gift Vouchers Tis the season…. for giving. Our Gift Cards make the perfect gift, and you can buy in any amount from £25. Redeemable against any of our tours. BUY NOW Travel Agents In case you weren’t aware, we are now working with a number of travel agents, and we have a dedicated area on our booking platform for Travel Trade. If you know of anyone who may be interested in working with us, please ask them to contact emma@marysmeanders.co.uk and we can arrange a chat. We would love to share with them our special travel trade educational workshop that helps them find out what Scotland has to offer! Reminder of some of our forthcoming tours Tour Bookings for 2022 and 2023 We are now looking forward with confidence to next year and cannot wait to meet old e and as you can imagine, with tours being deferred from 2020 and 2021, we have a few dates that are now pretty full for 2022. But please get in touch and we will do our very best to accommodate you. Our hugely popular Outlander 5 day immersion tours are back for 2022 and 2023, and we have added extra dates to accommodate new bookings, as well as those who have deferred from previous years. This is a real trip of a lifetime, sharing all things Outlander with fellow fans and enjoying local life. You can find out more about the tour here. We have great availability in 2023, but for next year spaces are limited We do have availability on the following dates: May 9th 2022 May 16th 2022 Sep 5th 2022- extremely limited Sep 19th 2022- limited Our Outlander group day tours and 3 day tours have still to be fully confirmed, but if you are planning to come next year and have specific dates in mind, please do get in touch and we may add a new group tour for your dates, if it fits our schedule. Don’t assume the only tours we have are those listed on the website. We are happy to design a private tour for you and your group. Get in touch and we’ll see what we can do. Virtual Tours We know that not everyone will be able to travel in the near future, so we will be bringing back our programme of Virtual tours over the winter months. Details will be announced on Social Media |
 |
| Ancestry We have been delving into some exciting new Ancestry stories in the past month, including an unexpected direct link to Alexander Hamilton, as well as other illustrious links, such as John Napier, the Scottish mathematician, for one family. Another Ancestry tour around the Dundee area led us to JM Barrie- author of Peter Pan. His family were weavers in Kirriemuir and he shared a grandfather with our family. A real “Who Do You Think You are” moment. If you are a select member of Amazon Prime in the USA, you may have been offered their new service, Amazon Explore – experiences. We are offering a Scottish Ancestry consultation on this service, and we have met some wonderful people and been given some amazing new stories to delve into. NB- Amazon are now offering their experiences at 30% off as part of their Black Friday campaign. We are happy to offer a similar service direct to you all. It is a one-hour consultation, via Zoom. We ask you to send info. in advance so we can carry out some research before we meet. The cost for this is £75. (Any further follow up research will incur additional costs). Spaces are limited. If you are interested, please email anne@marysmeanders.co.uk to discuss. Coming Soon…. Wedding, handfasting, commemoration, anniversary, and celebration events with local Celebrant Gillian Robertson. We are thrilled to be developing this new venture with Gillian. In the meantime, if you have a special event you would like to mark here in Scotland, please get in touch to discuss. In 2023 it will be the 250th anniversary of the sailing of the Hector ship from Loch Broom in the Scottish Highlands to Nova Scotia. We are already working on a major project with the descendants of Hector group in Pictou and we will be delivering two events to tie in with the commemorations in July and September 2023. If you have ancestors who left Scotland around this time (late 1700’s to early 1800’s), we would love to hear from you, as we are developing quite a wealth of knowledge on this period. Keep watching our Social Media for new items and further details. www.facebook.com/MarysMeanders www.instagram.com/marysmeanders twitter.com/MarysMeanders Keep safe and well and we will see you soon. Emma & Anne www.marysmeanders.co.uk https://www.paypal.me/marysmeanders |
New for Halloween !!!
