HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!Welcome to 2024 and an exciting year of adventures ahead. We already have a number of slots booked in for this year, from Family groups exploring across Scotland, to Ancestry tours discovering family heritage, Mary Queen of Scots and of course our very popular Outlander immersive tours. Whatever, you would like from a …
We are based in Linlithgow, which is right at the heart of Outlander filming locations, with several right on our doorstep. We are dedicated fans of the books and TV series, and take part in as many Outlandish events as we can, both here and abroad. Our tours are a must!
Newsletter 5th May 2020
Who would have realised, just 2 mths ago, when we were at the Visit Scotland Thistle Awards, celebrating all that is best about Scottish tourism, that in such a short space of time all our worlds would have ground to a shuddering halt. At that point, we were in the early stages of the …
Our Outlander Adventure: 2016 to 2019
In 2016 we did head back to Tartan Week in New York, and how excited we were when it was announced that Sam Heughan would be The Grand Marshall of The Tartan Day Parade. The whole City became one big Outlander party, and that’s when it really hit home, just how huge this phenomenon is. …
Mary’s Meanders Tour With Diana Gabaldon
We have just had the most amazing few days with Diana Gabaldon, who was justly being recognised for her contribution to Scottish Tourism with The Outlander books and subsequent TV series. And we were honoured at Mary’s Meanders to have been part of the celebration.
Loving Outlander – Tours 2018
Sometimes it’s just nice to take time to reflect on the many fun times we have had on our Outlander Journey. From our very first tour back in 2014 to attending the first Outlander Premiere in Glasgow, Season 2 in New York (and attending the Starz after party), the fantastic Outlandish UK Gatherings – we …
Filming locations update
Hello, You may have seen in the media that there are a number of different movies (Mary Queen of Scots, Outlaw King – Robert the Bruce) being filmed here at the moment. Unfortunately, it does mean that there are some site closures over the next few months. We will endeavour to add a different location …
Outlander Filming Location Tours – Entry Fees 2017
Individual entry costs (Concession Age 60+) Outlander filming tour locations Doune Castle – Historic Scotland £6 (£4.80) Culross – National Trust Special discounted rate £6.50 (usually £10.50) Falkland Free as we don’t go into the Palace Dysart- Free Tullibardine Chapel – where Rupert loses his eye – Historic Scotland Free Drummond Castle – …
Bonjour, Guten Morgen & Hello from our new team members.
You asked for French & German Outlander Tours and we have delivered! We are delighted to announce that our team is growing – please join us in welcoming Renate, Séverine and Angalica to the Mary’s Meanders team. Renate and Séverine have come on board in response to the growing number of requests we have for …
Scottish Themed Dinner with a hint of Outlander!
On Friday night we hosted 43 guests for our dinner show from Alaska who are touring around Ireland and Scotland. This is not just any typical tour group, it consists of 7 musicians who make up a band called Rogues and Wenches & their fans who happen to be Outlander fans too. The evening …
Outlander Filming Locations Entry Fees
To help you prepare for your visit to Scotland, be it for Outlander, Ancestral or a more general sightseeing tour, we have listed the entry fees below. These locations are the most popular based on our clients visits from previous years. If you need any advice at all, please just email us or send us a …
Travel in comfort on your Outlander or Ancestral Tour with Mary’s Meanders
We want our clients to experience the very best of everything on their Outlander Tour and comfortable transport is part of the package when you tour with Mary’s Meanders. Over the past few months I’ve been spending time researching different 7 seater vehicles, trying to work out which would be the best for our clients. …
Outlander Locations Tours – Gift Vouchers
Tour gift vouchers are a wonderful present for friends and family. Whether it is for a birthday, an anniversary, Christmas, a relative visiting Scotland, a passionate Outlander fan, a wedding present, leaving gift for a colleague or for any other occasion, we have the ideal escorted tour for them. To purchase a gift …
Highlights from our Outlander Tour
Please enjoy a quick tour around some of the Outlander filming sites that are part of a our standard Outlander Tour. We are very lucky to live just minutes away from Midhope Castle (Lallybroch) and many of the other sites are within a 20-minute drive of Linlithgow. For further details please email Emma at emma@marysmeanders.co.uk …
Access to Lallybroch (Midhope Castle) is limited this Winter
Midhope Caste, known fictionally as the Fraser family home ‘Lallybroch’ from the Outlander TV series, is used as an exterior film location during both Season 1 and 2. It is on a private estate near Abercorn. Hopetoun Estate often has to prohibit access to visitors due to farming operations, pheasant shooting days or large public …
Lights Camera Action – On set at the filming of Outlander Series 2
Anne and I are incredibly lucky to live where we do. Linlithgow is quite literally at the heart of many Outlander filming locations & it is quite strange to realise you are walking the dog where months earlier Jamie and Claire were saying their emotional goodbyes! Over the winter months, we made it along to a number …
Tartan and Kilt making workshop
Inspired by Visit Scotland’s Year of Innovation, Architecture and Design 2016 – Mary’s Meanders will be hosting different workshops, talks, events throughout the year that embrace this theme. The first is detailed below. In conjunction with BORDER KILT CRAFT – Tartan and Kilt making workshop. Saturday 5th March 2-4pm Westport Hotel, Linlithgow …
Elias’s Mini Outlander Tour
Elias’s visit to Scotland part 2 These photos were taken the morning after the house concert so no zooming in to see how tired we all look! Elias had to get back to Glasgow so after a quick cooked breakfast we packed up and headed down to Lallybroch. I’m not sure what the dogs thought …
Emma’s New York Tartan Week
My adventure began before I had even left Linlithgow. As soon as I signed up, I was welcomed with open arms by the US ladies and brought into the Outlanders United fold. I discovered that the only other person going from Outlandish, UK was Julianne, who actually lives in the US. I’m so glad that …
Our Outlander Inspired Dinner Show Returns
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Scotland Now review of Outlander Tour and Show
FOR fans of the Outlander books, it’s impossible not to be seduced by imagining fierce, kilt-clad highlanders and misty stone fortresses. Then there’s the lure of real places with high drama where the story was filmed. Our small group, led by guide Anne, consisted of four women and two men but everyone had at least …
Visit Scotland Press Release – Taste of Outlander
Press Release • Jul 03, 2015 10:37 BST Fans of the hit television series Outlander can satisfy their hunger for more Jamie and Claire adventures with the launch of a new dinner show inspired by Diana Gabaldon’s bestselling books. VisitScotland Information Centres in Edinburgh’s Princes Street and at Edinburgh Airport are now selling tickets for …
The Outlander Podcast 100th Episode
Last month we were thrilled to have Ginger & Summer from The Outlander Podcast at our Taste of Outlander Dinner Show. Here is their 100th Podcast in which they talk about their impression of Linlithgow, The Star and Garter Hotel and of course the show. Please sit down and have a listen and of course …
Outlander Glasgow Premiere
Last night Anne and I attended the Amazon Prime Premier of Outlander. We enjoyed dinner & a catch up with our Outlandish UK friends before heading over to the Grosvenor Cinema in Ashton Lane. Here are just a few photos of the night and yes we did ask if we could take Jamie home with …
