NessTours

NessTours Luxury private tours in Edinburgh and across Scotland. Walking tours, day tours and bespoke custom experiences with a local accredited guide.

NessTours offers luxury private tours in Edinburgh and across Scotland, led by an accredited local tour guide. We specialise in private walking tours, scenic day tours from Edinburgh, and fully bespoke custom tours of Scotland, tailored to your interests, pace, and travel style. Explore historic cities, ancient castles, dramatic Highland landscapes, coastal villages, whisky distilleries, and famou

s filming locations through personal, authentic experiences. Selected tours can include private transport for families and small groups.

31/05/2026

Short shippets heading around West End of Edinburgh UNESCO World Heritage part of Edinburgh - New Town. Passing many interesting structures, pointing just a few out, worth exploring further.

28/05/2026

Edinburgh City the old town with biodiversity. Bees food plenty of wild flowers, just off the Mound and honey from the place with money - museum of Monies at the Mound

27/05/2026

Let see the Edinburgh Castle from the best place to have some fun - Grassmarket with second oldest pub in Edinburgh

25/05/2026

In Edinburgh, the Old Town, half wooden shutters, will get open in the old days, to empty the wooden chamber pot with a noise of Gardyloo - we think it is French meaning - mind the water.

23 May — from Waterloo to the naming of natureOn 23 May 1846, Ensign Charles Ewart died. Born near Kilmarnock in 1769, h...
23/05/2026

23 May — from Waterloo to the naming of nature

On 23 May 1846, Ensign Charles Ewart died. Born near Kilmarnock in 1769, he joined the Royal North British Dragoons, better known as the Scots Greys, at the age of 20.

At the Battle of Waterloo on 18 June 1815, the 45-year-old sergeant captured the regimental eagle of the French 45th Regiment of the Line — one of the most famous trophies taken that day. Ewart was remembered as an expert rider and swordsman, a man of great physical strength.

Also born on 23 May, in 1707, was Carl Linnaeus, the Swedish naturalist who gave science a clear system for naming living things: binomial nomenclature.

That system shaped the world of botany — the kind of structured plant knowledge used by figures such as John Hope at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, and later echoed in the scientific world that helped inspire Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes.

One date, two very different legacies:
a Scottish cavalryman at Waterloo,
and the language science still uses to name life.

22/05/2026

🔍 22 May 1859 — Arthur Conan Doyle is born in Edinburgh

Before Sherlock Holmes became the world’s most famous detective, his creator was learning the habits of observation in Edinburgh.

Arthur Conan Doyle studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh Medical School, and in 1877 took a compulsory course in Vegetable Histology and Practical Biology at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.

That training mattered.

His medical teacher Joseph Bell helped inspire Holmes’s famous powers of observation and deduction. His botany teacher John Hutton Balfour helped shape Doyle’s knowledge of plants, including poisonous ones — knowledge later reflected in the Holmes stories.

Sherlock Holmes may belong to Baker Street, but some of his roots grew in Edinburgh.

22/05/2026

Edinburgh Castle after hours, the rare opportunity to see that attraction and experience what it has to offer in a quiet setting. Precious

18/05/2026

In Dunfermline that used to be Capital of Scotland, now the newest city, devil is dancing there.

16/05/2026

Not as I added 2025, but the second one 2026 that just happened for a second time in Edinburgh. The Tartan Parade, here the green one is myself. Good day to all (Lang may yer lum reek)

14/05/2026

Welcome to Culross — a wee time machine for Outlander fans. No standing stones required… although, this being Scotland, stones are absolutely everywhere.

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