Two Scots Abroad is a travel guide website run by a team of passionate travellers dedicated to helping others find their way.
We write Scotland travel guides from the inside, we grew up here, we come back constantly, and we know the difference between the NC500 in July and the NC500 in October. Beyond Scotland, we have covered destinations across 35+ countries on six continents, all visited in person
Who Are The Two Scots Abroad Team?
Who Are We? Two Scots Abroad was established in 2014 by Gemma and Craig. In 2026, a new team of passionate travelers took the reins, continuing to grow the site’s first-hand destination coverage and Scotland guides, bringing their Edinburgh roots and years of travel experience to an already well-travelled site. Since then, they have been expanding destination coverage and deepening the Scotland guides already published.
As native Scots, our knowledge of Scotland runs deeper than a week-long press trip. We have hiked the Munros, driven the North Coast 500 in both directions, walked the West Highland Way, explored the Highlands in every season, and eaten our way through Edinburgh and Glasgow’s food scenes over many years. Every guide we publish is reviewed before it goes live.
Outside Scotland, Two Scots Abroad coverage spans:
- South America: Machu Picchu, the Lares Trek, Colca Canyon, Lima, Cusco, Arequipa (Peru); La Paz, the Death Road, Salar de Uyuni (Bolivia); Cartagena, Medellín, Bogotá, the Coffee Region (Colombia)
- Southeast Asia: Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Koh Samui, Pai (Thailand); Hanoi & Ha Long Bay, Sapa (Vietnam); Cambodia; Hokkaido, Yokohama (Japan)
- North America: road trips across the Pacific Northwest, the American South, Texas, New England, and the Midwest, plus Vancouver and the Sunshine Coast of BC
- Europe: Vienna, Budapest, Paris, Barcelona, Amsterdam, Lisbon, Rome, Sarajevo, Kraków, Ljubljana, and more
- Middle East & beyond: Dubai, South Africa, India, Belize, Caribbean
Whether planning a long weekend trip in Vienna or researching what to take on a road trip, Two Scots Abroad has you covered.
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Why Trust Our Scotland Travel Guides?
A lot of Scotland content online is written by people who visited for four days in August. Ours isn’t.
We are from Edinburgh. Scotland is not a content category for us, it is home. That means our guides carry information that takes years to accumulate: which NC500 campsites fill before noon in peak season, which Munros are genuinely achievable for fit beginners versus which demand proper hillwalking experience, where to eat in Edinburgh that is not already listed on every other travel blog
Our Scotland coverage includes:
- The North Coast 500 — itineraries, accommodation, camping, touring tips by season
- The West Highland Way — packing lists, accommodation, cheat sheets
- Munros — Ben Nevis, Ben Vorlich, and others with first-timer guidance
- Edinburgh — things to do, where to stay, pubs, day trips
- Glasgow — one-day guides, the Comedy Festival, where to stay
- The Highlands — Aviemore, Isle of Skye, Culross, Fife, castle hotels
- Scottish road trips and routes beyond the NC500
- Scottish culture — Hogmanay abroad, Scottish food and drink, Highland Explorer tours, Outlander filming locations
How We Create Our Guides
Every guide on Two Scots Abroad is written by a named author who has been to the destination.
For Scotland content, our process is: Cameron or Katie writes the guide from first-hand experience; the other reviews it for accuracy; we agree before it publishes. This dual-review step exists because getting Scotland wrong is not something we are willing to do.
For destinations beyond Scotland, we work with a team of specialist travel writers, each covering the regions they actually know. Our writers include journalists, former expats, and long-term residents of their subject areas. Every contributor is named and linked on our writers page.
We do not publish content written about places the author has not visited. We do not accept paid placement or sponsored reviews that we would not write independently. If we recommend something, it is because we believe it is genuinely useful to you.
Meet the Two Scots Abroad Team
Two Scots Abroad has been growing since its founding in 2014, and continues to expand under its current team.. To cover as many destinations as possible with the same standard of first-hand accuracy, over the course of the history of the site, we have content written from a variety of writers, each covering the regions they know from the inside. Meet the full team
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