Glasgow

Bold, beautiful and brimming with character, Glasgow is best seen on its own terms. It made its money in shipbuilding and spent it on architecture, which is why the city centre looks the way it does, and your private guide shows you how the one led to the other.

You begin at George Square, overlooked by the City Chambers, before moving on to Buchanan Street and Merchant Square, where the confidence of that shipbuilding fortune is written into the buildings. Glasgow Cathedral, which survived the Reformation intact, tells an older story, and the tour ends on the banks of the Clyde, the river the whole place was built around.

It is private, so the pace is yours and the route can bend to your interests, whether that means more time among the buildings or more time by the water.