hello, I was wondering why no-one has mension one thing about Perth? Is it a place to ship while touring through Scotland?
Thank you.

As I've followed this message board for a couple of years now, I've discovered something. Sometimes when people don't mention something, it's a plus.

Several places I've been to in the last three years I've thoroughly enjoyed even though it's ignored or people berate it. Examples are Luxembourg, Liege, Brussels (yes I like Brussels,) Norwich, Tours, Glasgow, Winchester, Leipzig, Orleans, France's Central Massif, Orebro, Turku and Helsinki come to mind.

We did like Tours and stumbled on it by accident. Chester in England was another place we liked that seemed not to get a lot of positive buzz. Part of the joy of traveling, and the reason we always try to keep some flexibility in our schedule for unexpected surprises

Sevakaur.

It's an urban myth that they've already shipped it to Western Australia. That was just a model.

I used to go there quite a bit on business. It was - and presumably still is - a pleasant enough Scottish town that hasn't been destroyed by late 20th century planners, and is really very attractive in some parts. Not. IMHO, an undervisited gem, like St Andrews or Chester. But equally not an East Kilbride or Cumbernauld (mid 20th century New Towns). Nor the kind of town, like Hamilton or Alloa, that's turned into little more than a shopping mall and a football stadium.
Pleasant to walk round (they always told me you could see salmon leaping up the river bridge at the right time of year, though it never seemed to be the right time of year). A few OK hotels. Lots of nice stuff nearby.

More a place to base yourself in than to make a detour to see.

Just to add to the list of "great undervisited towns" I'll nominate Shrewsbury. What a lovely town

I've used Perth as a base and found it to be much as flanneruk described it. It makes a good base for the traveller without a car, because it is at the junction of several rail lines and has good bus service.

I posted a long answer to this earlier today and ...pooof!...it's diappeared.

As a native of and frequent visitor to Perth, I know I've answered a few Perth questions over the last 4 years on this Board. I keep a Word document extolling its delights which I would be happy to send you.

However I think there is probably a real answer to the question. It's in between. It's not big enough to be a major city, nor small enough to be quaint. It has history but not as much as edinburgh 50 minutes away; ditto architecture. It's got good shopping, but not a patch on Edinburgh OR Glasgow an hour and a quarter away.

It's a nice town, not a stunning town. It has some lovely walks and gardens, and a few good restaurants. But the most it's got going for it is that it's a major road and rail link, and it's not Edinburgh or Glasgow.

And the football team!! It's painful to support it, as I have all these years.

I loved Perth and Inverness. If you go to Perth, drop by the Cherry Bank Pub.

The Cherrybank; wow! There's a rave from the grave.