Outlander: Blood of My Blood – Filming the Prequel in Luss
The ever-growing popularity of Outlander continues with its much-anticipated prequel series, Outlander: Blood of My Blood, currently expected to be broadcast in June . The new series promises to explore the lives of Jamie Fraser’s parents, Brian Fraser and Ellen MacKenzie, offering fans a deeper look at the generations that shaped the iconic love story of Jamie and Claire. Filming for this new chapter of the Fraser story took place last May and June, at the picturesque village of Luss on the banks of Loch Lomond .
We already know that Outlander filming took place last year in Glasgow , Lallybroch ( Midhope Castle ) and Castle Leoch ( Doune Castle ) . Outlander fans are getting excited about seeing the first episodes of Blood of my Blood which is expected to be
out on TV in June .
Luss has stunning views of Loch Lomond and its preserved 18th-century cottages, proved to be an ideal setting for a show steeped in Scottish history and romance. Production crews were seen transforming parts of the village into a historic Highland settlement, complete with costumed extras, horse-drawn carts, and dramatic period details. Luss is one of the prettiest locations in Scotland and it is perfect for this story.
The area around Luss is steeped in natural beauty and historic charm, providing a rich visual backdrop for the drama and emotion that Blood of My Blood is expected to deliver. . Filming in such authentic locations enhances the series’ dedication to historical detail and emotional depth.
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The popularity of the Outlander franchise has had a significant impact on Scottish tourism. Since the original series aired, fans from around the globe have flocked to filming locations such as Midhope Castle ( Lallybroch ) , Doune Castle (Castle Leoch), Blackness Castle, Falkland, and Culross. Now, with Luss added to that growing list, fans are eager to explore new corners of Scotland connected to their favourite characters.
Outlander Author Diana Gabaldon has criticized the season 7 ending as it is totally made up and not based on the books.
Gabaldon lightly criticizes the reintroduction of Master Raymond saying the character could have been brought back more elaborately. Still, the author acknowledges the budgetary limitations of television:
“I agree that the ending of 716 is flat-out weird, partly owing to their (evidently) having exhausted their budget. They could have made a more convincing visitation by Master Raymond with blurry special effects, rather than having him just walk through the door and stand there. Better to have kept it soft-focus and leave it up to question as to whether he’d actually been there, or perhaps Claire imagined or dreamed the whole thing. But easy for me to talk; I don’t have to figure out the logistics.”
“I’m frequently pleased that I can do things easily in a book, that are incredibly difficult [not to say expensive] to do in a visual medium. A book is a remarkably useful [and economical] way to tell a story.”
Gabaldon also shares that she conversed with Outlander showrunner and executive producer Matthew B. Roberts about her idea for how Faith might’ve survived and how it connects to Master Raymond:
“They actually did get the (general) idea from me, though. When chatting with [showrunner] Matt [Roberts] about All Things plot wise, I mentioned that if I had written a second graphic novel (I didn’t, for assorted reasons), I would have shown what actually happened after Faith’s presumed death at the Hopital des Anges, and how/why Master Raymond resuscitated and nurtured the baby secretly, but wasn’t able to come back with her before Claire and Jamie left France. So, they liked that idea and ran with it.”
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Private tours Edinburgh offer a range of tours which cater specifically for Outlander enthusiasts. These private tours not only provide visitors with a deep understanding of each film location’s rich history but also highlight its role in the series. Exclusive Outlander-themed tours take fans to key filming locations in Scotland and offer behind-the-scenes stories from the production.
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Lallybroch, also known as Lallybroch Castle or Castle Lallybroch, is one of the most iconic and emotionally significant locations in the Outlander series. Lallybroch castle tours with Private tours Edinburgh are available year round and can be booked below . Phone / Whatsapp +447305294773 for more information . The ancestral home of Jamie Fraser, Lallybroch serves as more than just a setting; it is a symbol of identity, belonging, and family heritage. Its importance is woven deeply into the narrative, resonating with themes of love, loyalty, and the enduring connection to one’s roots. For Outlander fans , check out our unique Lallybroch Outlander tour .
Lallybroch Castle first appears in Outlander right at the beginning of the story when Claire Randall accompanies Jamie to his family home after their escape from danger. Located in the Scottish Highlands, Castle Lallybroch is portrayed as a welcoming and warm refuge amidst the challenges faced by the characters. It represents Jamie’s connection to his lineage and his role as Laird of Broch Tuarach. His sense of duty to Lallybroch and its people drives many of his decisions throughout the series. Lallybroch appears in season 7 of Outlander when Roger and Brianna make it their home in the 1960s .
From the moment Lallybroch is introduced, it becomes clear that it is more than just a physical place. For Jamie, Castle Lallybroch is tied to his memories of his parents and his deep sense of responsibility to preserve the Fraser legacy. The castle grounds, its halls, and even the surrounding land are imbued with stories and traditions that shape Jamie’s character. He often refers to Lallybroch as his sanctuary, a place where he dreams of building a life with Claire, away from the constant turmoil of war and political strife. Lallybroch tours in Scotland are one of our most popular tours . Check out our five star tours
Lallybroch also holds a pivotal role in the development of Claire and Jamie’s relationship. As Claire integrates into the life at Castle Lallybroch, she becomes part of its history and its future. The scenes set in Lallybroch reflect a quieter, more intimate aspect of their lives, offering a stark contrast to the dangers and adventures they face elsewhere. The moments spent at Lallybroch are among the most poignant in the series, showing the couple’s shared vision of home and family. Lallybroch is certain to appear in season eight of Outlander , the final season .
The Outlander domain is one of intense emotions , high drama and many twists and turns .
Castle Lallybroch is also a place of resilience. It has just appeared in the 60s in season 7 part 2 episodes . Roger and Brianna live their with their 2 children . Even during times of hardship, such as when Jamie is forced to leave for war or when the Frasers face external threats, Lallybroch stands as a beacon of hope. It is a constant reminder of what Jamie and Claire are fighting to protect. The legacy of Lallybroch extends to future generations as well, symbolizing the enduring strength of the Fraser family.
Throughout the series, Lallybroch Castle serves as a physical and emotional anchor. Whether it’s Jamie reflecting on his responsibilities as Laird, Claire finding solace within its walls, or the family gathering to celebrate milestones, Lallybroch is ever-present. It is not just a castle but a living representation of home, love, and legacy. By revisiting Castle Lallybroch repeatedly in the narrative, the series emphasizes the importance of heritage and the power of a place to shape identity. Book Outlander tours online
From the opening of the Forth and Clyde Canal in the 1770s, the barges were pulled by one or two horses which had to be changed at various stages.
The Kelpies were inspired by the Clydesdale horses used to pull barge along the canals of Scotland. Buy Kelpies gifts online – t-shirts, phone cases, throw pillows and prints
Eilean Donan Castle in the Highlands is the most photographed castle in the world due to its unique position on an island in the middle of three lochs. Buy Eilean Donan Castle prints and gifts in the Eilean Donan Castle gift shop
Glencoe Glencoe in the Highlands of Scotland consists of the three Paps of Glencoe . This iconic mountain is in the heart of the Highlands
Edinburgh Castle , Scotland is the most popular visitor attraction in Scotland. The castle dominates the city skyline of Edinburgh . Edinburgh Castle is Scotland’s most popular visitor attraction . More than 1 million visitors are drawn each year by its spectacular location and history. They can see the Crown Jewels, the One O’Clock Gun and the Stone of Destiny as well as the Great Hall, St Margaret’s Chapel, and Mons Meg. Edinburgh Castle is a world-class attraction and today’s well-traveled tourists have high expectations. The vaults at Edinburgh Castle were constructed around 1500 and later used as soldiers’ barrack-rooms and a bakehouse. However they were used for many years as prisons of war from the 1750s into the early 1800s. The Castle is at the top of the Royal Mile . If you walk down the Royal Mile you can see a large number of gift shops , pubs and restaurants . At the foot of the Royal Mile is the new Scottish Parliament building and the Palace of Holyroodhouse , the official residence of the Queen in Scotland
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How much does it cost to visit the Kelpies ?
There is no entrance fee to pay to see the Kelpies. The first car park near the entrance is free all the year round . During the summer if you go between 10am and 5pm then there is a parking fee at the second car park of £3 . The Helix’s own tour of the Kelpies costs about £2 and they run all summer . The tour includes going inside one of the Kelpies
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There is a story behind every painting by Jack Vettriano , but the background to the painting ofBluebird at Bonnevilleis particularly interesting . The original painting was one of seven commissioned by London restaurateur and designer Sir Terence Conran in 1997. A series of seven paintings, featuring the Bluebird and produced for Sir Terence Conran’s Bluebird Club in Chelsea, were among the artist’s first major commissions.
In 2007 a number of paintings by Jack Vettriano were sold for more than £1m. The top sale was Bluebird at Bonneville, bought for £468,000 at a Sotheby’s auction held at the Gleneagles Hotel in Perthshire.
The works were inspired by the Bluebird cars driven by world-renowned racing motorist Sir Malcolm Campbell when he set nine land speed records during the 1920s and 30s.
The works were put up for auction following the refurbishment of the Bluebird Club.
A second of the Bluebird paintings, The British are Coming, fetched £114,000 at the Gleneagles sale.
The sale is the second highest price for a Vettriano after the Singing Butler fetched £744,500 in 2004.
Ballroom dancers
Five in the set went unsold but six other Vettriano paintings were snapped up by bidders.
One of the artist’s best-known images, Dance Me to the End of Love, featuring two ballroom dancers dancing on a beach, sold for £192,000.
‘Major commissions’
Study for Shades of Scarlet went for £102,000.
The eight works were bought for a total of just over £1m.
Vettriano said ahead of the sale: “The Bluebird series was one of my first major commissions, and I was thrilled when Sir Terence Conran approached me with the project.
“The brief was pretty clear: ‘I know you have to paint cars, but try and make them sexy’.
“I have always had an interest in classic cars and so the commission really appealed.”
The Fife artist received an OBE for services to the visual arts in 2003.
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In less than ten years, Jack Vettriano has emerged from obscurity to become Britain's foremost contemporary narrative painter despite having never received any formal art school training.
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Born in St Andrews, Scotland in 1954, Vettriano left school at sixteen to become a mining engineer in the local coalfields. For his twenty- first birthday, a girlfriend gave him a set of watercolour paints and, from then on, he spent much of his spare time teaching himself to paint. The local art gallery, The Kirkcaldy Museum and Art Gallery, with its renowned collection of 19th and 20th century Scottish paintings, was particularly inspirational. It was fourteen years before Vettriano felt ready to show any of his work in public. In 1989 he offered two works to the Royal Scottish Academy's annual exhibition; both were accepted and sold on the first day. The following year, an equally enthusiastic reaction greeted the three paintings, which he entered for the prestigious Summer Exhibition at London's Royal Academy. In the last nine years, interest in, and desire for his work, has grown rapidly. There have been sell-out solo exhibitions in Edinburgh, London, Hong Kong and Johannesburg. In November 1999, Vettriano's work was shown for the first time in New York, when twenty paintings were displayed at The International 20th Century Arts Fair at The Armory. Fifty collectors from the UK flew out for the opening night of the Fair and all twenty paintings were sold out within an hour of the opening. In March 2000, BBC Scotland produced a half-hour documentary about Vettriano for their Arts Series EX-S; aired initially in Scotland only, the documentary is likely to be aired UK-wide later this year. Jack Vettriano prints had a major exhibition, Lovers and Other Strangers, was at the Portland Gallery in London in June 2000. After its London run, the exhibition transferred on loan to The Kirkcaldy Museum & Art Gallery in Fife. Attendance figures indicated that more people visited the Museum during the Vettriano exhibition than had done so in the whole of the previous year. A book about the artist was published to coincide with this exhibition.
The Singing Butler is Jack Vettriano's best selling print. Vettriano has made millions from this single image. His art deco style captures the public's imagination. Published by Pavilion Books, Lovers and Other Strangers features over 100 paintings selected from the work of the last ten years and biographical text by Anthony Quinn. In 2010 the new Jack Vettriano exhibition, Days of Wine and Roses, started in Kirkcaldy before transferring to London and Milan Jack Vettriano gifts In September 2001, Vettriano donated a painting to a charity auction, which was held at Sotheby's in aid of Help the Hospices.
Night in the City is one of the artist's sexy images, still available as a limited edition print. The painting, Beautiful Dreamer, was the second highest bid for Lot, making £25,000. UK Portland Gallery exhibited twenty- one paintings at artLONDON, an annual contemporary art fair, in May 2002. All twenty-one paintings were sold within the first hour of the opening night. Aside from his exhibitions, Vettriano has acquired a vast following through the posters and prints of his paintings that are distributed worldwide. This year the two best selling art posters in Britain are both Vettriano images.
Dance me to the End of Love and Dancer in Emerald are 2 of Vettriano's top selling posters at the moment. To date, more than 1,000,000 posters of Vettriano's paintings have sold worldwide A University spokesperson said, "It is a privilege for the University to honour one of Scotland's leading contemporary artists and a particular pleasure to do so because of the amount of time which Jack Vettriano has invested in helping the University's students fulfil some of their own artistic aspirations."
Vettriano's most recent work is the limited edition print Lunchtime Lovers published in June 2020. Lunchtime Lovers is in the artist's typical art deco / romantic style, featuring a lady and a man leaving a restaurant for a secret lunch date .
Lunchtime Lovers is the latest Jack Vettriano limited edition print , framed £650.00
300gsm Museum Etching paper
Signed and numbered by the artist
Edition size: 125 + 15 Artist’s Proofs
Certificate of Authenticity
Image Size 39 x 31 cm
Mount Size: 62 x 52 cm
Frame Size: 72 x 62 cm
One framed print in stock .
Please note that all framed prints will come framed with true colour acrylic.
Doune Castle was built in 1400 for the first Duke of Albany and provides the setting for Winterfell in Game of Thrones and Monty Python’s Holy Grail. Visit Doune Castle on a unique private tour of the Game of Thrones Castle in Scotland – Winterfell . Phone 07305-294773 for more details or contact us online .
Doune Castle Game of Thrones tour costs £180 for up to 4 passengers on a private tour from Edinburgh .
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Doune is one of the best preserved medieval castles in Scotland.
The Great Hall is 20 metres by 8 metres , and 12 metres high to its timber roof, again a 19th-century replacement.The hall has no fireplace, and was presumably heated by a central fire, and ventilated by means of a louvre like the one in the modern roof. No details of the original roof construction are known, however, and the restoration is conjectural.Large windows light the hall, and stairs lead down to the three cellars on ground level.
The hall is accessed from the courtyard via a stair up to a triangular lobby, which in turn links the hall and kitchens by means of two large serving hatches with elliptical arches, unusual for this period. The kitchen tower, virtually a tower house in its own right, is 17 metres (56 ft) by 8 metres (26 ft). The vaulted kitchen is on the hall level, above a cellar. One of the best-appointed castle kitchens in Scotland of its date, it has an oven and a 5.5-metre (18 ft) wide fireplace. A stair turret, added in 1581 and possibly replacing a timber stair, leads up from the lobby to two storeys of guest rooms. These include the “Royal Apartments”, a suite of two bedrooms plus an audience chamber, suitable for royal visitors.
Doune Castle has featured in several literary works, including the 17th-century ballad, “The Bonny Earl of Murray”, which relates the murder of James Stewart, 2nd Earl of Moray, by the Earl of Huntly, in 1592. In Sir Walter Scott’s first novel, Waverley (1814), the protagonist Edward Waverley is brought to Doune Castle by the Jacobites. Scott’s romantic novel describes the “gloomy yet picturesque structure”, with its “half-ruined turrets”.
The castle was used as a location in MGM’s 1952 historical film Ivanhoe which featured Robert Taylor and Elizabeth Taylor. The BBC adaptation of “Ivanhoe” in 1996 also featured Doune as a location. The castle was used as the set for Winterfell in the TV series Game of Thrones(2011–present), an adaptation of the A Song of Ice and Fire series of novels by George R. R. Martin. The castle was used as a stand-in for the fictional “Leoch Castle” in the TV adaption of the Outlander series of novels.
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Five castles tour
Our private group visits five castles used as film locations. This tour visits Doune Castle ( Winterfell in Game of Thrones and Castle Leoch ) , Midhope Castle ( Lallybroch ) , Linlithgow Palace (Wentworth Prison ) , Aberdour Castle and Blackness Castle
The Outlander TV series continues to be a smash hit in the UK and America . Five Scottish castles in particular feature heavily in the story lines – Midhope Castle ( Lallybroch ) , Doune Castle ( Castle Leoch ) , Linlithgow Palace (Wentworth Prison ) , Aberdour Castle ( Sainte Anne de Beaupré’s monastery ) and Blackness Castle ( Fort William army headquarters ) .
1 Midhope Castle – Lallybroch
Those seeking a glimpse of the ancestral home of Jamie Fraser won’t find the real Lallybroch deep in the Highlands.
Scenes were shot at Midhope Castle on the fringes of the Hopetoun Estate near South Queensferry.
Midhope was built in the 15th Century and was built by John Martyne, laird of Medhope. It was rebuilt in the mid 1600s and remains much the same today.
Visitors are asked to admire Midhope from a distance as the interior remains largely derelict.
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five castles tour Scotland . Visit five amazing Scottish castles – Midhope Castle ( Lallybroch ) , Doune Castle ( Castle Leoch ) , Linlithgow Palace (Wentworth Prison ) , Aberdour Castle and Blackness Castle ( Fort William army headquarters ) .
Midhope Castle – Lallybroch
Midhope was built in the 15th Century and was built by John Martyne, laird of Medhope. It was rebuilt in the mid 1600s and remains much the same today.
Visitors should admire Midhope from a distance as the interior remains largely derelict. Midhope Castle is the external location for fictional Lallybroch, the family home of Jamie Fraser , and it is located on the Hopetoun Estate . Midhope Castle dates back to the 15th Century and the exterior is intact but the castle is derelict inside .
Doune Castle – Castle Leoch
Dating to the 13th Century, Doune Castle near Stirling plays Castle Leoch, home to Colum MacKenzie and his clan.
It is in the 20th century episode when Claire and Frank Randall visit the castle on a day trip.
Once a Royal residence, Doune Castle was rebuilt by Robert Stewart, Duke of Albany in the late 14th Century.
Doune Castle tours , Doune featured in Monty Python , Game of Thrones , the Outlaw King and Outlander.
Doune has appeared several times on screen and was used in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. It was also the castle Winterfell in Game of Thrones.
Kelpies tours, visit the amazing 30 metre high Kelpies in Falkirk
Falkirk tours and transfers, visit the Kelpies and the Falkirk Wheel, two unique attractions connected by the Union Canal
Airport taxi transfers Falkirk offer a professional airport transfer service from Falkirk to Edinburgh Airport
Private tours Edinburgh offer a wide range of tours of Scotland’s castles , film locations and landscapes , visit Outlander , Monty Python and Outlander film locations
Lallybroch castle is the ancestral home of Outlander star Jamie fraser , real life Midhope Castle is just 25 minutes from Edinburgh
Doune Castle pictures , Doune featured in Monty Python , Game of Thrones and Outlander
Glentana Coaches – airport transfers from Edinburgh to Glasgow Airport
Outlander tours , tour the real film locations used in Outlander, including Lallybroch and Castle Leoch
