Next June I will be visiting Edinburgh & Glasgow w/ an elderly history buff. Any suggestions?

How about a castle tour?

http://www.celticcastles.com/castle-tours/?source=...

http://www.visitscotland.com/about/history/castles...

Or a night in a castle. Dalhousie is lovely and the restaurant is in the dungeon!

http://www.celticcastles.com/castles/dalhousie/

A visit to Hamilton.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton,_South_Lanar...

A trip north over the Forth Road Bridge to Gleneagles for a spectacular afternoon tea and some stunning scenery on the way.

http://www.gleneagles.com/

Some pretty historical towns in the area are Dunkeld and Birnam ("Macbeth shall never vanquish'd be until Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill shall come against him.')

http://www.dunkeldandbirnam.org.uk/

Rosslyn Chapel is about half an hour from Edinburgh.

http://www.rosslynchapel.org.uk/

Braemar and Pitlochry are pretty

http://braemarscotland.co.uk/

http://www.pitlochry.org/

There are plenty of good hotels in both cities and the best way to travel between them is by train. All public buildings in the UK have to be accessible to people with disabilities by law so not being in the best physical shape shouldn't be a problem.

Inside the cities, go by bus because it's all there is apart from taxis. Except in Glasgow, where there is a small underground railway line which might have its uses depending on where you want to go.

Most things historical are in Edinburgh and I would look into visiting Holyrood Palace and seeing the Royal Mile with Edinburgh Castle at one end. Don't be surprised at a big bang every day at 1 pm - they fire off a cannon at the castle at that time every day to mark the time! It's not a big city (Glasgow is bigger) so a few days is LOTS of time.

If you stay near the train station in Edinburgh, all the tour buses leave from right there. We did the hop on and off bus- it has the headphones with a couple of different narrations, and takes you to the Castle where you can get off and tour it, then get back on the bus. It's by far the easiest way to see Edinburgh. One of the narrations tells "ghost" stories while the other gives more history.