- January 28, 2016Anyone who’s belted a little white ball around a fairway will probably have heard of St Andrews. Apart from its…
- January 21, 2016Ardmore, with its smooth beach, its colour-washed cottages and green fields is the pleasantest of places. It was once an…
- January 17, 2016It may look innocuous on the map, but the capital Gulf of Corryvreckan – the 1km wide channel between the…
- January 13, 2016The Custom House, erected between the years 1781 and 1791, at a cost of £546,000, is the finest public building…
- January 10, 2016The ‘Bonny Banks’ and ‘Bonny Braes’ of Loch Lomond have long been Glasgow’s rural retreat – a scenic region of…
- January 6, 2016Groined by deep glens and walled along the west by the bare hilltops and the tufted moors, this rim of…
- January 4, 2016The remote Cowal Peninsula is cut off from the rest of the country by the lengthy fjords of Loch Long…
- December 30, 2015To see the landscape of Tuscany for the first time is like looking at the Old Masters; only they have…
- December 16, 2015A market town on the River Suir, long associated with the Butler family, later Earls of Ormond. A priory was…
- December 14, 2015The Easter Rising of 1916 was a curious event, tiny in comparison with the rebellion of 1798, for instance, with…