Author: podium

  • October 15, 2014
    Not far from the cathedral and with dramatic coastline views, St Andrews Castle is mainly in ruins, but the site…
  • October 15, 2014
    Rearing up from a steep hill like a jagged, broken tooth and visible for miles around is the shattered tower…
  • October 13, 2014
    Blantyre’s most famous son is David Livingstone, epitome of the Victorian missionary-explorer, who opened up central Africa to European religion.…
  • October 13, 2014
    Sir Lawrence Parsons, whose family was later ennobled as the Earls of Rosse, built this massive castle in the 1620s…
  • October 8, 2014
    ‘Switzerland in miniature’ is how the English writer William Thackeray described Glenariff in 1872. Of all the Antrim glens, this…
  • October 7, 2014
    Once one of the richest Abbeys in Southern Scotland, Kelso Abbey was built by the Tironensians, an order founded at…
  • October 7, 2014
    Between Coachford and Macroom and ancient bridge spans one of the loveliest reaches of the River Lee, and on a…
  • October 1, 2014
    A formidable fortress dominating the Sound of Mull. The seat of the Clan Maclean, this is one of the oldest…
  • October 1, 2014
    St Brendan the Navigator was born at Fenit, and from there he is said to have set sail for America…
  • September 30, 2014
    Jura lies off the coast of Argyll, long, dark and low like a vast Viking longship, its billowing sail the…