- July 6, 2016North of Duns, the low-lying Lammermuir Hills, with their extensive grouse moors, rolling farmland and wooded valleys, run east to…
- July 3, 2016There are the remains of the third largest 13th century castle in Ireland: a quadrangular court with cylindrical angle-towers, a…
- May 19, 2016Leaving the Causeway, turn inland to Bushmills, noted for the “Old Bushmills” Whiskey Distillery. This had a license to distil…
- April 21, 2016County Kerry, with Killarney and its lakes, contains the most celebrated, and consequently the most visited attractions in Ireland; the…
- April 17, 2016The Isle Of Skye (an t-Eilean Sgiathanach in Gaelic) takes its name from the old Norse sky-a meaning “cloud island”,…
- April 6, 2016Quintessential Highland country such as this, marked by single-tracked roads, breath-taking emptiness and a wild, fragile beauty, is a rarity…
- March 31, 2016Floating off Scotland’s remote northeast coast, the Orkney and Shetland Islands are captivating archipelagos forming an antithesis to modern urban…
- March 23, 2016O’Connell Bridge, named after the founder of Irish nationalism, Dan O’Connell, the Liberator (who’s statue by Foley, appears on the…
- February 29, 2016As Edinburgh expanded in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, many old tenements were demolished and new bridges were…
- February 14, 2016Glasgow is regenerating and evolving at a dizzying pace – style cats beware, this city is edgy, modish and downright…