- February 11, 2016Mount Brandon, austere and impressive at all times, cloudy at most times, dominates Brandon Bay across whose waters the light…
- February 8, 2016Edinburgh’s Old Town stretches along a ridge to the east of the Castle, and tumbles down Victoria Street to the…
- January 31, 2016It was in the Mournes I learnt that there is no better way to know the nerve of a mountain…
- 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 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 4, 2016The remote Cowal Peninsula is cut off from the rest of the country by the lengthy fjords of Loch Long…
- 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…