- November 25, 2019The oddly shaped ‘inch’ is surely the strangest of the Firth of Forth islands. Its abbey (the Abbey of the…
- April 29, 2019First-time visitors to Edinburgh usually have in mind at least two essential sights: the castle and the palace. Holyrood –…
- February 15, 2019Though the first association with ‘Gleneagles’ is likely to be the golf course and hotel, there is in fact a…
- December 18, 2018Grace was the daughter of a Connacht chieftain. She provided the strongest opposition to foreign rule in the West of…
- July 3, 2016There are the remains of the third largest 13th century castle in Ireland: a quadrangular court with cylindrical angle-towers, a…
- March 14, 2016Gay sunlights o’er the hillocks creep And join for golden weather, - A scythe-sweep, and a scythe-sweep, We mow the…
- May 26, 2015Stirling is one of those regions central Scotland specialises in. it provides a taste of both lowlands and Highlands; has…
- January 12, 2015A short boat trip away from Ballycastle harbour is Rathlin Island, said in legend to have been dropped into the…
- 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, 2014Once one of the richest Abbeys in Southern Scotland, Kelso Abbey was built by the Tironensians, an order founded at…