This is a pretty village with great history. It is located in Inverness-shire and is a good stop on any tours of Scotland. The Castle of the Comyns is especially interesting. The unusual form of the motte suggests its origins may pre-date the 11th century date when a...
This is a real hidden gem on any tours of Scotland. Kingshouse is a hamlet in the Stirling area and sits at the head of Loch Lubnaig. Nearby is Balquidder which is the burial place of the famous Rob Roy MacGregor. Rob Roy was a famous Scottish outlaw...
This village sits on a peninsula between Loch Torridon and Loch Kishorn. It is a nice place to visit on any tours of Scotland. Applecross is, without doubt, a place of great scenic beauty. It is uniquely situated and the views will impress you. In 671 an Irish monk...
The Roman geographer Ptolemy in his first century AD map called it the ‘clean-cut cape’: Duncansby Head looks like a piece from a giant jigsaw puzzle. The sandstone cliffs drop more than 200 feet into the sea, and the grass grows all the way to...
In all Scottish place names, the prefix ‘inver’ signifies the mouth of a river; near here the River Tote opens out into the Sound of Raasay. You won’t see it from the road, but all up and down the East Trotternish coast sills of basalt...
‘Wi’ isquebae, we’ll face the devil. Burn’s line is touchily ambiguous (strange how the expression evolved as Dutch and not Scotch courage). The name whisky derives from uisge-beatha, meaning in Gaelic the water of life. When it was first drunk is not clear, but there is a record...
Loch Moidart runs into the sea via two channels, north and south, and in the latter a rocky mound projects from a sand spit into the loch, becoming and island at high tide. It supports Castle Tioram, or Tirrim, (‘the dry castle’) but those who...
The famous massacre of the ‘glen of weeping’ was carried out by a gang of 128 soldiers led by Campbell of Glenlyon; his victims were the Macdonalds of Glencoe, whose chief had delayed signing the oath of allegiance, required of all Highland chiefs, to William...
The longest and loveliest of the Angus Glens stretches north from Kirriemuir for 20 miles, broad and pastoral in its lower reaches but growing narrower and craggier as the steep, heather-clad Highland hills close in around its head. Jock’s Road is an ancient footpath that was...
The country’s historical roots are deeply embedded in the sandy soils of Central Scotland. Significant ruins and castles that chronicle the region’s charismatic history pepper the landscape. Key battlegrounds shaped the country’s fortunes around Stirling, and Perth is the former capital where kings were crowned...