- February 16, 2020The Roman geographer Ptolemy in his first century AD map called it the ‘clean-cut cape’: Duncansby Head looks like…
- January 21, 2020Sheltered by the slopes of the Twelve Bens, this lakeside castle is a romantic, battlemented Gothic Revival fantasy. It…
- September 19, 2019Founded in 1169 by the Benedictines, Holy Cross was supposedly endowed with a splinter from the True Cross, hence…
August 18, 2019Fidra is one of a quartet of small volcanic rocks projecting from the Firth of Forth off the Lothian coast;…- May 17, 2019‘It’s a far cry to Loch Awe!’ The exact meaning of the old shout is in dispute, but it…
- April 29, 2019First-time visitors to Edinburgh usually have in mind at least two essential sights: the castle and the palace. Holyrood –…
- March 9, 2019Stirling Castle, and the town itself, played an important role in the 13th and 14th century Wars of Independence; near…
- January 11, 2019The Yarrow and the Ettrick waters meet just a mile or so south-west of the town of Selkirk, and at…
- December 27, 2018Built on the last squares of the alluvial plane which spread from the River Forth at Alloa, south of here,…
- December 6, 2018All of Iona’s religious buildings were erected during the Reformation. Nearly all of the ancient Celtic crosses were destroyed then…
