Glenbuchat, nestled in the scenic Strathdon area of Aberdeenshire, is a captivating glen brimming with history, breathtaking landscapes, and vibrant wildlife. A stop at Glenbuchat is a must for anyone exploring Scotland’s rugged beauty and cultural heritage. One of the glen’s iconic highlights is Glenbuchat Castle,...
Once a major fishing village, Largo is now a delightful stop on any tour of Scotland, offering picturesque scenery and a glimpse into Scotland’s past. The village is filled with quaint cottages and historic houses, providing a charming backdrop for a leisurely stroll. Its lovely harbour...
The sands of Cullen Bay are pitted with lost golf balls, for this eighteen-hole course is laid out on the raised bench between Cullen and Portknockie. The passage of glaciers in Scotland during the Ice Age contributed greatly to the present appearance of the landscape:...
This is a most beautiful village in Fife, and well worth seeing on any tours of Scotland. It is the most complete 17th/18th century village in Scotland. It has so much to see including stunning little houses along cobbled streets. These are 17th century in origin. The streets have appeared many...
The infamous Corryvreckan whirlpool is brew whipped up between the isles of Jura and Scarba, where the westward stream running through the Gulf of Corryvreckan into the Atlantic meets the eastward-running eddy over rough ground. In rough weather it is deadly, in calm weather merely...
The oddly shaped ‘inch’ is surely the strangest of the Firth of Forth islands. Its abbey (the Abbey of the Inch of Saint Columba) was out of gratitude to a hermit who had offered him shelter during a stormy passage on the Forth. It consists...
In Walter Scott’s novel Rob Roy, Andrew Fairservice, the loquacious gardener, refers to the kingdom of Fife as ‘just like a great combined city – Sae mony royal boroughs yoken on end to end… Kirkcaldy, the sell o’t, is langer than ony town in England.’...
Glenmore or Glen of Albyn or Glen Mor nan Albyn or just the Great Glen; whatever you chose to call it, is the result of a geological fault 420 million years ago which split the country in two. It contains Loch Ness, Oich, and Lochy,...
Not, as the name might suggest, situated in the island of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, but in Knapdale, Loch Stornoway is barely deserving of the title of loch at all. It is little more than a sandy bay on the west of the tongue...
The Cairngorms are not the preserve of skilled and well-equipped mountaineers; apart from the ski routes with their merciful chairlifts, they contain many paths for the adventurous walker. To reach Loch Avon, a narrow trench of water bulldozed into shape by an Ice Age glacier...