- July 10, 2015The 144th playing of The Open, golf’s oldest championship, will be played over the Old Course at St Andrews. One…
- June 23, 2015Skye’s most famous historic building is Dunvegan Castle, seat of the chief of Clan MacLeod. It has played host to…
- June 9, 2015If you think Scotland has no decent beaches, wait till you see the west coast of South Harris. The blinding…
- April 1, 2015Harris, to the south of Lewis, is the scenic jewel in the necklace of islands that comprise the Outer…
- January 11, 2015Jura lies off the coast of Argyll, long, dark and low like a vast Viking longship, its billowing sail the…
- October 29, 2014Shetland’s most impressive archaeological attraction. This large settlement, with buildings from Prehistory through Norse times to the 16th century, was…
- October 13, 2014Blantyre’s most famous son is David Livingstone, epitome of the Victorian missionary-explorer, who opened up central Africa to European religion.…
- October 1, 2014A formidable fortress dominating the Sound of Mull. The seat of the Clan Maclean, this is one of the oldest…
- September 24, 2014Gatehouse of Fleet is an attractive little town stretched along a sloping main street, in the middle of which sits…
- September 17, 2014The magnificent, red-sandstone ruins of Arbroath Abbey, founded in 1178 by King William the Lion, dominate the town centre. It…