Holiday Scotland

  The Isle of skye is a great place to visit – and with a car you can do a great loop around the island taking in all the amazing scenery and learning about its celtic heritage. The tour starts in Kyleakin at the southeastern corner of the island, which is accessed by coming over the [...]

Once upon a time (as all good stories begin) a small island of the wet and windswept northwest coast of Europe ruled the world; well, maybe not the whole world, but a fair chunk of it: and on that island a grimy city pumped the lifeblood of that empire: when Britannia ‘ruled the waves’ it [...]

  The jewel in the starry crown of Argyll is the picturesque town of Oban, sitting on the dark blue waters of the Firth of Lorn overlooking the Islands of Mull, Kerrera and Lismore. The name derives from the Gaelic language: An t-Òban, which means the Little Bay; (correctly: An t-Òban Latharnach the ‘Little Bay [...]

  The Tweed has to be one of the most beautiful rivers in Scotland, weaving through the rolling hills of the Border Country as it makes its inevitable way to the North Sea at Berwick. It is a landscape famed for its fishing, textiles, rugby and a colourful history of Border Reivers and monastic settlement. [...]

If you are looking for something to do in Scotland that combines not only fun, but some great history and stories of our bloody past, then should look no further than a visit to one or two of our many castles; from rambling ruins to stately homes they’re a great window on the past. Many, [...]

  Photographers the world over know about Scotland and the wild open spaces of the Highlands and Islands. They may not have been here, but they’ve seen glimpses of its mountains, swirling mist, rivers and glens in magazines , blogs and other media and committed them to memory. If the Highlands where a movie star [...]

The City of Dundee, on the northern banks of the Firth of Tay is often passed-over as a place to visit and enjoy, by both home-grown and overseas visitors alike; drawing a bad press from the former and a generally ignored by the latter. Yet, looking beyond its less glamorous architecture, and a dodgy ‘80s [...]