Holiday Scotland

  Late in the evening of the 21st of August 1689 the drone of Clan Donald’s pipes could be heard lamenting across the craggy hills overlooking theTay, as slowly they and other exhausted Highlanders trudged north from the Cathedral City of Dunkeld. Below them was a town ablaze, with smoke rising into the night sky. [...]

Viking Scotland – Part Two: The King of the Isles It was the summer of 1158, and two rival navies faced each other across the Sea of the Hebrides; one led by Godred, King of Man, the other by his brother-in-law the upstart Somerled, Lord of Argyll. It was yet another clash between warlords in [...]

On the morning of the 16th of April 1746 two armies, from completely different worlds faced each other across the bleak, rain-battered Culloden Moor. On one side the redcoat regiments of the British government mustered and fell in; on the other a force of kilted Highlanders, armed with little more than their ancestors had faced [...]

  Rising from the hills far to the West, the river  Tweed snakes its way across the borders until it reaches the North Sea at Berwick upon Tweed. The Eastern reaches of the river, constituting the lower tweed valley, run from kelso to the coast and for the most part form the boundary between Scotland [...]

Fives miles east of Inverness, the windswept moorland of Culloden, saw the last great battle on British soil on April 16, 1746, a turning point in the history of the Scottish nation, when the Jacobite cause was finally defeated. The second Jacobite rebellion had begun on August 19, 1745, when the standard was raised at [...]