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Book review – The Great Horizon: 50 Tales of Exploration
Show a cat an empty box and the chances are, they’ll jump into it. Show a human a mountain and it’s quite probably they’ll feel the urge to climb it. That’s what’s at the heart of Jo Woolf’s excellent The Great Horizon – the need for mankind to get out there and explore. Over the…
Read MoreStunning views over Loch Tummel from an outstanding family home
A contemporary family home with stunning elevated views over Loch Tummel, close to The Queens View, has been brought to the market. Presented by Savills, Gannochy Lodge sits in a prime, elevated plot of about one acre in the hamlet of Strathtummel, near Pitlochry. The house was completed in 2012 and offers fantastic family accommodation…
Read MoreLovingly-designed Scottish tower house offers plenty of charm
A stunning property full of charm and features, based on a traditional late medieval Scottish tower house, has been brought to the market. Strutt and Parker present White Rose Tower in Kindeace, Invergordon, a truly unique property which has been lovingly created and designed. The attention to detail, craftsmanship and asymmetrical elevations are truly remarkable. In…
Read MoreFolk music CD was inspired by fruit pickers of the Clyde Valley
Fifty free copies of a social history in song are now available. The Fruits of their Labours album by Lanarkshire Songwriters is available to members of the public from Clyde and Avon Valley Landscape Partnership (CAVLP). The album was part of a wider project which included oral histories from families of former fruit growers and…
Read MoreA Master Distiller’s guide to Burns Night
With Christmas a distant memory and spring a long way off, the end of January isn’t a traditionally cheerful time unless you follow Scottish tradition and throw a party to rival Hogmanay on the 25th. Burns Night is a celebration of the great Robert Burns, national hero and Scotland’s most beloved poet, and a great…
Read MoreBenromach reveals plans to create a new warehouse to boost its output
A Scottish distillery is throwings its doors open to the public, to hear their views on its planned extension. Forres-based Benromach, owned by Gordon & Macphail, plans to build a new warehouse for whisky maturation to the west of the existing site. Ewen Mackintosh, managing director at Gordon & MacPhail, said: ‘We have been expanding…
Read MoreBook review: A Sea Monster’s Tale
Colin Speedie’s new book A Sea Monster’s Tale: In Search of the Basking Shark takes us from swashbuckling hunts of giant sharks by reckless individuals with makeshift harpoons, through an age of mass slaughter, to the author’s personal shark-tracking adventures. At up to eleven metres in length and seven tonnes in weight, this plankton-feeding fish…
Read MoreNew owners have big plans for Edinburgh’s iconic Caledonian Hotel
Edinburgh’s iconic Caledonian Hotel is under new ownership – and they are already planning major changes. Twenty14 Holdings has announced the acquisition of the captial’s historic great railway hotel, Waldorf Astoria Edinburgh – The Caledonian. Twenty14 Holdings, the hospitality investment arm of Lulu Group International, is working to create a legacy as the world’s leading…
Read MorePalatial elegance, majestic character and architectural heritage from the Playfair at Donaldson’s
An incredible opportunity has arisen to purchase a stunning home in one of the most iconic and majestic buildings in Edinburgh. Donaldson’s is set amidst 18 acres of elegant grounds and is dominated by the central Playfair Building: built in the 1840s and designed in the style of a Jacobean palace by world-famous Scottish architect…
Read MoreRaise a dram to Glasgow’s second National Whisky Festival this Saturday
The National Whisky Festival is returning to Glasgow this weekend. Run in partnership with Celtic Connections, this unique tasting festival blends the world of whisky with the best in Scottish culture: featuring makers of whisky-related crafts, home-ware and artwork, an impressive programme of live music and food from popular local haunts. This will take place…
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