Travel
Travel Review: A Weekend at Hilton Molino Stucky Venice
Getting to Venice Flying from Edinburgh to Venice is not as easy as it would seem as finding direct flights are few and far between. So, instead of turning a three hour flight into seven or eight, I took an Avanti West Coast train First Class from Edinburgh to Birmingham to catch a direct Jet2…
Read MoreReview: The Hari Afternoon Tea & London Tea Friends Summer Festival
Summertime in Auld Reekie can feel a lot more hectic than The Big Smoke. So, instead of breaking to London for the hustle and bustle, I escaped for a tranquil weekend of sipping tea in the big city. As the heat picked up this summer and many switched from hot to cold drinks, I was…
Read MoreTravel Review, Knipoch Hotel: ‘A visit to Knipoch is like taking a deep, restorative breath of crisp, cleansing Highland air’
I knew that Shakespeare’s singular Scottish play, Macbeth, was set in Scotland, of course, but I had no idea that the murder that inspired it supposedly happened in the dining room of the Knipoch Hotel, a cosy little bolthole just three miles outside Oban, writes Eilidh Tuckett. No, this isn’t a Highland edition of Cluedo,…
Read MoreTravel Review: Seaton House, St Andrews
Visitors flock to St Andrews for different reasons, whether it be to play rounds of gold on the town’s historic championship courses, visit the third-oldest university in the English-speaking world, shop its many local boutiques, or go on a history-walking tour of the ancient ruined cathedral in the former ecclesiastical capital of Scotland. Whatever the…
Read MoreFred Olsen: Scotland, Scilly Isles & The West Country 10 Night Cruise
At the ripe old age of 33, I packed my bags, hopped on the 30-minute train from Haymarket to Rosyth and into the waiting taxi on my way to the terminal where I would embark on my very first cruise. To be frank, I didn’t think I would be enjoying the luxuries of a cruise…
Read MoreGalgorm Resort is the perfect place for a luxury spa break in Northern Ireland
There are spa breaks, and there are spa breaks. But when I agreed to travel to Northern Ireland to visit Galgorm Resort I was fairly confident that it would fall into the latter category, and thankfully I wasn’t disappointed. Galgorm is around a 30-minute drive from Belfast and the hotel can provide a private transfer…
Read MoreMarine Troon Hotel: ‘A relaxed sense of luxury and you don’t need to like golf to love this hotel’
Marooned just steps away from the golden sands of Troon beach lies the sandstone monolith that is the Marine Troon Hotel. Golf fans may be familiar with the commanding view of the red-brick façade, as it presides over the 18th fairway of Royal Troon’s Old Course, the host of the Open Championship last year. Formerly…
Read MoreThe slow staycation: How to take a tranquil city break in London
London, a famously frenetic city, might seem like an odd choice for a relaxing break, but it all depends on how you do it. Eilidh Tuckett headed down to the city for a slow staycation. It’s not often that the sun splits the sky in Glasgow, but on this particular morning, it was. The…
Read MoreReview: Pestana Royal Hotel, Madeira
I had never really considered Madeira for a holiday break until it came up through my online flight search: ‘Destination – anywhere, budget – under £150 and direct from Scotland’. Many of the European cities appeared but I was looking for something new and if possible some early season sun. Madeira? It ticked all the…
Read MoreReview: Hotel du Vin, Newcastle
Alister Tenneb enjoyed a weekend get-a-way at the glamorous Hotel du Vin in the bustling city of Newcastle. Less than a three hour drive from Scotland’s central belt Newcastle is an excellent weekend break destination for those heading south of the border. Perhaps it’s the city’s relative isolation from other large ones that gives…
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