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SCOTLAND, THE UK AND BEYOND
Prison turned tourist attraction has captive audience
A former prison which was converted into a museum has achieved its Five Star Visitor Attraction Quality Assurance (QA) award from VisitScotland. The former Victorian...
Ten of the finest follies to be found in Scotland
Decadent indulgences by people with more money than sense, or touching attempts to leave a lasting legacy other than wealth? Here we suggest 10 of...
10 alien invaders Scotland can do without
Scotland’s native wildlife is being attacked by ruthless foreign species that are hell-bent on world domination. A great many creatures that are part of the...
How Robert the Bruce gave the English a bruising
Rather than overcoming a far larger English force, a controversial theory says Robert the Bruce fought far from the accepted battlefield and won by a...
Review: 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,...
Travel 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...
Travel 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...
Fred 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...
In a Nutshell, Theo Creton: Cooking has its highs and lows, but you can’t buy the feeling of putting a smile on someone’s face’
Theo Creton, head chef of MARA Restaurant at Links House, Dornoch, on the most he's ever paid for a meal, his favourite cookbook and the...
Review: The Crab & Lobster Fish Shack
South Queensferry is probably the perfect place for a seafood restaurant, and so taking the short hop from Edinburgh to the Firth of Forth to...
Producer’s Corner: Anona Gow, Pitscandly Farm
When Anona Gow began her career as a lawyer, she never imagined that one day she’d swap the courtroom for running a deer farm in...
Historic Coleburn Distillery to be revived after 40 years
The historic Coleburn Distillery is set to be revived after 40 years of lying dormant. Located in the heart of Speyside, Coleburn is being brought...
