Outdoor Scotland
The Best of 2017…
David picks his top highlights of a year on Scotland’s history trail Perhaps in unconscious defiance of the travails of 2017 I made sure to spend the year checking […]
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Culture
Jay Is For January
Our nature expert Jim Crumley encounters a jay, or, as the colourful bird is described in Gaelic, a “sgreuchag-choille” – screamer of the woods One of those half-dark-at-noon January […]
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Glasgow’s Mitchell Library
Head away from the city centre to browse a library with a fascinating history… The Mitchell Library is one of Glasgow’s most recognisable buildings. Situated in North Street above […]
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Floors Castle
Pay a visit to Scotland’s largest inhabited castle! Floors Castle, on the outskirts of Kelso, has been the seat of the Duke of Roxburghe, since the 1720s. John, Earl […]
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Historic Sites of Southern Scotland
Neil Robertson steps off the beaten track to explore the overlooked castles and towers of the south Summer madness has subsided and all in Scotland’s tourism industry are taking […]
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A Castle Cluster in Northern Aberdeenshire
David Weinczok explores the northern castles of Boyne, Fordyce and Findlater Almost every time I’ve been to Moray it’s been raining – so much, in my case at least, […]
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Outlander Locations – The South
From Lallybroch to l’Hôpital des Anges, Patricia Cuni discovers the Outlander locations in Southern Scotland There are thousands of excuses to go on an exploring weekend anywhere in Scotland, […]
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Striding Arches
A special sculpture in the Southern Uplands October’s Focus is on the Splendour of the South-West, with nine pages of the best things to see and do in Dumfries […]
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The Ultimate Outlander Challenge
The Scotlanders race against time to find as many Outlander filming locations as possible in 36 hours! Outlander’s Season 3 has finally returned to our screens, and for captivated […]
