Scotland Travel Ideas
The shop windows are glowing brightly on Glasgow’s Sauchiehall Street this cold pre-Christmas afternoon and upstairs in the Willow Tea Rooms the panes of glass display swirling black lines that form a rose design. It’s not quite Art Nouveau, it’s definitely inspired by the Arts and Crafts movement, and it […]
The Isle of Islay, off the west coast of the United Kingdom, is synonymous with Scotch whisky of the fine single malt variety, and when I visited recently I was on a mission to visit all eight of the famous Islay distilleries (and the one on Jura) and taste the […]
Skye is the largest of the Western Isles in Scotland and with only two-and-a-half days to explore this was always going to be an intial impression to be followed up at a later date with some proper exploring. Skye is only about 50 miles across but with a coastline slashed […]
Our long weekend in Scotland began with a sun-drenched breakfast in the garden and progressed to a hiking and cycling sunshine extravaganza at Loch Katrine, with a few wee drams of single malt whisky thrown in for good measure. “The wanderer’s eye could barely vie The summer heaven’s delicious blue; […]