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I return every year to this archipelago that always delivers (opens the original)
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I RETURN to Orkney at least once a year and often get asked if I still find anything I’ve not seen before and anything new. The answer on both counts is a resounding yes, as you’ll soon savour as I share with you the delights of Orkney Mainland beyond those epic Heart of Neolithic Orkney sites and the famous whisky distilleries. On my first morning back in Kirkwall, I found myself on a journey, not in the literal sense, but more a spiritual one guided by a Glaswegian who loves Orkney so much tha
While some Scottish islands struggle, this isle 'soars on' (opens the original)
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While some Scottish islands struggle, the Isle of Arran soars on as a life-affirming outlier. It is an oasis that busies year round, reassuringly not a confection just for tourists, but simultaneously also brilliantly set up for visitors. At the heart of Arran’s success is a dramatic, consistent dynamism that invites repeat visits. I’m arriving on the ferry – yes, CalMac finally seem to have those sorted out on the Arran routes – for what is well over my fiftieth time. Arran is personal for me:
Why Tilda Swinton chose Nairn over Hollywood (opens the original)
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Although famous the world over for its golf, Nairn has been a tourist destination since Victorian days. Unlike many of its peers from that era, however, it’s still thriving – a town bursting with energy and attractions, writes Robin McKelvie ‘Are you playing golf?” is the first thing my neighbour asks when I say I’m going to Nairn. Over the years this grand Victorian seaside resort has become synonymous with golf, which tends to overshadow its other delights. They prove manifest. And indeed mult
The Scottish town you're probably overlooking and really shouldn't (opens the original)
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Controversy over Falkirk FC’s synthetic playing surface may have rumbled on into this season, but there is nothing artificial about what for me is one of Scotland’s most authentic and underrated towns. Falkirk doubters stick with me here but look beyond the post-industrial detritus and the high rises you see from the train and a very different Falkirk emerges. It doesn’t help Falkirk that their biggest musical gift to the world, Arab Strap, are notoriously, gloriously downbeat. Push past that an
Inside the historic Loch Lomond estate opening its doors to the public (opens the original)
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‘IT’S a modern working estate, but one where it often feels like time stands still,” smiles Barry Cairns, captain of Beau Jangles, the luxury cruiser eking us closer to Rossdhu House. The grand old ancestral home of the Colquhoun clan first emerged on the bonnie banks of Loch Lomond as the gun smoke of Culloden was just clearing in 1773. Today it has been reinvented as the gleaming clubhouse of Loch Lomond Golf Club. Very Luss Estates. The Colquhoun clan goes back around Luss – since 1358, in fa
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