March - April 2022

Scotland Magazine

Celebrating Scotland across the world

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Editor Sally Coffey Assistant Editor Henrietta Easton Consultant Editor Roddy Martine Art Editor Clare White PR Requests pr@chelseamagazines.com Contact Stacy Knoud stacy@contactpublicity.co.uk Chairman Paul Dobson Managing Director James Dobson Publ
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Editor’s Letter
Spring is in the air and it always makes me want to get out and about more, exploring our fine country, and I’m lucky to have plenty of inspiration at my fingertips thanks to the wonderful travel articles in this issue. By the time you read this, I w
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Clan Courier
[ATTRACTIONS] This spring and summer, you can visit some of Scotland’s most beautiful gardens as they hold special open days through the charity-run Scotland Garden Scheme. There are around 40 castles and stately homes with gardens to choose from, su
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Dates For Your Diary
26-29 May 2022 ORKNEY FOLK FESTIVAL, ORKNEY Stromness comes alive once again in a lively celebration of folk music. orkneyfolkfestival.com 27 May to 4 June 2022 THE ISLAY FESTIVAL, ISLAY No longer a virtual event, visitors flock to the Whisky Isle to
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Notes From The Isles
I shall treasure Christmas 2021 for the rest of my life. My daughter Mary and I left here at 5am on 23 December to catch the ferry from Uig, on Skye, to our family base in the Outer Hebrides, for four days of phenomenal joy. There were 24 of us: eigh
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We’ve Got Mail
This Burns Night I had haggis and a wee dram to celebrate the bard, which reminded me of growing up in a village close to the Scottish border in Northumberland. We had a scout troop, and one summer our camp was in Moffat across the border. One night
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Get Your Kicks On Kintyre 66
How do you fancy a road trip with Paul McCartney, an adventure alive with big skies, sweeping beaches, award-winning whisky distilleries, remarkable local produce and Scotland’s oldest purpose-built cinema? Welcome to the Kintyre 66, Scotland’s newes
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Gentry does It
It’s all very nice admiring the grandeur and workmanship that went into designing and building some of Scotland’s most impressive buildings, but sometimes looking is not enough, we want to experience the houses and grounds in all their glory. After a
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Mary’s Secret Code
Mary, Queen of Scots is one of Scotland’s most enduring historical figures. The appetite for tales of her fated life in print and on screen remains voracious. As Dr Steven Reid, Senior Lecturer in Scottish History at the University of Glasgow, puts i
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WIN A Great British Holiday
Prize can be taken any time before June 2023 Would you like the chance to stay in five-star luxury in London, taking in the capital’s most famous sights? How about a trip to the quaint villages and rolling hills of the Cotswolds? Or even a visit to E
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HIDE & SEEK
Creating leather products has been a tradition in Scotland for centuries, where leather has been manufactured to meet home demand as well as a large export trade. Edinburgh has always been at the heart of leather manufacture in Scotland, where its ta
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Historic Streets ROSE STREET
Hidden behind Princes Street in Edinburgh’s city centre, Scotland’s ‘Amber Mile’ has a deep and winding history. Home to many bars (and bar brawls pre-Covid), Rose Street has long been a haunting ground of poets, punters, and even princes, all lookin
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The Rum Life
On the Inner Hebridean outpost of Rum, its Cuillin mountains soar up improbably from the Atlantic, leviathans matching the grandeur of their namesakes just across the water on Skye. Rum is not a mini Skye, though. The isle forges its own path untramm
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ART for All
Spread across two floors, the elegant Scottish Gallery on Edinburgh’s Dundas Street, just a short walk from affluent Heriot Row, has been showcasing work from Scottish artists since 1842, making it the oldest continually running commercial gallery in
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La Belle Rebelle
Enter the term ‘Jacobite heroine’ into any internet search engine and the name ‘Flora MacDonald’ will pop up. While Flora undoubtedly played a vital part in the escape of Prince Charles Edward Stuart – aka ‘Bonnie Prince Charlie’ – to France after th
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Out Of This WORLD
Scotland is a place of infinite beauty, where ancient man-made sites meet stunning city architecture, and natural landscapes have Scotland’s story carved into their glens and rock faces. It’s not gone unnoticed: for a relatively small nation, Scotlan
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The Battle of Littleferry
The Battle of Culloden on 16 April 1746 ended the Jacobite hopes of placing Queen Anne’s Catholic half-brother James Francis Edward Stuart on the British throne in place of King George II of Hanover. The battle took place on a cold day with intermitt
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The Great Glen Way
Back in 2015, my wife Gillian and I accomplished our first long-distance hike, when we walked from Milngavie to Fort William along the West Highland Way. Although we have done a great deal of walking in the Scottish countryside in the years since, we
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The Story Behind…
The name George Heriot may sound familiar, even if you’re not au fait with 16th and 17th-century Scottish history. It’s the name of what is arguably Edinburgh’s most prestigious school, which stands just south of the city’s Old Town and which some sa

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