July - August 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 Group Sales Director Catherine Chapman Business Development Elizabeth Kenyon Advertising Manager Daisy We
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Dunfermline Crowned City
One of Scotland’s ancient capitals, Dunfermline in Fife, has been named Scotland’s eighth city. The news comes as part of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations in which Her Majesty announced the creation of eight new cities across the UK and its
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An Editor Writes
What could be a better travel companion to your adventures around Scotland (apart from Scotland magazine, of course), than this travel guidebook by none other than our very own editor? Moon Scotland, published in July 2022, is a 560-page guide to Sco
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High Praise In The Highlands
A restaurant with rooms in Ullapool in the northwest Highlands is celebrating after being awarded a Five Gold Star standard awarded by AA Hospitality – the highest accolade for such establishments, which denotes “luxurious accommodation and public ar
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A Queen’s Casket
A silver casket, believed to have belonged to Mary, Queen of Scots, has been bought by the National Museums Scotland. The silver casket, made in Paris between 1493 and 1510, is a rare work of French silver, and has been beautifully preserved for more
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Notes From The Isles
In my last column, I mentioned my grandchildren’s ‘Doug Run’, in memory of their grandfather. It has now taken place, with great success. One granddaughter, Nelly, was unfortunately unable to join us, so there were only seven contestants on the day.
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Editor’s Letter
This issue I got to wax lyrical about one of my favourite places in the world: Edinburgh. I could have written three times as much (and I almost did) but whether you’re able to make it to the capital for festival month in August, or you are planning
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We’ve Got Mail
We were at Ballindalloch Castle [our cover star in issue 121, May 2022 – Ed] on our fourth of five visits to Scotland, when the lady of the manor drove up and we had a delightful conversation. She was most friendly. I would add that we went to Scotla
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A Tale of Two Cities
For a compact city, Edinburgh packs a big punch. There’s no doubt it’s Scotland’s most handsome city – with the medieval street plan and Reformation-era buildings of the Old Town on one side of Princes Street Gardens, and the neoclassical squares and
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The Grassmarket
Historic Streets Edinburgh’s Grassmarket takes its name from time served as a storage area for the grass and pens of animals brought to be traded at the market. It was one of the most significant marketplaces of its day, not only for the livestock tr
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IN THE Pink
An exemplary example of a Scottish baronial building, with five towers, dozens of turrets and a flushed-pink façade, Fyvie is the epitome of a fairytale castle. Located in the heart of Aberdeenshire’s ‘Castle Trail’ you might think that this 800-year
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Travels With Tom
St Columba’s 1,500th birthday was another celebration dampened by Covid last year, however, you can still visit his island monastery on the magical Isle of Iona. As Samuel Johnson put it in 1773: “That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism wou
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Ringing The Changes
Ahoy Ahoy’ or ‘Ahoy-hoy’ were reputedly the words Alexander Graham Bell preferred to use to answer the telephone. Bell was, of course, the Scottish-born inventor credited with the patent for the first commercial version and yet it was another invento
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Carle, Now The King’s Come!
Picardy Place sits at the head of Leith Walk, the great thoroughfare linking Edinburgh’s port with the city centre. Two hundred years ago, on 15 August 1822, there was a temporary archway here, symbolising entry to the City of Edinburgh. A party of i
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Summer In The Shielings
Over the years many people have taken an interest in the Duchess of Bedford’s huts in Glen Feshie, including Queen Victoria who visited them twice. Many have also asked why the duchess spent so much of her time in Scotland between the 1830s and her d
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The Kilted CHEF
Craig Wilson, AKA The Kilted Chef, has made quite a name for himself throughout his culinary career. Starting out as a trainee chef aged just 16 at the Strathburn Hotel in Inverurie, near where he grew up, Craig soon moved on to work at the Ballathie
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THE ROAD Dance
When watching The Road Dance for the first time, you get a strong feeling you know which way the story is going to go. With the theme of war running throughout, in this case The Great War, which ravaged small communities such as the one depicted in t
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Presenting The Past
If there is one core interest that readers of Scotland magazine share, it is a passion for the country they love, and it was this same passion that inspired a group of the Scottish Enlightenment’s greatest names to create a society in 1780 that was i
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Dates For Your Diary
3 September 2022 The Braemar Gathering is traditionally attended by members of the Royal Family, making it the most famous games in the world. braemargathering.org 4 September 2022 Enjoy a day of dancing, piping, track and field and heavyweight event
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The Story Behind…
My research tends to start with the ‘huh!’ moment; the moment I think, why didn’t I know about that? It was the Darien Expedition that triggered my research for The Vanished Days. The expedition was an unsuccessful attempt by Scotland to establish a
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HEAVEN In The Hebrides
All my life it has saddened and frustrated me that pilgrims visit the Isle of Iona and leave again, a matter of hours later, having experienced little more than what I affectionately like to call the ‘Vatican City’ of the island. By that I mean the A
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In the RIGHT HANDS
The sword is surprisingly light – 936g to be precise – with a wafer-thin blade and a delicate and intricate silver basket hilt. “There is a myth that swords were crude, heavy things but it’s not true at all,” explains master sword-maker Paul Macdonal
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Tighnabruaich
Just an hour’s drive west of Glasgow and sitting on the shores of the Kyles of Bute, in full view of the Isle of Bute, Tighnabruaich, is about as lovely a little village as you could hope to find. It’s so lovely that the PS Waverley, the last sea-goi
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Castle On The Market Again
A Scottish castle nicknamed the ‘Castle of Spite’ after it was built by a widow following a family row over her late husband’s will, is back on the market. Despite an o er for Carbisdale Castle in Sutherland being accepted last year, the sale has si
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Reston Station Reopens
A train station has reopened in the Scottish Borders after remaining closed for more than 50 years, making it easier to visit this quiet corner of Scotland. On 23 May, Reston, a village that lies five miles inland of Eyemouth on the Berwickshire coas

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