Scotland Magazine

I love this time of year, when the weather cools, colours change (just look at the picture of Blair Castle above – read about one of its famous past residents on page 25!), with lots of excuses to curl up by the fireside with a good book. It’s also a

This year a British couple embarked on an expedition like no other, sailing from their home port of Yarmouth on England’s south coast to the far reaches of the Outer Hebrides, Orkney, and Shetland in search of Scotland’s wild horses and ponies. Profe

One of my favourite Highland villages, Plockton is a great place for a winter walk with an excellent pub (the Plockton Inn) to warm up in afterwards. You can simply walk through the village with the loch on your right and take the hill behind for gre

I was stationed in Scotland in the mid-sixties in a town close to Montrose. I am curious what happened to that town – I wonder if it closed after the base closed? I haven’t seen the town mentioned in any issue of Scotland magazine. I am 87 years youn

Looking at baronial Blair Castle, with all its medieval-style turrets and crenellations, standing spectacularly amid the greenery of Glen Garry, Perthshire, it seems obvious that the grand house is the kind of place that would have nurtured politicia

I’m sometimes amused to think just what a difference a few hundred years makes in Scotland. Of course it’s true that daring to travel at all in the Highlands would have been an act of folly before the 1700s, but entering Argyll and the west (the part

Barony Mill stands in the northwest corner of Orkney Mainland, near a picturesque headland in the parish of Birsay. The mill has been an integral part of Orkney’s milling heritage since opening in 1873. Here, a unique and ancient form of barley is mi

Prestonfield House, an award-winning five-star hotel just moments from the bustling city of Edinburgh, is offering one lucky reader and their guest the chance to win a two-night B&B stay, with dinner for two on one of the evenings at the phenomenal R

For me the best way to arrive at Kilmartin is from the south, from Lochgilphead. In this way you get the best possible sense of the wonderful tapestry of land and water into which Kilmartin is beautifully woven. I think I love those miles between Loc

Castles don’t come much more picturesque than Crathes, but beneath the beauty lie tragic stories of ghostly figures. The most famous is the Green Lady, spotted by many people over the years, including Queen Victoria. The ghostly figure appears either

The Aurora Borealis, or the ‘Mirrie Dancers’ as Shetlanders call them due to the shimmering effect of their light, are best seen during the long, dark nights of winter. At Kinloch Lodge (see page 43) on Skye, a special winter offer of three nights fo

Glasgow has reinvented itself throughout history. It is arguably, alongside London, the only British city that has retained its central importance in the nation’s affairs since the Middle Ages. Then, it was the seat of Scotland’s second archbishopric

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The years from 1290 to 1371 witnessed a tumultuous tussle for Scotland’s throne between two distinct branches of the same extended family. From the first interregnum, known as the Great Cause, to the demise of the House of Bruce, which opened the doo

The low-lying, gently rolling farmland of Easter Ross is so classically bucolic – and so strikingly different to the drama that many of us associate with the Highlands – that you’d be forgiven for wondering if you’d accidentally turned south at Inver

This year marks the 350th anniversary of the birth of George Wade (1673–1748), an Anglo-Irish soldier who made his name in the English army yet left his legacy in Scotland by building the country’s first road network. After joining the army as a teen

Now until 14 January 2024 TARTAN, V&A DUNDEE This exhibition celebrates the global story of tartan and its rich and complex history. vam.ac.uk/dundee/exhibitions/tartan 24 November 2023 – 3 January 2024 CASTLE OF LIGHT, EDINBURGH Prepare to see the c

My memories of Hogmanay or the Bells, as we called it growing up, are truly special. Hogmanay in Scotland is a serious business, so much so that it is the only part of the UK that sees it as a national holiday, and it was a national holiday in Scotla

My new book is the true story of the experiences my wife and I had after moving to a croft in a small, remote village on Scotland’s west coast. The characters that we met on our adventure were so vivid that I felt it was something that deserved to be