March - April 2024

Scotland Magazine

Celebrating Scotland across the world

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Editor Sally Coffey Assistant Editor Henrietta Easton Art Editor Clare White Group Sales Director Catherine Chapman Advertising Manager Daisy Welch Senior Sales Executive George Wilson Managing Director James Dobson Publisher Simon Temlett Chief Fina
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Editor’s Letter
This issue I’ve been mostly dreaming of some of my favourite places on earth: the Scottish Isles. From Orkney to Skye to Lewis and Harris, I love each and every one of the places listed in our bucket-list of destinations, and you can start daydreamin
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Clan Courier
It might come as a surprise to some that Loch Ness and its surrounds, which includes the largely untapped wilderness of Glen Affric, (widely considered to be one of Scotland’s most beautiful glens) is not yet a national park. However, after the Scott
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Editor’s Diary
Following the reopening of some of Scotland’s favourite hotels (Kylesku and the Plockton Inn, to name a couple) under this newly created hotel group, another two venues are in line to get the Highland Coast Hotels treatment: The Haven in Plockton and
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Notes From The Isles
Having just returned from Cronie’s and my morning walk, I’ve been standing on our terrace under a perfect azure sky, gazing across the mirror-calm Beauly Firth. Away in the distance our nearest Munro, Ben Wyvis, Glas Leathad Mor, 3432 feet high, know
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We’ve Got Mail
My husband and I have had the pleasure of visiting Scotland on several occasions and love the stories and features in Scotland magazine. We’ve always found the people of your country to be friendly, helpful, and wonderful conversationalists. But noth
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Island Escapes
Few places elicit such a sense of longing as the myriad Scottish islands. From the Western Isles to the Inner Hebrides and the Northern Isles, Scotland has been spoiled with sea-enclosed parcels of land that have yielded unique communities and which
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Come to Canna
Sitting at a table outside Café Canna, I hear the clattering of cutlery as merry day-trippers tuck into plates piled high with foraged seaweed salad and freshly landed langoustines and crabs. I see sail yachts bobbing on the moorings in the bay and t
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SAVOUR Shetland
Shetland mussels and Shetland lamb have long been considered a mark of quality, with shipments regularly leaving here, destined for the kitchens of some of London’s finest restaurants. For a long time, with the focus solely on export, both residents
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Roasted Monkfish Tail With Stuffing
Here is a great recipe with robust flavours for this splendid fish which is caught in abundance around Shetland. Monkfish is a high-value fish and is landed throughout the year. It is prized for the firmness of its flesh and its ability to absorb str
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Win A Stay In A Luxury Sea-view Hotel
Crinan is a tiny village on the west coast of Scotland with an island-like quality, that sits at the end of a little road and bravely faces the Atlantic Ocean. Here you will find the Crinan Hotel, tucked safely into the land looking out to the island
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Earning Your Tartan Stripes
It’s hard to imagine a shortbread tin without tartan patterns, and a kilt without tartan is surely just a skirt. So how did tartan come about and what are the rules that govern it? Some more cynical visitors may fear that tartan is entirely a modern
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Not So Prim And Proper
There can’t be many students who have had to leave Oxford University because they owned a racehorse, but Archibald Primrose (1847-1929), who became 5th Earl of Rosebery and 1st Earl of Midlothian, was given that choice in 1868 – sell the horse, named
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KING Of The CASTLE
As the Allies celebrated VE Day in May 1945, one Scottish aristocrat, the 5th Marquess of Ailsa, showed his gratitude to one of the military’s most renowned leaders in remarkable fashion. The Marquess and his family, the Kennedys, gifted their home a
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The Renaissance Kings
The 15th century witnessed the dawning of the Renaissance, which swept across Europe, breaking light into the darkest crevasses of the Middle Ages. It was an irreversible period of enlightenment as Greek and Roman ideologies were rediscovered, revolu
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Unsettling Discovery
In 1836, a group of young boys hunting rabbits on the slopes of Arthur’s Seat stumbled upon something far more interesting than their usual prey. Tucked into a little crevice in the hill was a stash of 17 miniature coffins hidden behind carefully pla
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Dramming Up Support
“This is what whisky was made for,” says Iain Forteath, indicating the scenery around us. We’re sitting on old casks by the side of the River Avon in the Cairngorms. It’s late in the day and the sun’s going down but there’s a massive fire blazing, we
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Top Tours 2024
First opening in 1824, Fettercairn Distillery sits in the beautiful Howe of Mearns, in the foothills of the Grampian Mountains. The distillery was founded by Sir Alexander Ramsay, one of the Scottish landowners who campaigned to license Scotch whisky
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Highland Flings
HELENSBURGH AND LOMOND HIGHLAND GAMES, HELENSBURGH Situated very close to Loch Lomond’s bonnie, bonnie, banks, these traditional, community-driven games include events like the sheaf toss, hammer throw and caber toss. hlhighlandgames.scot STRATHMORE
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The Story Behind…
Kayaking the Sea Roads: Exploring the Scottish Highlands is the story of my physical and mental journey kayaking through the Highlands and Islands, but it’s also an investigative journey of nature and humans and changing landscape too. A story of enl

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