If you know me, you will know that I could tell you many more reasons than ten reasons to visit this amazing and beautiful country I now call home. So here is what I have come up with for your Top Ten Reasons to Visit Scotland and why I think you should visit, but then I’m of…
When you arrive to the Scottish isles, straight away you feel your pace slowing down. Experiencing island pace usually happens when visiting the isles and things just may take that little bit longer. Things don’t get rushed, you should try it, its good for you! It had been over 12 years since we last visited, so were really excited to…
The Kingdom of Fife, filled with flavours and history ‘Most people would associate the Kingdom of Fife with the home of golf, which is indeed the case, but look closer and you will find a lot more than just that’ I was invited along with the other Scotlanders to spend the weekend in the Kingdom…
A few weekends ago we had a free afternoon and utilised this to visit the National Wallace Monument in Stirling http://www.nationalwallacemonument.com This year is a special one for the site, as it’s now 20 years since the showing of the famous Hollywood Blockbuster ‘Braveheart’. They are therefore hosting an array of special event and activities.…
Together with the rest of the Scotlanders and partners, we were visiting the Scottish Borders as part of a bigger Visit Scotland campaign, to further promote and create awareness of this somewhat unexplored part of Scotland with the new Borders Railway opening up in September of 2015. We are aware that the majority of visitors…
Abbotsford House, the home of Sir Walter of Scott Sir Walter Scott is known as the most famous Scottish poet and historical novelist. Some of his famous works included Waverly, Rob Roy and The Heart of Midlothian. As part of our Scottish Borders campaign in partnership with Visit Scotland which was to create awareness of…
After we departed the Isle of Arran, we made a quick stop over at Tarbert for lunch, while waiting for the connecting ferry to Portavadie Marina. I guess I still have the kid in me and every time we go aboard a ferry it’s an exciting ‘holiday’ feeling, so having two trips in a day…
I was really excited about our recent holiday which was back on the West Coast of Scotland. We had taken a week’s holiday, in fact a total of 9 days of exploring and road trips around the west coast. Our first part of the holiday was going through from Edinburgh across to Ardrossan to catch…
I am liking the new strapline for Dundee ‘One City, Many Discoveries’ Which is indeed the case. Myself and the Scotlanders group had been invited to visit Dundee by Jennie (Patter PR) and Tara (V&A Dundee) Gaynor (Dundee Waterfront Tourism). We started our morning with breakfast (I love any foods served with Black pudding) in…
‘Scotland in miniature’ A couple of years ago we were fortunate enough to visit the Isle of Arran on a number of occasions and we look forward to returning in 2015. You can arrive by ferry from Ardrossan to Brodick or Tarbert to Lochranza with CalMac http://www.calmac.co.uk/. When sailing from Ardrossan you will see this…
