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…
During my visit to the Cairngorms in May with the Scotlanders boys, it was great to be able to spend the morning at the Cairngorm Reindeer Centre. Our guide for the day was Hen and it was clear that she was passionate about working with the reindeer, having been there for over eight years by now.…
I was delighted to have the opportunity to spend the weekend in the Cairngorms National Park with the boys from the Scotlanders Neil Robertson and Dougie Baird. On Saturday morning we had an early start from Glasgow where we travelled to the Cairngorms. The drive alone up the A9 is one of the more scenic…
I was delighted to have my first opportunity to watch ‘Beating Retreat’ in Edinburgh’s Royal Mile and on Edinburgh Castle Esplanade. I had also been asked to take a few shots, which I was of course delighted to do. This was the 58th annual event and it is organised by the local Boys Brigade organisation…
My experience with Scottish Whisky Having now lived in Scotland for nearly 10 years, I almost feel I can claim that a good Scottish Whisky is also my national drink! As May is now officially the Whisky Month and 2015 is the official ‘Year of Food and Drink’ by Visit Scotland, I thought it was…
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…
