Against the tide we multiply
A walk through my hometown this week took me along the High Street and past the County Inn, a local pub and former coaching inn for the stage coaches to Edinburgh. The façade of the building is 18th century but part of the interior is...
Not exactly a walk in the park: Scotland’s links to the slave trade
A stroll closer to home today for my four legged friend! We walked to Haylodge Park, five minutes from our house and a beautiful green space with the River Tweed running through it. I have been coming to this park my whole life, and spent...
Loch Lomond
“You’ll tak the high road, and I’ll tak the low road And I’ll be in Scotland afore ye For me and my true love, will never meet again On the bonnie, bonnie banks of Loch Lomond” Loch Lomond, half an hour’s drive north of Glasgow,...
Glasgow
Glasgow, in the west of Scotland, is a fascinating city to visit. It is a bustling modern city which nonetheless celebrates its industrial heritage as the “Second City of Empire” during the 19th century. Here you will find great shopping, vibrant bars and restaurants, as...
Day Tours
Departing from Edinburgh or Glasgow Private chauffeur drive tours Services of a Scottish Highland Trails car/van and driver/guide Providing there is enough time to get you there and back in a day from Edinburgh or Glasgow we can take you anywhere! Popular options for day...
Day Tours
Discover Scotland with your own Scottish Highland Trails car and driver/guide Departing from Edinburgh or Glasgow Private chauffeur drive tours Services of a Scottish Highland Trails car/van and driver/guide Our cars can seat up to 8 people Providing there is enough time to get you...
2012: The Year of Creative Scotland
2012 is the Year of Creative Scotland! A year long celebration of our culture, music, and arts with truly world class events taking place throughout the country. Poetry, jazz, bagpiping, traditional music, comedy, literature, architecture, design, film, crafts, textiles…you name it, there is a wealth...
The Isle of Barra in the Outer Hebrides looking so peaceful and picturesque in the winter sun today! There are various suggestions as to where the island’s name came from, but one suggestion is from Old Norse meaning ‘bare island’. Kisimul Castle, which sits on a small rocky outcrop in See More
Gorgeous light today. View to the hills over Peebles in the Scottish Borders with the town cemetery and St Andrew’s Tower. The tower is all that remains of St Andrew’s Church, consecrated in 1195 and built on the site of a series of earlier churches likely dating back to the See More