A Scottish New Year
New Year is celebrated all over the world, but no-one does a Hogmanay Party like the Scots! Edinburgh’s celebrations are probably the best known, and the Edinburgh Street Party attracts thousands of revellers every year to ring in the bells on Princes Street. Against...
Tailor Made Robert Burns Tours
Then catch the moments as they fly, And use them as ye ought, Man! Believe me, Happiness is shy, And comes not ay when sought, Man! “A bottle and a friend”, 1787 Perhaps those words of Burns best sum up what our vacations in...
The Only True International Poet
Robert Burns, Scotland’s National Bard and often described as the only true International Poet, was born in the village of Alloway, just outside Ayr, on 25th January 1759. In his short life of 37 years, he wrote and collected a vast amount of poetry and...
Tour Scotland with Scottish Highland Trails
Scottish Highland Trails is a family business specialising in personalised, tailored vacation packages for visitors to Scotland.
My resolution this year is to read more, and one of the books that’s been on my list for a long time is The Living Mountain. What a wee gem of a book this is! Written in the 1940s and only about 100 pages long, this is Nan Shepherd’s breathtakingly See More
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