Just published – a collection of 50 offbeat attractions, quirky curiosities and hidden gems, the kind of places you will…
The Journey Begins
Welcome to Scotland… Not to the Scotland of glossy tourist brochures, airbrushed landscape photographs, coach parties, visitor centres and woollen…
Mansion Buried below a Bing
West Lothian country seat of the wealthy Steuart family, Westwood House, near West Calder, was an opulent Victorian mansion with…
Lost Village of East Benhar
East Benhar Mine was a short-lived enterprise established in 1940 by Messrs Barr and Thorntonand abandoned 17 years later. It…
Boarhills Bunker
The Boarhills Bunker – two wartime pillboxes linked by a short tunnel – offers a short subterranean adventure adjacent to…
Forgotten Fairley in a Field
This forgotten Royal Navy Fairley Gannet sits abandoned in a field next to a former Second World War airfield in…
Coastal notes
A coastal art installation erected by an unknown artist that struck a chord with walkers on the popular Arbroath cliff-top trail,…
Tenement Tones
An interesting observation from Rosefield Street, a residential road in the west end of Dundee that I regularly wander up…
Clay Schoolhouse
The Carse of Gowrie hamlet of Cottown is home to a rare clay-built thatched-roofed schoolhouse, one of only a very…
Reedbed Wrecks
The River Tay is home to Britain’s largest continuous reedbed. Habitat for an array of wildlife, including marsh harriers, water…
Croick Church
Tiny Croick Church is one of Scotland’s most remote kirks, sitting at the end of a 10-mile long single track…
Strathpeffer Sculptures
Blackmuir Wood, on the edge of the Highland spa town of Strathpeffer, is home to a magical, if slightly haunting,…
