Secret Scotland – the book

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…

West Lothian country seat of the wealthy Steuart family, Westwood House, near West Calder, was an opulent Victorian mansion with…

East Benhar Mine was a short-lived enterprise established in 1940 by Messrs Barr and Thorntonand abandoned 17 years later. It…

The Boarhills Bunker – two wartime pillboxes linked by a short tunnel – offers a short subterranean adventure adjacent to…

This forgotten Royal Navy Fairey Gannet sits abandoned in a field next to a former Second World War airfield in…

A coastal art installation erected by an unknown artist that struck a chord with walkers on the popular Arbroath cliff-top trail,…

An interesting observation from Rosefield Street, a residential road in the west end of Dundee that I regularly wander up…

The Carse of Gowrie hamlet of Cottown is home to a rare clay-built thatched-roofed schoolhouse, one of only a very…

The River Tay is home to Britain’s largest continuous reedbed. Habitat for an array of wildlife, including marsh harriers, water…

Tiny Croick Church is one of Scotland’s most remote kirks, sitting at the end of a 10-mile long single track…

Blackmuir Wood, on the edge of the Highland spa town of Strathpeffer, is home to a magical, if slightly haunting,…