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…
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,…
Women of the Woods
Formed in April 1942 as an offshoot of the Women’s Land Army, the Women’s Timber Corps worked the forests of…
Corrour Station
Corrour is the highest and most remote mainline railway station in Britain. Located in the heart of Rannoch Moor, a…
Red Squirrels in Fife
Scotland’s wildlife is often pretty elusive. Guidebooks and interpretive boards offer a glossy catalogue of what may be spotted but…
Earthquake House
A stone shed deep in the Perthshire countryside was once the epicentre of earthquake studies. The grand name it possesses,…
The Bronze Ford
Gracing Cameron Square in the centre of Fort William, the Bronze Ford is a replica (or ‘replicar’) of the Ford…
Mahatma Gandhi – sitting at a bus stop
‘Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.’ – the words of Mahatma…
Plague Grave
When the Great Plague of 1645 swept north from Edinburgh, crossing the River Forth into the Kingdom of Fife, it…
Secret Howff
Hidden away in the remote upper reaches of Gleann an t-Slugain, Slugain Howff has, since its clandestine construction in the…
