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The Best of Scotland – Argyll & The Isles: from Oban to Mull…

 

Visit Scotland Argyll & The Isles Brochure 2012

Dear readers,

Are you ready to resume our trip around Scotland and to discover or re-discover some of its most beautiful landscapes and seascapes?

Books, maps, photo albums and notebooks are gathered on my desk ready to make us dream about ‘Everything Scotland’. Last […]

The Best of Scotland – Argyll & The Isles: Bute & Cowal…

 

Dear readers,

This post introduces a new series of articles which will lead us to some of the best places of Scotland. We’ve visited a number of them during our seven trips there and we’ll share with you a selection of our photos focusing on what we love best. Our last […]

North Harris: a Source of Inspiration for J.M. Barrie…

 

 

Blue waters and pink sands in Harris Outer Hebrides © 2000 Scotiana

Dear readers,

We have wonderful memories of our trips in the Outer Hebrides in 2003, 2004 and 2006 which led us from Lewis in the north to Barra and Vatersay in the south. We’re eager to go back there […]

The Dunmore Pineapple: an extraordinary Scottish garden ‘folly’

 

 

Dunmore Pineapple roof close-up © 2007 Scotiana

Hi everybody,

This incredible architectural “folly”, in the shape of a pineapple, was one of our big “coups de coeur” in Scotland.

The Dunmore Pineapple is situated about one kilometre northwest of Airth and the same distance south of Dunmore in the Falkirk council […]

A journey around Scotland: up and down the Royal Mile …

Wednesday 5 September

Today we are leaving our cosy wigwam at Morton’s Hall Campsite and we intend to spend the whole day in the old town of Edinburgh before taking the road to Glasgow. The weather is fine. In our journey around Scotland, we look forward with much anticipation to our last day in the […]