If you’ve never been to Tenerife, but you write it off as just a sun drenched escape for lobster red Brits where the only food you can get is fried British breakfasts in a ye olde English tavern then it’s time to think again. I headed back down for the seventh time recently and just [...]
The Canary Islands are all about cheesy resorts, lying on the beach and not much beyond sea, sun and less salubrious pursuits. Right? Wrong, as I discovered when I headed south to check out a brilliant new walking festival and what is now my favourite resort anywhere on the seven Canary Islands. The first time [...]
Mention the Algarve to many people and the images instantly conjured up are of mass tourist ranks thronging to enjoy sea and sand, a land where cooked British breakfasts and pumping nightclubs rule. Not a place then for a world class walk? You might have to think again on that one as I did when [...]
Being born and brought up in West Lothian I’ve never thought about this oft forgotten slice of Central Scotland as serious tourist material. So when the local tourist people invited me to pop along with my young family to check it out with fresh eyes I jumped at the slightly surreal chance. Maybe it is [...]
Robin McKelvie’s Wilderness Scotland Blog – Wild Walking on Knoydart I blog for www.wildernessscotland.com too, one of my favourite adventure travel companies. Here is a blog a did for them on a stunning part of Scotland. Knoydart is a real wilderness and I got the most out of it by going into the wilds with [...]
By now most of Scotland has heard all about Disney-Pixar’s Brave and the rest of the world – well at least the 70 countries it will soon be shown in – will know about this Hollywood epic soon. Think a sort of Shrek with a female lead set in an imagined Scotland, with a flurry [...]
The programme will be announced for the Edinburgh Film Festival on May 29. Now sitting firmly outside the main summer festivals this event is now thriving and getting the attention it really deserves. Dates for the diary are June 19-30. Making the biggest headlines, of course, last year was the European premiere of Disney-Pixar’s animated extravaganza Brave. [...]
I’ve had a passionate love affair with the Isle of Arran ever since I was a wee boy and it is a Scottish island that just gets better and better as I discovered recently when I steamed ‘doon the water’ on a week long adventure that brought epic ridge walks, and a flurry of fine [...]
Scotland has been voted the world’s number one mountain biking destination and it is easy to see why with epic landscapes that are ideal for biking and a plethora of great mountain biking centres that have sprung up all over the country in recent years. Glentress in the Borders is one of the best of [...]
Mention the Algarve to some people and the images instantly conjured up are of cheesy mass tourism, faceless hotels and bloated Brits devouring English breakfasts in British run bars. This side of Portuguese region does exist, but there is also another Algarve of smoothly run hotels and world class resorts as I discovered when I [...]
My love of travelling first distilled within me before I had never even left my native Scotland. My Dad used to take me down to Princes Street Gardens where I would gaze at the trains rumbling in and out of Edinburgh Waverley. During school holidays I was spirited off to the Scottish islands and weaned [...]
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