Scotland in general Reviews

I've live in the Highlands of Scotland all my life. I don't think I ever really appreciated how amazing it actually is until I grew up and went to other places. I always felt myself being drawn back home I am always going to be a country girl and I actually get nervous about ever having to move to a City. So when the time came in life ...  Read the complete review

Being born and brought up in England, Scotland had always been one of the places that I intended to visit, but never quite got around to doing so. That is until a couple of years ago. As an extended weekend break for my Husband's birthday we booked a short break with a local coach travel company which included a stay at The Spittal of Glenshee ...  Read the complete review

I have always been a big fan of rain. As long as I know there are clean dry clothes waiting for me at the other end of a rain shower, a hot bath, a nice wee drink, I’m happy. It’s great for my garden, makes all the pretty flowers grow, and saves me lugging great hefty buckets and watering cans about. Fantastic. Rain is something that comes ...  Read the complete review

People of Dooyoo As penance for spending the majority of last week feeding on the oh so tasty MaryanneH, it falls upon me to give you a tour of the West Coast of Scotland, an incredibly beautiful part of the British Isles. Now I first met MaryanneH outside her tent in ...  Read the complete review

Clearing a bookshelf I found the diary my friend and I had written when hitch-hiking through Scotland. I thought at once I could use it for an op, so I contacted the travel guide and asked him what he thought of it. What ? Have we now to ask for permission when we want to write an op? No, rest assured, nobody has thought of that, but, ...  Read the complete review

This charisma I spent a week in Scotland. Up in the highlands (just off fortwilams). My family friends and me rented a large house out for charismas and the New Year. It was defiantly the highlands due to the fact the nearest shop was 20 miles away, although there was a inn just up the was. Due to where are mansion was placed we experienced ...  Read the complete review

Firstly a SMUT alert, well a word of warning really. If you are looking to explore the heady heights of Aonach Mor and the Nevis Range then please be careful about the websites that you select from search engines relating to 'Ben Nevis'. You may be surprised at the results you get! It certainly made my eyes pop out! On a ...  Read the complete review

For some of you it might not be too apparent from watching TV and reading newspapers, but the UK actually consists of more than just "England" - shock horror eh! To the west of England there is a country whose name I can't remember such is its insignificance, I think it starts with a W. To the north-west there is a partitioned ...  Read the complete review

I last visited Skye more than ten years ago. Back then I was using public transport on rickety old buses across single track roads. Recently I've been lucky enough to get a new car, and Skye has been the benificiary of upgraded roads courtesy of the EU. I thought it was time to bring the two together. Using the aforementioned new roads it ...  Read the complete review

I recently visited Ayrshire (april 2002) and found it to be absolutely fantastic for what we were looking for. We stayed in Colmonel which to be honest is not the representative hub of activity for Scotland but does serve as a good centre to visit the region and beyond. Going at this time of year meant that the roads were not too bad, ...  Read the complete review

Well I have just returned from a seven day trip from scotland, I started off by driving up the country and catching a ferry to the isle of bute as i was attending a motorcycle rally on the island. The island itself is beautiful and the locals are fairly friendly,the place does'nt have a whole lot to do so don't visit if you want a ...  Read the complete review

We went away for the week and went to visit glem more caravan park and what a wonderful place for a holiday,They have lovely walk and a loch and water sports and a fisher a few miles down the ready and it is right beside the cairngorms and not far from avimore. But do make sure you take some citrnello dor the dreaded scottish midgie they are ...  Read the complete review

Scotland in general – now there’s a topic one could get carried away with! The whole of a beautiful country in one opinion, well maybe not quite all of it! The first year that my partner, Dave, and I were together we were trying to decide where to go on holiday and I suggested the Isle of Skye. I had been before and had a ...  Read the complete review

Never in my life have I seen anything like it and I don't think I ever shall again, yet I do hope I will. I am talking about when we went with a coach party to see the Edinborough Military Tattoo. As you can expect it was fabulous, up to Royal Tournament standards (well nearly) but we were here for four days with Roper's Coaches, a ...  Read the complete review

~ ~ Scotland is a small country with a population of only around 5.5 million, roughly about 10% of the total population of the United Kingdom. But for a country so small, Scotland and the Scots have had an extraordinary influence on the rest of the world. She has a history that is one of the stormiest of any nation, has produced heroes and ...  Read the complete review

My first experience of Scotland was as a 15 year old when we went with the school army cadets on our two weeks summer camp, to a cadet camp just outside Comrie in Perthshire. Although at that age I had no great interest in scenery, the spectacular views around the area we were staying always stuck in my mind. Although I was a Battersea lad from ...  Read the complete review

I have lived in Scotland for over three and a half years now. On the whole I have enjoyed it, and cannot see myself living anywhere else for the foreseeable future, despite living in the Strathclyde/West of Scotland area which is unfortunately tainted by Protestant/Catholic bigotry. There are a lot of myths about Scotland and I would like to put ...  Read the complete review

My Grand Tour begins with a journey from Carlisle into Dumfries and Galloway. First stop is Dumfries, the quaint little town where Peter Pan's author J M Barrie went to school. Have a drink of Knockendoch at the New Bazaar pub on Whitesands beside the river. Stroll around the town admiring the Victorian architecture. Dumfries ...  Read the complete review