The sensitive topic of toilets and travel
I don’t care if you’re a member of the aristocracy with refined blue blood coursing through your veins, at some point when travelling you’re likely to get caught short. […]
I don’t care if you’re a member of the aristocracy with refined blue blood coursing through your veins, at some point when travelling you’re likely to get caught short. […]
Whereas sunrise gives notice it’s time to leave a cosy cocoon so the working day can start, a sunset is generally a signal for fun to begin… […]
Over the years I woke up to how privileged I’d been to grow up in such a special location as a tiny island with shortbread tin looks which straddled the lowlands and the Highlands. Now I look on Bute with a mix of pride and sadness. […]
I regularly read travel pieces which accuse British food of being almost inedible. Whenever I read this the same question pops into my head – where do these people eat? […]
When did city hotels become so cool? I can say, hand on heart, that staying at the citizenM in Glasgow was the best British city centre hotel stay I’ve experienced… […]
The realisation dawned that there is never going to be any time that I am going to think to myself ‘I really, really fancy tucking into a bowl of muesli.’ […]
Before Jack first took me up to Scotland some 20 years ago, long before the digital revolution, the only tablet I was familiar with was the kind taken in pairs with a glass of water when I could feel a migraine coming on… […]
For some reason Bute, one of Scotland’s most accessible, historic and interesting islands has fallen from grace and doesn’t seem to get an invite when Scotland… […]
Bute is an island with a history that’s as rich as a Tunnock’s tea cake but that’s for another blog, this is more a whistle stop tour of some of my favourite places. […]
When I was growing up the Rothesay Lade scared the hell out of me. To look at it you might wonder why a narrow channel of murky water running from Loch Fad… […]
The Victorian Toilets are one of the first things you’ll see after stepping off the ferry at Rothesay on the Isle of Bute. Years ago, when I was growing up on… […]
The Duke of Wellington statue outside of the Gallery of Modern Art is a Glasgow landmark. That’s not because of the work of Italian sculptor Carlo Marochetti… […]
It’s been a long, long time since roaring dragons huffed and puffed into Strathpeffer’s Victorian station, billowing excitedly… […]
On occasions, the mode of transport that we’ve used to get to a destination has added a tasty dollop of exotic spiciness and adventure to the whole experience. These have been some of our favourite ways to arrive at a destination. […]
Being part of a good value tour of the Scottish Highlands package, we didn’t expect much from Mackay’s Hotel and were really quite surprised when it exceeded expectations in a number of areas. […]
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