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Nadine Lee
Queen Marks Anniversary in Scottish Style
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Beside a bubbling brook in a remote part of the highlands isn’t usually where you would expect to come across a modern-day monarch. But a new portrait of Queen Elizabeth II has done just that – pictu...
Topics: Balmoral, Crown Jewels, Elizabeth I, Gelder Burn, Macnab, Mary Queen of Scots, order of the thistle, Queen Elizabeth II, River Dee, Sir Henry Raeburn, Victoria
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Amanda Moffet
Highland Games in the desert
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As a moral booster to those serving in Afganistan a Highland Games has just been held. More than 100 soldiers, sailors and airmen stationed in Afghanistan took part – using rocks from the desert as i...
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Amanda Moffet
Photos from The West Highland Way
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The West Highland Way is a 95 mile walk, starting in Mingalvie, just outside Glasgow it finished in FortWillam. The walk goes past Loch Lomond over Rannoch moor to Glencoe then to Kinlochleven, which...
Topics: West Highland Way, Scottish Walks
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Nadine Lee
Clan Campbell Mausoleum Restoration Begins
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The dome topped mausoleum in front of Kilmun Parish Church Work has begun on restoring the final resting place of twenty generations of Campbell chiefs. Built in 1798, the current mausoleum is on th...
Topics: Argyll, Argyll Mausoleum Ltd, Campbell, Holy Loch, Kilmun, Sir Duncan Campbell
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Nadine Lee
The Road to Dere Street
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Just off the A68 on the outskirts of the Scottish Borders, a small sign points towards the remnants of an ancient highway. Known as Dere Street, the road was once a bustling hive of Roman (and later ...
Topics: A68, Borders, Clan Pringle, Dere Street, Hadrian's Wall, Malcolm IV, medicine, Medieval Scotland, Midlothian, Roman Empire, Romans in Scotland, Soutra Isle, Via Regia, Wind turbines
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