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Travel Review: A Weekend at Hilton Molino Stucky Venice

Getting to Venice  Flying from Edinburgh to Venice is not as easy as it would seem as finding direct flights are few and far between....
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Review: The Hari Afternoon Tea & London Tea Friends Summer Festival

Summertime in Auld Reekie can feel a lot more hectic than The Big Smoke. So, instead of breaking to London for the hustle and bustle,...
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Travel Review, Knipoch Hotel: ‘A visit to Knipoch is like taking a deep, restorative breath of crisp, cleansing Highland air’

I knew that Shakespeare’s singular Scottish play, Macbeth, was set in Scotland, of course, but I had no idea that the murder that inspired it...
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Travel Review: Seaton House, St Andrews

Visitors flock to St Andrews for different reasons, whether it be to play rounds of gold on the town's historic championship courses, visit the third-oldest...
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Fred Olsen: Scotland, Scilly Isles & The West Country 10 Night Cruise

At the ripe old age of 33, I packed my bags, hopped on the 30-minute train from Haymarket to Rosyth and into the waiting taxi...
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Galgorm Resort is the perfect place for a luxury spa break in Northern Ireland

There are spa breaks, and there are spa breaks. But when I agreed to travel to Northern Ireland to visit Galgorm Resort I was fairly...
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Travel Review: A Weekend at Hilton Molino Stucky Venice

Getting to Venice  Flying from Edinburgh to Venice is not as easy as it would seem as finding direct flights are few and far between....
IMG_2934_jpg

Review: The Hari Afternoon Tea & London Tea Friends Summer Festival

Summertime in Auld Reekie can feel a lot more hectic than The Big Smoke. So, instead of breaking to London for the hustle and bustle,...
Knipoch-Lounge 2025

Travel Review, Knipoch Hotel: ‘A visit to Knipoch is like taking a deep, restorative breath of crisp, cleansing Highland air’

I knew that Shakespeare’s singular Scottish play, Macbeth, was set in Scotland, of course, but I had no idea that the murder that inspired it...
IMG_3159_jpg

Travel Review: Seaton House, St Andrews

Visitors flock to St Andrews for different reasons, whether it be to play rounds of gold on the town's historic championship courses, visit the third-oldest...
IMG_9293

Fred Olsen: Scotland, Scilly Isles & The West Country 10 Night Cruise

At the ripe old age of 33, I packed my bags, hopped on the 30-minute train from Haymarket to Rosyth and into the waiting taxi...
galgorm exterior web

Galgorm Resort is the perfect place for a luxury spa break in Northern Ireland

There are spa breaks, and there are spa breaks. But when I agreed to travel to Northern Ireland to visit Galgorm Resort I was fairly...
La Favorita's pizza with haggis, red onions, sliced potatoes, super creamy mozzarella and a drizzle of whisky to complete the meal

Celebrate Burns Night with a haggis pizza

When Rabbie Burns wrote about the ‘great chieftain o’ the puddin’-race’, chances are he never envisaged haggis on pizza! But this month, in celebration of...
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Scottish tapas at Auchrannie’s Eighteen69 is the perfect match

When push comes to shove, I'm not sure there's a world cuisine out there I dislike.  There's plenty for me still to try but so...

Haggis ice cream is on the way to mark Burns Night

This January a Scots gelateria will be celebrating Burns Night the only way they know how: serving up haggis ice cream. Meat-free but with all...

Family farm diversifies with brewing and distilling

A Scots brewing and distilling firm has been handed a massive boost. Multi-disciplinary engineering firm, Edwards Engineering, has announced the completion of a unique eight-week...
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Behind the scenes: Arran Ice cream and The Parlour’s perfect pizza

My latest lucky work adventure took me around much of the Ayrshire coast and over the water to the isle of Arran.  While my trip...

Supermarket stocks new Scots probiotic drink

A Scottish dairy has launched Goodness Kefir, a cultured, fermented milk drink, similar to yogurt – but thinner in consistency. It is loaded with probiotics...

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