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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...

The Wee Tea Company

’TIS the season for tea, and for the true connoisseur, it has to be The Wee Tea Company. The Wee Tea Company was founded in...

Rednock Estate and Lake of Menteith hotel give pupils a taste for venison

REDNOCK Estate teamed up with the chefs from Karma's Lake of Menteith hotel last week to give primary school pupils a taste of the countryside....

Six Scottish restaurants in world’s top 1,000 by La Liste

HALF a dozen Scottish restaurants have been ranked among the 1,000 best in the world by French food app La Liste. Restaurant Andrew Fairlie at...

Tigerlily tequila garden opened by Miss Scotland

MISS Scotland has launched the Herradura tequila garden at Tigerlily on Edinburgh's George Street. Lucy Sophia Thomson was joined by Tigerlily general manager Luke Trodden...

Duck & Waffle hatches Edinburgh expansion

LONDON'S Duck & Waffle restaurant is spreading its wings by opening a branch in Edinburgh. The eatery - which is located on the 40th floor...
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REVIEW: Prestonfield House, Edinburgh

Peter Ranscombe tucks into the autumnal menu at the Rhubarb restaurant in Edinburgh’s Prestonfield House. APPROACHING Prestonfield House, once the official residence of Edinburgh’s Lord...

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