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Loch Ness Lodge

Loch Ness Lodge

24/11/2008

Loch Ness Lodge enjoys one of the most spectacularly beautiful locations in all of Scotland. Set snugly into the hillside on the wooded western slopes above the loch, the white-washed Lodge with its distinctive traditional roofline, commands breathtaking views north and south over the country’s most famous stretch of water. When we arrived, late on a glorious autumn afternoon, the loch lay before us like a gleaming mirror reflecting at its margins groves of silver birch and golden beech and at its centre the pale powder blue of a cloudless sky.

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The Arran Banner Sillycat Media
 

Piping up a Storm

21/11/2008

Anyone seriously into the music of the great Highland bagpipes will want to be at The Gathering in Edinburgh’s Holyrood Park on the weekend of July 25-26 next year. On Saturday, July 25, the crème de la crème of solo piping will compete throughout the day in a special invitational event to be run by Scotland’s National Piping Centre.

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Craigellachie Hotel on Speyside Scottish Field Magazine
 
Extremes

Extremes

18/11/2008

In the wilds of sub-Arctic Canada, where winter temperatures often plummet to minus 40C and soar above 30C in summer, the indigenous people, the Dene, have for millennia existed at the very margins of human endurance. Having mastered one of the world’s most hostile natural environments, their expression Dè T'a Hoti Ts'eeda (We Live Securely By The Land) neatly captures the essence of this remarkable exhibition in Edinburgh. It’s a long overdue salute to the triumph of a unique indigenous culture.

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The Argyllshire Advertiser Old Postcards from Fort William.
 

Border Country, Lauderdale

06/10/2008

Sir David and Lady Steel continue our journey through the Scottish Borders with a visit to lovely Lauderdale.

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National Trust for Scotland The Oban Times
 

Lord Lyon King of Arms

29/09/2008

On the eve of his retirement, the Lord Lyon King of Arms, Sir Malcolm Innes of Edingight, KCVO, spoke with Bruce Stannard about his 20 years of service as the Queen’s Supreme Officer of Honour in Scotland.

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The Town House Company The Campbeltown Courier
 

Magnetic North

29/09/2008

The flight from Inverness to Kirkwall takes just 30 minutes but as we climbed over the coast of Caithness I felt as though I was leaving Scotland far behind and, like a time-traveller, journeying to another world entirely.

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Eilean Iarmain Hotel on Skye.
 

Baile - Farm, Village, Town and City

26/08/2008

If the Gaelic-speaking segment of Inverness’s population appeared a little less impressed than the majority Anglophone element by the decision to make the Highland capital Scotland’s newest city at the end of last year, it may have been the result of more than mere native Celtic phlegm, for the Gaelic language does not in fact commonly make the distinction which is so enthusiastically articulated in the nominal change from “town” to “city” in English.

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Remembering Miss Noble

26/08/2008

Miss Anastasia Noble devoted her life to breeding, showing and promoting magnificent Scottish Deerhounds. Her death at the age of 89 was lamented throughout the world and not least in the Highlands where she was a greatly revered and much loved character. Heather MacIlwraith pays her respects.

 

 

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Ardkinglas Woodland Garden

26/08/2008

In the dramatic Highland splendour of Glen Kinglas at the head of Loch Fyne stands Ardkinglas, an Edwardian mansion which must be one of the most delightful homes in Scotland. The elegant creamy granite house, designed by Sir Robert Lorimer, is at the heart of a 15,000 acre estate which boasts one of the most magnificent woodland gardens in Britain. Susan Cromarty reports from Argyll.

 

 

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Superb Scottish Seafood

26/08/2008

When you buy fish on the bone, you can easily tell how fresh it is. The eyes should look bright and not sunken, it should have a fresh sea smell with no hint of ammonia. If you look behind the gills, they should be a good red colour. The skin should be slightly slimy and the flesh firm – you can’t tell this from a pile of fillets!

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