The Scottish Highlands have captured travellers’ imaginations since Sir Walter Scott began setting his wildly evocative historical novels here. What those first Victorian tourists discovered was a vas

ONE day, tailor Robert Spittal arrived at Doune and sought to cross the River Teith by the ferry boat. He must have been quite embarrassed to discover he hadn’t enough money with him to pay the toll.

I DON’T know if it’s worse attempting to drive up an icy hill or drive down one. I certainly won’t forget that horrible feeling of helplessness many winters ago, driving down the Reedie Hill road into

WHEN I was in the National Archives at Kew in London, researching for my first published book, I made a very interesting discovery. My book, “Damn’ Rebel Bitches: The Women Of The ’45”, was set during

We rarely have a plan for our campervan adventures, preferring instead to point our noses in a general direction of travel and play it by ear. This summer in the UK was no exception as we left our hom

It is May, the sun is shining, the work schedules align; off we go on an impromptu trip close to home in Northern Ireland. With our youngest now away in college, we can take a May holiday and take adv