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’m awake. Very awake. It’s early on a wind-whipped Sunday morning and I’m neck-deep in the sea off the Isle of Man’s north-east coast. The rain is steady, the swell is heavy and the water is gaspindu

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The perfect stop before exploring the Highlands

Thanks to The Traitors , more and more of us are discovering the wild beauty of Scotland’s north west. Jessica Salter has the lowdown on where to venture