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.

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

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

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

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I AM someone who loves space. This is perhaps because of early childhood days on the beautiful Solway Coast. My father’s family farm was right on the beach. It enjoyed uninterrupted views across to th