A Scottish Brownie

From the time King James II fled, in 1688, to France, in exile, several ‘Jacobite Risings’ arose in Scotland....

William Ruthven was born in 1541, at Ruthven Castle in Perthshire, Scotland. In 1582 William Ruthven, 1st Earl of...

The Tower of Hercules, Torre de Hercules, is the oldest surviving lighthouse in the world. Up until the twentieth...

Glen Coe, is Scotland’s most famous glen. A glen is a narrow, deep, often glacial U-shaped valley with a...

The Rinns of Galloway is a stretch of land known as a, ‘hammer-head’ peninsular. Its Gaelic name is, “Na...

Gateshead is an area where there are lots of interesting places to see & things to do. On the...

There are many myths, legends & songs, but did King Arthur really exist ? Myths:-  tales invented by people...

Eilean Donan Castle sits in one of the most beautiful spots of the Scottish Highlands, situated where three lochs...