I was raised as a Fifer but lived the first four and a half years of my life in Tranent, East Lothian. My folks are both from the Kingdom...

A few months ago, I explored the old Loanhead Railway from end to end. It is now a cycle path and features a steel lattice viaduct over...

I lived in Dundee from 1993 to 1995. Scary to think that's now more than a quarter of a century ago. I try to get up to the old city at...

The Lanarkshire town of Coatbridge has a proud industrial heritage and the area was once dominated by foundries and coal mines. The...

Many people come from miles around to walk the Fife Coastal Path - a 117 mile route running from Kincardine to Newburgh. In 2019, a new...

I'll often say I was motivated to visit a certain location by spotting it on Google Maps. In this case I had randomly been scrolling...

There are two famous long distance walking trails through the Kingdom of Fife. The Coastal Path winds for 117 miles around the peninsula...

The West Fife village of Saline lies just five miles from our home. There is a pleasant walk through the wooded steep-sided glen that...

Let's get one thing straight. Scotland has four cities: Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dundee and Aberdeen. Ok, Perth at a push. We all know it has...

With Nicole working all day Sunday for the foreseeable future, I began assembling a list of destinations I could comfortably visit during...

The city of Edinburgh is built around seven hills: Calton, Castle, Arthur's Seat, Corstorphine, Blackford, Craiglockhart and Braid. Today...

In recent years I've marked the autumn Doors Open days in the diary. They take place over various weekends in September and each local...

I hadn't done a railway walk in a while and a couple of paths had been filed away in a mental drawer. Midlothian was hit just as hard as...

Spring was in the air and I had a free Sunday. It was warm(ish) and dry outside. What better way to restore some fitness than by tackling...

In 1904, the legendary American showman Buffalo Bill embarked upon a comprehensive tour of 29 Scottish venues. Multiple dates were staged...

The October holidays came around and a trip to Germany was still off limits. We plumped for five days down in the southwest of Scotland....

I have previously written extensively about the sad case of Lilias Adie, the Torryburn resident accused of practising witchcraft in the...

Two weeks off work and a few days left to my own devices while Nicole worked upstairs in the home office behind the clothes horse. We had...

As a resident of West Fife, my wanderings often take me into the neighbouring county of Clackmannanshire. Known affectionately as the Wee...

Today's outing was a drive up to Stonehaven on the northeast coast, approximately halfway between Montrose and Aberdeen. I hadn't visited...