Having driven up the A9 towards Inverness dozens of times over the years, I was well aware of the Highland Folk Museum at Newtonmore,...

Following my successful five days in London, following the Thames Path through the city, I flew from Stanstead to Berlin to join Nicole...

Scotland's most northerly jail housed some of the country's most violent offenders between 1888 and 2013 - including those convicted of...

It all started when I read a glowing review of the Stonehenge exhibition at the British Museum in London. I checked the website and...

Nobody likes traipsing around indoor museums at the age of 12. Unless we're talking giant dinosaurs or machinery that moves at the push...

My home county of Fife has a 117-mile coastal path running all the way round the peninsula. The vast majority of the route is away from...

As a child, I went on many family caravan and camping adventures. One regular haunt was the site at Faskally, just outside the Perthshire...

Another special exhibition had rolled into town. The National Museum was hosting Birds of America and we didn't want to miss this one....

A rainy Sunday was forecast and I had no appetite for sitting at home. An indoor activity was the obvious solution and I took the first...

I first visited the National Gallery of Modern Art almost 20 years ago and decided a follow-up was long overdue. I bussed it over to the...

The tiny village of West Wemyss on the Fife coast is a true hidden gem. Now a conservation area with a population of less than 300, it's...

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...

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...

After lengthy spells at home during lockdown, it was something of a novelty to simply jump on a bus to the big city and hit a museum....

Although lockdown was an adventure in itself and opened up new avenues of interest, there's no getting away from the fact that it did...

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...

Ever since my dad moved into a care home, I have been making an effort to take mum on day outings over the weekend. She hasn't driven a...

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....

In 1883, the world's first Carnegie library was opened in Dunfermline. Andrew Carnegie is the town's most famous son and he amassed...