Vacation Scotland

To some it is the holiest day of the year, to others a holiday filled with bunny rabbits and chocolate eggs; but over 1300 years ago the celebration and dating of Easter was a controversial ecumenical hot potato that pitted the might of the Papacy against the Abbey of Iona on Scotland’s west coast, and [...]

From the Highland capital, Inverness, the A9 Trunk Road continues north through the Black Isle, and over the Cromarty and Dornoch Firths making towards a ridge of blue mountains in the distance; for the land beyond is the great county of Sutherland. Sutherland is a an odd name for a district in the far north [...]

Lying to the far north of Scotland are the amazing Orkney Islands; a genuine treasure trove of history, stunning scenery and prehistoric riches. There are standing stones circles and complex burial chambers erected by our Neolithic ancestors over 5000 years ago; a perfectly preserved stone age village; breathtaking cliffs abundant with some of Europe’s largest [...]