Scottish Minibreaking – Gleneagles

I could say I really do not know where to begin with Gleneagles but, in fact, let us just begin with this view – the grandest of views which greets you as you drive up the tree lined boulevard to arrive at the grandest of hotels.  And what makes this hotel grand is not necessarily its decadent interiors or its…
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Scottish Minibreaking – Old Mill on The Spey

A lodge to ruin all lodges forevermore; truly the best way to describe this idyllic bolthole, Old Mill on the Spey is indeed a Highland hideout. STAY We were invited to stay here by Highland Hideouts, a collection of uniquely beautiful, self catering properties in the Aviemore area, for the weekend and immediately fell in love before even stepping foot…
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Scottish minibreaking – Inverness

I always love driving North.  Somehow it is like you are being lifted out of every day life and dropped into a Scottish movie.  Head North in October and you are in for an even bigger treat for the colours of the hills are a-changing… The drive from Kilmacolm to Inverness is more than a hop, a skip and a…
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Scottish minibreaking – North Berwick

Go to the beach in spring they said.  It will be beautiful they said.  Cue forty five mile per hour winds (aka gale force), hail, snow, sun, sub zero temperatures, colossal waves and sand that whips your face like a brutal dermabrasion.  But beautiful it was nonetheless… STAY We stayed in the cutest Airbnb which was bang in the centre yet only twenty…
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Scottish mini-breaking – Kenmore

How is it even possible that we have been visiting Kenmore for eight years straight this same week and yet never have I ever shared a travel guide of any sort?  Well, let’s just right that wrong here and now.  Kenmore is an almost completely random little village, and when I say village that is perhaps even a grand assumption…
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