Classic British hotels are something we’ve grown up reading about but when it came to our stay at Ballachulish Hotel, we got more than we bargained for. It’s late afternoon and it’s pouring with rain. After experiencing one of the most majestic and mysterious locations we...
Glencoe is a place of extremes. Extreme sports, extreme weather and extremely mesmerizing landscapes and views. Glencoe’s name will forever be tied to a brutal massacre that happened early in the morning of 13 February 1692 when 38 members of the Clan McDonald were killed in cold blood...
The Kildrummy Park Castle Hotel is a hotel by name, but its palatial features, grand fireplaces and luxury appointments sits it somewhere between a hunting lodge, a stately home and a palace. We’ve been lucky enough to stay in castles before and this time around, we were looking for a new...
If you’re a fan of single malt scotch whisky, a detour to The Glenlivet distillery is an essential stop – though you may need to hire a driver. For scotch aficionados, The Glenlivet is one of the finer drops. The self-proclaimed “single malt that started it all” is steeped in history...
Panda and Sons Edinburgh is the city’s best speakeasy bar. Panda and Sons Edinburgh is the first modern speakeasy in the Scottish capital. Living in New York, speakeasies are a dime a dozen. For other cities catching on to the trend, they’re popular hot spots to impress friends...
The North East Falconry Centre in Huntly is a humble, yet fantastic experience for Audubon fans of all ages. Falconry has made a huge comeback over the last twenty years. Sure, there’s the actual working falconers who make a living training fine birds of prey to hunt for game birds...
The Elephant House Edinburgh is a low-key cafe and tea room where J.K. Rowling wrote Harry Potter. Bohemian students, artists, writers and business people sitting on the one coffee and leaching the free Wi-Fi are the bane of a cafe owner’s existence – especially at the Elephant...
Innis and Gunn looks, sounds and tastes like a beer that has been around for a hundred years, but in all truth, it is only coming up to its fifteenth birthday. We first discovered Innis and Gunn at the Gordon Ramsay Pub at Atlantic City. He had it recommended in the menu as his ideal...