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February 16, 2020

Storm Kicks Off Scotland's Year of Coasts and Waters

A 33 foot-tall puppet made her way through the streets of Glasgow during 2020's Celtic Connections, in a kickoff of a year long celebration of coasts and waters.  Her purpose?  "Storm lives in the...

Storm Kicks Off Scotland's Year of Coasts and Waters

A 33 foot-tall puppet made her way through the streets of Glasgow during 2020's Celtic Connections, in a kickoff of a year long celebration of coasts and waters.  Her purpose?  "Storm lives in the waters around Scotland, and ...

Food Finds: Deesserts in Glasgow

Sauchiehall Street in Glasgow is a major shopping street. A pedestrian area near the city center buzzes with stores, including fashion boutiques and pound stores, as well as eating places from Burger King to Masala Twist. Further west as auto traffic ...

Sir John Lavery's Pergola latest masterpiece to go on display at Georgian Mansion

A painting by highly acclaimed post-impressionist and 'Glasgow Boy' Sir John Lavery has gone on public display in the UK for the first time since the 1940s. The Pergola is now being exhibited at the A-listed Georgian mansion of Duff House, n ...

Lost Heritage of Inner Hebrides uncovered in landmark new book

For the first time the forgotten histories of a group of four Scottish islands – known collectively as the Small Isles – have been brought together in a definitive new work.   By exploring the physical evidence that remains, The ...

Exploring Scotland's North Coast 500

oute 66, Going to the Sun Road, The Wild Atlantic Way: classic travelers'  routes all. The folk of the North Highland Initiative would like to add another to that list: North Coast 500.    North Coast 500 i ...

History, Legend Meet in Art: The Kelpies

Art, engineering, history, legend -- The Kelpies have connection to all these things, and a few more. But wait, you may be thinking, what are The Kelpies anyway? Works of art, works of engineering, a new feature in the landscape in ...

Leading 18th century Scottish artist celebrated in new exhibition

An exhibition which will showcase a collection of artworks by one of Scotland’s greatest 18th century artists, Allan Ramsay, is set to open in the North East.   The Allan Ramsay – Master Draughtsman exhibition, which opens to ...

Gaelic, Scots, and Outlander: Speaking Scotland

If you, a speaker of English, found yourself unexpectedly dropped back into the Highlands of Scotland in the 1700s, as protagonist Claire Randall does in the Outlander books and television series, one of the things you’d notice right aw ...

The Essence of Scotland: Artist Aileen Clarke

The colors of Scotland are not only memorable, but indelibly burned into our minds, even after just one glimpse. They are vibrant, lush, stark at times, and bring joy, for there is no other land quite like Scotland, is there? Luckily fo ...

Skiing Scotland

The Highlands of Scotland: they are beautiful indeed when covered with the flowers of summer and autumn's lovely red and gold. What happens to them in winter? Snow! and they become destinations for skiing and other winter sports and landscape explorat ...

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