June 2025

"Romantic history is found everywhere in southern Scotland’s lowlands - helping bring to life its wellspring of ruined abbeys, stately mansions, heathery hills and salmon-stocked rivers..."

"The best way to sum up Glasgow? Just look at the equestrian sculpture in front of the city's Gallery of Modern Art. It’s a statue of the Duke of Wellington with a traffic cone on his head..."

"It all began with fire and rock. The rugged, rangy landscape of modern-day Edinburgh was formed by three great volcanoes, which rose together here around 350 million years ago..."