Ayr is Scotland’s most prized seaside town… seriously… we actually have one or two of them. The other is Wemyss Bay on the East Coast. This awesome big town was once home to William Wallace, was the site of the birth of Robert Burns, and was one of the five fortified towns Oliver Cromwell…
Inverness: a Five Minute Tour Inverness is the actual capital of the Highlands. It might not say that on any official documentation – but it’s the Highland capital. To those of us down here in the central belt there is only Fort William after Inverness… and the North Coast 500, of course. Inverness is opposite…
Perched on the northern shores of the Firth of Forth you will find the stony city of Dunfermline. It was made famous in the early 18th century as being the birthplace of Andrew Carnegie. A man who went on to open 2,509 libraries throughout the known world. The Scots care more for books than we…
A Quick Tour of Kirkcaldy Home of Jocky Wilson. First of all, its Kirkcaldy is pronounced Kir-cod-ae. Now that’s out of the way, let’s talk about the best sights to see if you are in Kirkcaldy for an afternoon. Adam Smith Kirkcaldy is probably Fife’s most famous town given it has a bit of an…
That’s Hamilton Scotland, not the more or less interesting (depending on your viewpoint) American or Australian ones… Hamilton is (arguably) the biggest commercial centre in South Lanarkshire County. With an actual shopping centre, its own adventure swimming pool and the only nightclub for a few miles in any direction – it is one of the…
East Kilbride – usually just known as EK – is fairly close to Glasgow, just to the South East of the city in fact, and although there is a West Kilbride too, but the less said about that the better: well at least until we get round to writing our guide to it. East Kilbride…