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Bathgate is everybody’s favourite West Lothian town. People in this region have a strong, east coast accent, even though they aren’t really on the east coast – at least not in Bathgate. It’s about 8 km from Livingston which is where everyone in West Lothian goes shopping. The M8 runs pretty much straight through it…
Dumbarton can be found in West Dunbartonshire, funny enough. It is a town that has been around since the Iron Age and over the centuries grew up around the points where the River Clyde and the River Leven meet. It has its own castle, which is pretty neat. You can always tell a Scottish town…
The town of Elgin in Moray is one of those towns which due to its remote location is often missed when considering a Scottish excursion. This is a shame as Elgin is steeped in history, remarkably dry and temperate given it is in the rain shadow of the surrounding mountains and it even sports a…
Arbroath in the County of Angus is the place to visit if you like your seaside port towns mixed with a bit of historical significance. Â It is a town that has thrived throughout history as the base for importing and exporting all the goods the people in the county needs. No matter which industry thrived…
If you have been to the wet and wild west coast of Scotland, then Irvine is the third place you will have stopped, after Ayr and, if the Viking festival is on, then Largs, too. Irvine is pretty. It’s seaside pretty… yellow and red striped deck chairs and chips in the rain. It’s like Ayr…
Wishaw was once a North Lanarkshire industrial powerhouse before the steel mills closed and it was forced to seek a new identity. The one place in Scotland that is greyer than the overcast sky. There is a theory that Wishaw high street is where shops come to die. It definitely has an ‘end-of-the-world’ feel to…
Craig Taylor