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Award Success For Contini Restaurant

Top Sustainable Business Award for The Scottish Cafe & Restaurant The Scottish Cafe & Restaurant at the Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh, has won the top Sustainable Business Award at […]

Mountains Of The Moon

Fifth-time Lucky

Alan Rowan’s unlucky streak of overcast moonwalks was about to end My faith has been restored – the Pink Moon delivered in abundance. I had chosen Beinn Eighe for […]

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Jim Crumley

“The Scottish landscape is my bedrock. Almost everything I write begins with the landscape, and that becomes the stage set where the writer performs.” Introducing our Scottish wildlife expert, […]

Mountains Of The Moon

Bla Bheinn Under The Blue Moon

March 31 saw 2018’s second Blue Moon and a climb of the blue mountain for Alan Rowan, who was fairly blue with cold himself by the end of it! […]

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Tom Weir | The First “My Month”

After writing occasional freelance features for The Scots Magazine for several years, Tom Weir was finally given his own column in April 1956 The “My Month” series lasted for over […]

Mountains Of The Moon

The Early Bird Doesn’t Always Catch The Worm

“The Beast from the East” somewhat impeded Alan Rowan’s hiking plans to catch the Worm Moon in his Mountains of the Moon challenge I HAD always feared the third full […]

Catch spectacular photos by Keith Fergus on our latest Great Scottish Journey

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Great Scottish Journeys Guide!

Twelve Routes to the Heart of Scotland Keith Fergus, with a little help from the team at The Scots Magazine, has turned his popular Great Scottish Journeys series into a […]

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Tom Weir | Countrywide (II)

An invasion of capercaillie causes excitement in Glen Lyon, but threats to Abernethy Forest worry Tom Weir Close to our house we had an unusual visitor, a hen capcrcaillie, which homed-in […]