Scotland Magazine author Simon Walton

Fancy a fling?

The Highland Games are where storybook Scotland and the real thing meet in a spectacular coincidence of colour, pageant and competition. Simon Walton finds out that just about every other genuine Scottish community is touched by the tradition

The diminutive figure of Queen Victoria is hardly the quintessential image of the Highland Games. The toss of the caber, the skirl of the pipes, and the dervish whirling of the highland dancers could hardly have amused. Yet, without the patronage of that universally popular monarch, the games would ...

Best of Scotland from Issue 15 published on 18/7/2004