Scottish Hotels : Scotland Magazine

Wild in the country

Gary McLean looks at the best hunting and country sports hotels

Man at one with elements, man in the hills, right in the very heather, breathlessly quiet; or waist deep in the swift river, aware of every eddy and each pebble underfoot. Man the hunter. The hairs on many a neck will rise at the thought of it all, the primordial stuff still in the genes. Country ...

By Gary McLean from Issue 22 published on 10/08/2005

A great explorer

In 1799 a young Scottish borderer published his story of an epic African journeyand became the toast of London society. Neil Gunn recounts his story.

The first volume of Mungo Park’s Travels into the Interior of Africa was published in 1799 to huge acclaim. Lewis Grassic Gbbon commented that: “London and the provinces devoured the book.” Mungo Park was born in 1771 during the ‘Golden Age’ of Scottish Enlightenment, that period in our history tha...

By Neil Gunn from Issue 12 published on 19/1/2004

Hogmanay Hotels

EVERYONE KNOWS SCOTLAND IS THE PLACE TO BE FOR NEW YEAR. BUT IF YOU’RE PLANNING SOMETHING REALLY SPECIAL THIS YEAR, WHERE SHOULD YOU GO? WE SOUGHT THE OPINION OF A BROAD RANGE OF SCOTTISH JOURNALISTS AND PR PEOPLE

Hogmanay. Just the fact that Scotland has a special word for New Year is a clear indication that no-one on the planet celebrates it with more style. Indeed Edinburgh, always a progressivecity when it comes to self-promotion, has turned the whole festive period into a major event, and its firework d...

By from Issue 10 published on 5/9/2003

Living on an island

RODDY MARTINE GOES IN SEARCH OF ISLAND PARADISE AND SELECTS SOME TOP HOTELS

Stepping out into the winds of the Atlantic Ocean off the west coast of the Scottish mainland, with the far-flung St Kilda group the nearest outpost to North America, are Scotland’s Inner and Outer Hebrides. For lovers of islands, the Hebrides hold their own, incomparable enchantment. With a restl...

By Roddy Martine from Issue 7 published on 7/3/2003

The Great Escape

Charles Douglas gets away from it all

For those in search of an escape from the big city pressures of modern life, the Scottish countryside beckons. The climate, often featuring four seasons in a day, may not always be what you had hoped for, but this is off-set by spectacular scenery, open skies and the opportunity to do exactly as y...

By Charles Douglas from Issue 4 published on 9/9/2002

Scotland's finest country hotels

The Scottish mainland, as well as featuring fabulous city hotels, also boasts some of the British Isles' most spectacular country hotels. We profile some of the best

THE FAR NORTH Sutherland and Caithness Not for nothing did Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother choose to make the Castle of Mey overlooking the Pentland Firth in the far north her Scottish home. This is a wild, remote and beautiful coastline which needs to be explored from John O’ Groats at the nor...

By Marcin Miller from Issue 2 published on 5/6/2002

Scotland's finest city hotels

Smoe of Britain's finest hotels can be found in Scotland - and not just golf resorts. We round up the best in Scotland's city centre hotels

Edinburgh It was Thomas Jefferson, America’s third president, who said of Scotland’s capital it was a city "that no place in the world can pretend to compete with." Not a great deal has changed since then. Much as it did in the late 18th century, the Old Town continues to run along a spine of rock ...

By from Issue 1 published on 5/3/2002