Known for hilltop castles, abundant rainfall, and rolling green valleys speckled with flocks of sheep, Scotland far exceeds its classic clichés. From the Highlands to the islands, Scotland is an ...

Colonsay is a roughly 10-by-2-mile island in Scotland's Inner Hebrides. It has a bookstore, two galleries, two distilleries making gin, a general store and the Colonsay House, a Georgian home owned by ...

Like the smoky whisky that won Scotland international renown, it takes just one taste of the Hebridean islands for many wealthy tourists to want a second home there. The Inner Hebrides—a collection of ...

White sand beaches probably aren’t first thing that come to mind when thinking of Scotland. That honor probably belongs to golf, or whisky. But this is a country full of surprises, and even if the ...

As the wind whips against the rugged cliffs and the ocean whispers stories of old, the islands of the Inner and Outer Hebrides off the west coast of Scotland exude an almost mythical charm. This vast ...

After wrenching free of my habitual moorings, last summer I stood below the whitewashed stone wall of an old farmhouse on a remote Scottish isle. I stared out at the same wild, coastal view that a ...

PERTINACITY in an endeavour to carry out the results of a fixed idea has almost always been regarded as a virtue, even when the principle involved has seemed to be hopelessly mistaken, and thus the ...

THIS beautiful book, fine in temper, style, and illustrations, discloses something of the charm of the Inner Hebrides, “the Land of the Hills and the Glens and the Heroes.” Mr. Seton Gordon is a keen ...

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The Isle of Rum in the Inner Hebrides has been designated as Scotland’s first International Dark Sky Sanctuary for the quality of its night skies. The designation by Dark Sky International recognises ...