The ancient struggle between Campbells and MacDonalds to control Islay and Kintyre features heavily in BBC Scotland’s offering for St Andrew’s Day The film, Scotland’s Greatest Warrior (Friday November 30th on BBC2) reveals how the Marquis of Montrose, a military genius, led an outnumbered army to victory in six successive battles during the civil wars of the 17th century. Some call him the greatest general that Scotland has ever produced and General Montgomery, commander of the D-Day land forces in 1944, quoted Montrose’s poetry to his men on the eve of the Normandy landings: He either … [Read more...] about Marquis of Montrose – Scotland’s greatest warrior
Archives for November 2012
Scotland From the Air Video
As much as I like photography, watching a video is another great way to learn more about a certain travel destination, in this case of course Scotland. STV Scotland has a huge amount of interesting videos on Youtube and Scotland Revealed is one of my favourites. Scotland Revealed celebrates Scotland's stunning landscape and landmarks from the air. In this first episode I've embedded here, presenter Vanessa Collingridge starts her journey in Edinburgh, from its volcanic beginnings to the building of the glorious New Town. She then travels through the agricultural Borders and follows Glasgow's … [Read more...] about Scotland From the Air Video
The Pretty Village of Crail in East Neuk of Fife
During our spring tour when we travelled Scotland in a Motorhome, we pretty much covered the entire country, we returned south via Beauly and Aberdeenshire. At a campsite in Tarland, east of Aberdeen, we had a nice chat with someone and he told us to if we were to head south to visit the village of Crail, just south of St. Andrews. Now St. Andrews was on our "To Do List" but I had never heard of Crail. So the next day we had quite a long drive ahead, from the campsite at Tarland via Aberdeen and Stonehaven, where we visited Dunnotar Castle, all the way south to Dundee and St. Andrews. We … [Read more...] about The Pretty Village of Crail in East Neuk of Fife
