
An Overnight in Edinburgh | Bedtime Stories With Novotel
An overnight stay at Novotel Edinburgh Centre, plus some new reading material for Max

Well, I don't know about you, but I've just had the most surreal Easter holiday of my life. OF MY LIFE, people. Let's see... On the first Monday of the school holidays, ...


One of the questions I get most often from visitors to Scotland is what on earth they should pack for their trip. I'm very flattered by this question, because it implies ...

When Terry told me we were going to be spending the last few days of our Highland vacation at a place called The Whispering Pine Lodge, I was almost beside ...

An overnight stay at Novotel Edinburgh Centre, plus some new reading material for Max

Dundee is one of those cities I've driven through many times, but had never actually stopped in - so when we stayed at Piperdam Lodges last week, I was keen ...

As you've probably gathered by now, we've become big fans of log-cabin style staycations this year: partly because they give us the opportunity to explore parts of Scotland we've never ...

Almond Valley Heritage Centre has been right on our doorstep for years now, and has been recommended to us by... well, by pretty much everyone we know, basically. Terry and ...

When I said that Highland Heather Lodges, where we had a three-day stay last month, had a ton of different activities right on its doorstep, I really wasn’t joking. Auchingarrich Wildlife Centre was literally just a five minute drive from our cabin, which placed it pretty high on our list of things to do in Perthshire…

As you might have seen from my Instagram stories lately, Terry and I spent this weekend exploring the beautiful island of Arran, off the west coast of Scotland. We were on ...

Want to know how to really annoy a Scot? Well, trotting out any of these tired old Scottish stereotypes is one way to do it: here are 11 of them ...

Over the weekend, Terry and I noticed that we were starting to get some breaks in the non-stop downpour we've been experiencing for the past few weeks months. At first ...