Kincardine and Mearns
The historic county, also known as Kincardineshire, is centred on the lovely harbour town of Stonehaven and runs south to the North Esk at whose mouth you’ll find the Sands and nature reserve of...
Savouring Scotland
The historic county, also known as Kincardineshire, is centred on the lovely harbour town of Stonehaven and runs south to the North Esk at whose mouth you’ll find the Sands and nature reserve of...
Visitors to Scotland are sometimes surprised by the number of churches that have been repurposed to anything from a museum or visitors centre to a library, climbing wall or even a pub/nightclub. Sometimes in...
This is the second in a series of post about Aberdeen/Aberdeenshire. Centred roughly on Inverurie and extending to Old Meldrum, home of the Glen Garioch Distrillery, further east to the major attractions of Haddo...
by Debra Storr · Published 5th October 2017 · Last modified 11th October 2017
This is the first of a series looking at Aberdeen/Aberdeenshire. I can’t get all of Aberdeen/Aberdeenshire into one post as apart from the ‘stars’ of Dunnotar Castle and Royal Deeside, there is so much...
John Aberdein 1956: the nation is reeling with daft Yankee ideas, resistant ‘pinkos’, sex, atoms – and fish. In a country yet to decide the nature of its history, what is the future of...
This post covers the area from Inverness and the Moray Firth all the way down to the Firth of Forth. There is a huge variety here: the Highland Fault line runs from Stonehaven just south of...
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