by Katie & Catherine | Aug 20, 2015 | Fascinating Facts
Get to grips with Clans and Tartans in the Scottish Highlands One of the most confusing and hard to decipher aspects of Scottish culture is the role of clans and tartans. Curious visitors often enquire as to what the relevance they have in the modern world. Are they...
by Katie & Catherine | Jun 23, 2015 | Scottish Recipes
Learn to Make Scotch Pancakes My first memories of scotch pancakes, was rolling up at the holiday caravan (after a 10 hour drive) on the Ardnamurchan peninsula and the farmer’s wife taking us into the farmhouse kitchen and feeding us until we burst! For us townies,...
by Katie & Catherine | Jun 11, 2015 | Fascinating Facts
Find Out What it Was Like For Crofting Communities For many years Gairloch’s cottars, tenant farmers, and their families lived in crudely-built one-roomed houses, with a byre for the animals attached to one end. These houses were grouped together in small settlements....
by Katie & Catherine | May 28, 2015 | Scottish Recipes
Ready for a Taste Sensation? For those of you who don’t know the culinary traditions of North-east Scotland, the buttery, also known as a rowie, is an individually sized flat bread made of flour, yeast, salt and a huge amount of whipped lard. It is eaten usually at...
by Katie & Catherine | May 3, 2015 | Fascinating Facts
A Tourist Attraction That Doesn’t Shout Often tourist attractions announce themselves to the world, “look at me” they proclaim in a grandiose way. Seldom will they live up to the hype and often what is fashionable in one era soon finds itself out of favour in...
