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"On my Christmas wish list, Mum, is a Winter holiday in Glencoe. Is that ok?"
The photo is of the Pap of Glencoe, taken in November last year from near the old pier at Glennachulish.Here is an odd idea for a Christmas gift. If you are Mum, you could send your son/daughter/family on a Winter break holiday in Glencoe.If they are...
Skiing in Glencoe saved for this Winter
I hope the new owner of the Glencoe Ski Centre does not mind my pinching his ski map to illustrate this great news. Andy Meldrum, who already owns the activity centre at the Spitall of Glenshee has bought it and plans to extend it into a major all ye...
Christmas and New Year available in our Glencoe cottage
Have the most peaceful, lovely and romantic Christmas or New Year imaginable. Our cottage at Kentallen, just around the corner from Glencoe is available at present. It sleeps four, it is warm and cosy, it is fully modernised. It has the Holly Tree h...
Wedding in Appin, near Glencoe
Wedding in Appin, Kentallen wedding, Honeymoon cottage Glencoe, Duror church weddingWe love it when folks get married fom the cottage or come to us for their honeymoon. It is, after all, one of the most romantic spots in the world.Hi John, I hope you...
HOW TO RE-INVENT VISITSCOTLAND TO PLEASE NEARLY EVERYONE
Look, I'm not an expert and I'll get a lot of this wrong. But I'll bet that most of it will be right.The Oban Times has just reported that the new local visitor centre at Mallaig (pop 797) has just processed 3,000 visitors a month. It is staffed by l...
HOW DID VISITSCOTLAND GET INTO THIS STATE?
On a hot day in June, Gillian and I thought to stay on Tiree for a few days. We had heard about it so often on the weather forecasts, we just wondered....We got a Scottish Tourist Board catalogue. The Island looked nice. The book showed three self ca...
