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Exclusive guide to the best holiday destinations in Scotland, independent reviews from award-winning travel writers

Uig Hotel

Uig Hotel, Isle of Skye

After 50 years of visiting Skye, Terry Marsh finally gets to stay at the Uig Hotel and finds it worth the wait.

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Fairmont St Andrews Hotel SAB Hotel Exterior 1

Fairmont St Andrews Hotel. A glorious Scottish welcome at the home of golf.

If your ball heads towards the cold dark sea, look beyond for consolation, towards a lone fishing boat tossing on the waves. This is the boat that will catch lobster for your supper in the Fairmont St Andrew’s Bar and Grill.

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Knockinaam Lodge

Knockinaam Lodge. Discover luxury lodging in Dumfries and Galloway

This was the country house, in which Winston Churchill and General Dwight Eisenhower, secretly met to plan what became known as the D-Day landings.

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Guide to Mull Standing stones Glen Gorm

Insider Guide to Mull. Discover the very best Mull has to offer.

Even on the gloomiest of days, the beauty of Mull will out, and the rewards for patience and persistence are memories that will last a lifetime and bring a joy that will make the heartache.

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The Kitchin. Leith

Set in a converted whisky bonded warehouse in Leith, the eponymous Kitchin combines British seasonal cuisine with the techniques of French cooking

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Terry Marsh braves a visit to the famous Rosslyn Chapel and finds there's more to it than cracking codes.

Rosslyn Chapel. Experience a piece of history without code cracking

Long before Dan Brown and the Da Vinci Code heaped attention on this extravagantly ornate chapel set on a low hill above Roslin Glen in the Midlothian countryside south of Edinburgh it had been a popular destination for generations of curious travellers.

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