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  • A sport for kings at Falkland Palace

    June 7, 2014 /

    What was the exciting sport enjoyed by Mary Queen of Scots? And just how did I end up playing it myself?

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    Tarbert – the ‘place of portage’

    August 12, 2018

    In search of MacMarquis’s chin

    August 26, 2023

    Caisteal nan Coin Duibh – ‘the Castle of the Black Dogs’

    February 11, 2018
  • Falkland Palace: power and glory

    June 5, 2014 /

    Sitting on the quiet main street of Falkland in Fife is one of the most remarkable Scottish castles, brainchild of the brilliant but ill-fated Stewart kings

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    Camas nan Geall: ‘the Bay of the Strangers’

    July 20, 2015

    A folk tale, a battlefield, and a witch’s leap

    July 19, 2020

    Iona: Dun I and the Well of Eternal Youth

    May 1, 2023
  • In a nutshell: the Linlithgow Palace fountain

    May 14, 2014 /

    This ornate fountain welcomed Mary of Guise, bride of James V, to her new home; and in 1745 it flowed with wine in the presence of Bonnie Prince Charlie!

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    Dunyvaig Castle, Isle of Islay

    January 9, 2012

    St Andrew’s Auld Kirk, North Berwick

    December 9, 2014

    Looking at crannogs

    April 21, 2014
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