... except the Kyles and Western Isles

The original seat of the clan MacNeil of Barra, Kisimul Castle, is one of the most distinctive landmarks of the Western Isles and, fully r...

When I was a child, in the early 70s, we used to go on family holidays to Gairloch in Wester Ross. Every evening, we would go down to the pi...

A while back I wrote about what used to be understood by the words ferries and steamers  and more recently highlighted this postcard of the ...

Until the 1880s, the Outer Hebrides (except Stornoway) and many of the remoter Inner Hebrides (e.g. Coll and Tiree) were dependent for commu...

Part 1 here . Picking up the story from Part 5 , in the years after the First World War (1914-18) when motoring began to take off, the car...

I read somewhere recently that Google Earth is of great assistance to archaeologists researching sites in parts of Afghanistan which are of...

As usual, I'm probably the last to hear about this but if you haven't yet, Google Street View has been rolled out to the West Highla...