Information on Scotland you may not find in guidebooks - useful, real, sometimes amusing.

Here's an alphabetical list of topics (with links) covered in our blog section. In this archive you'll find the answer to important questions like whether or not seabirds get vertigo; techniques on how to creep up on butterflies very quietly; controversial material such as the Scottish Bigfoot (the Macyeti); insights into why Robert the Bruce should have employed a PR consultant, and many more topics (such as how not to climb Stac Pollaidh) - it's all below.

And some of it might even be useful if you're planning a trip in Scotland. If there is something you need to know that isn't covered below, Ask Dougal any time, he is happy to advise. The blog section is now part of www.scotlandinaweek.com where you'll find the latest entries.

Otherwise they're all written to be read in about the same time it takes to eat, say, two digestive biscuits, making them ideal for coffee breaks......

Aberdeen – Silver City with Golden Sands

Ardnamurchan – What’s the Point?
Balquhidder and Kirkton Glen
Bannockburn – with PR it could have been so different
Beaches of North-East Scotland
Ben Ledi in winter
Berwick-upon-Tweed – can we borrow it, please?
Birdy day
Bonny Scottish pictures. Och, jings etc
Butterfly stalking – a neglected Scottish field sport
Cattle droving and credit cards
Cairngorms – birdy day
Dogskin Boy – novel
Dolphins AND Knoydart – it’s all so iconic
Dundee – Mind Games – Sensation
Edinburgh – a snapshot of service
Edinburgh – East Lothian
Edinburgh – Pentland Hills
Edinburgh – the use of the apostrophe in Leith
Ell, going the extra. (Yes I did mean ‘ell’.)
Eriskay, colour
Extra Mile – remind me, what is it?
Fraserburgh – try the fish
Glenshee – Creag Leacach and Glas Maol
Glenshee in April April 2007
Greater Speyside – do the Borders matter?
Goat cuisine
Invisible crusts – what?
Keith, nearly an extra mile
Knoydart – global warming - July 07
Ladhar Bheinn
Ladhar Bheinn again
Lang Scots miles (and others)
Loch Ness and its monster publicity
Loch Ness Monster – no, it’s a gull picture
Lossiemouth – to boldly go…..
Morar, Sand and Steam
Mull of Kintyre
Natural Beauty Scotland on-line shop
Neep Space Encounter
Orkney ferry journey
Portsoy and the wee boats
Rannoch Views
Robert Burns and Bob Dylan
Robert Burns statue, Aberfeldy
Scotland and its slogans
Scotland – caa canny, tourists ahead
Scotland, how far can you see?
Scotland rocks (geologically speaking)
Scotland – weather
Scotland’s weather, Lossiemouth
Scottish Bigfoot – the Macyeti
Scottish wildlife
Sense of Plaice and other bad fish puns
Sir Walter Scott – wish he’d been racier
Stac Polly, Inverpolly – have a gneiss day
Stan Drew – golf inventor
Stanley Mills – who he?
Strontian self-catering
Tea-strainers, sign of an extra mile?
Toyota dealer goes the extra mile
Troup Head RSPB Reserve – do gannets get vertigo?
Ullapool and weather in the north-west
Where to Stay – Aviemore and around
Words to be banned in Scotland brochures