Anyone who knows their ‘Tam o Shanter’ – that great narrative poem by Robert Burns – will remember the phrase ‘the lang ...

Here’s an almost extra mile. It isn’t on the site because it happened some years ago but I thought I should share it with you as it illust...

I didn’t think this topic would surface again, but thanks to the 8th February entry (the first-ever) and my comments on how seeing a tea straine...

I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve written in guides something like ‘Scotland isn’t a big place. For instance, you ca...

Just a thought, but isn’t it interesting that in the very early days of this site, two people have already nominated eating places which were pl...

You have to start somewhere with a brand new shiny blog, so it might be good to start with what we had in mind with the extra mile. It seems to be all...