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SCOTTISH TO THE KILT

CROFTS & CASTLES

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Nothing quite beats staying in a rented Scottish croft for a week or two,
whether in the small village of Achiltibue on the Coigach Peninsula in the western Highlands, where dusk is magical...


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and your only guest is a sheepdog...

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or on the Isle of Skye,
where, as the light turns golden, you open a bottle of wine...


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and sit outside until the sun sets.

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Alternatively, you can stay in splendor at Kinloch Castle, on the Isle of Rhum.

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Here, a chambermaid  will make up your bed.  Food is served in style.
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 You relax in  front of a cozy fire -  then comes the cocktail hour.

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And we mustn’t forget Lady Monica. Like everything else in this place,
she’s kept dust-free.

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Speaking of castles, what could be more iconic than Edinburgh Castle?

SHEEP & CATTLE
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Sheep are everywhere,

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even on the roads.
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And so are cows.

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Highland cattle - an ancient Scottish breed, with long horns and wavy pelts.

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Sheep are for shearing.
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Sheep dog trials:  a gentle, bucolic, competitive sport in which dogs herd sheep
around a field,
as directed by their handlers.  
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The dogs have arrived...
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the audience is in place, and the games can begin.


WHISKY GALORE
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The pagoda-shaped kilns of the Highland Park Distillery.

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Old-fashioned floor malting, Alan, the plant operator...

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and Jim Robertson, product manager and taster.
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Although one of the very best, Highland Park is not exactly the only distillery producing single malt, the elixir of Scotland - enjoyed singly, or in pubs everywhere.

ISLES
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Heading for the Isle of Mull, in the Inner Hebrides...

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to Tobermory, the capital, and a B&B, with an unusual, but most affectionate house pet.

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A pint on the Isle of Skye..
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a standing stone on Colonsay...

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and Rackwick Beach on Hoy, in the Orkney Islands.

THE HIGHLANDS
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Glencoe, in the Scottish highlands, has a rather bloody history. It was here, in the 1690s,
that the Campbells massacred the MacDonalds.


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A Highland Piper...

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and two fishermen. Like golf, fly fishing is a Scottish passion.


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