Tour the Great Houses & Castles of Cowal with Cowalfest
Cowalfest, the well established Walking and Arts Festival, offers – amongst many other things – the opportunity of visiting and having a guided tour of some of the castles and great buildings of Cowal....
View ArticleWalking with Poets to celebrate 175th birthday of Scotland’s pioneering...
John Muir, himself an author – who used his nature writing as part of groundbreaking campaigns to protect the environment – would have responded warmly to Walking with Poets.This celebratory enterprise...
View ArticleImpressive Argyll and the Isles Tourism workshop in Cowal
It was a genuine privilege yesterday afternoon to spend time in the focused tranquility of the Creggans Inn in a roomful of Cowal’s tourism sector operators – and just listen and learn from people who...
View ArticleRestoration to original can be of questionable value
They didn’t always have good taste in the past – no more than is the case today. Conspicuous consumption has always been with us – some of it loudly conspicuous; and today’s Russian oligarchs’...
View ArticleRanging around volunteering with UK National Parks’ Volunteer of the Year
For Argyll reported recently that Stuart Crawford, five years a volunteer in the ranger and conservation services at Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park, had been made Volunteer of the Year in...
View ArticleGolden Gates opened – a bridge to the Benmore experience from Glen Massan
Sir Peter Hutchison, Chairman of the Younger [Benmore] Trust [left above] was at Benmore Botanic Garden on Frid12th June 2015 to mark the return of the‘Golden Gates – one of the most cherished...
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