From mist-veiled lochs to dolphin-streaked sounds, a Hebridean cruise is the most soul-stirring way to explore Scotland’s wild west, says Lewis Nunn. Hosting just eight guests, Lucy Mary evokes the ...

An antique ketch in a force eight gale? A first-time sailor grabs a rope and hangs on for dear life in the high seas off north-west Scotland I am holding on hard to the 112-year-old Bessie Ellen. We ...

Writers including JM Barrie, Compton Mackenzie, George Orwell and Robert Louis Stevenson spent formative periods on the remote, wild, romantic Hebrides Jura drifts off mainland Argyll in a sea ...

I am no stranger to long walks – I have done quite a few, including Jordan north to south and crossing Morocco and the Sahara. However, I am a relatively new convert to doing it alone, self-guided and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Britain is packed with beautiful places, from the quaint Cotswolds to scenic sandy stretches like Bournemouth Beach, but for ...

Like the smoky whisky that won Scotland international renown, it takes just one taste of the Hebridean islands for many wealthy tourists to want a second home there. The Inner Hebrides—a collection of ...

A RARE collection of vintage photographs of South Uist by celebrated US photographer Paul Strand has gone on display at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery. The elegiac images of everyday life in ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The journey’s end at the Butt of Lewis Wind-lashed and weary-legged, we cycle up a headland carpeted in lush ...

“We can’t stay here too long,” Jamie Boyle told us when we stepped out of the car. He had driven us to one of the most remote spots in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides, a tiny island called Vallay that ...