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Top 10 Tips: driving the North Coast 500 Scotland

April 13, 2018 by Guest Author 3 Comments

In this article in the World Travel Blogger series, photographer Angus Matheson describes The North Coast 500, a memorable road trip he did with his wife in the Highlands of Scotland. North Coast 500 – the greatest motoring adventure in the British Isles North Coast 500 In 2015 the North Coast...

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Verdant Works Jute Museum Dundee Scotland - image zoe dawes

History, QT Review, Scotland

Quirky Travel Review: Verdant Works Jute Museum, Dundee

June 12, 2017 by Zoe Dawes 7 Comments

The Scottish city of Dundee is said to be built on ‘Jam, Jute and Journalism’ and a visit to Verdant Works Jute Museum introduced me to the Jute industry, about which I knew nothing. Housed in a former jute mill in the Blackness area of Dundee, it was opened in 1996 as...

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Blog trip, Food & Drink, Scotland

Food and Drink in Dundee – a city of delicious surprise

March 29, 2015 by Zoe Dawes 5 Comments

Historic Dundee on the Firth of Tay on the east coast of Scotland is having a renaissance after a tough period of change. I’d only been to Dundee once before, in the 1990s, so when Visit Scotland invited me to return as part of Scotland’s Year of Food and Drink,...

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