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Brora’s Golfing Paradise

Brora
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Brora golf course is a fine test of your golfswing. It’s also a test of your resilience, stamina and concentration. Paradoxically its also the fairest golf course I ever played. Uniquely the better your golfswing the harder the course gets. That’s unusual but entirely proper. At Brora everybody, locals and holiday makers alike can enjoy [...]

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Views of Brora

Brora

Brora is pretty far north, and in Highlands terms also quite big.  At one time most of the coal for this part of the country came into  what was a busy harbour. There were fishing boats too, and some industry. To the south of the town was Hunters factory.  They made the highest quality tweeds [...]

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Highlands Golf At Its Best

Dornoch

Image via Wikipedia Golf is a pastime of the people in the Highlands and in August it reaches a crescendo with open competitions organised in all four of the courses in East Sutherland and the one just across the bridge. In Fabulous Month of Golf Ahead Robin Wilson of the Northern Times describes the frenzy [...]

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Why You Should Visit the Scottish Highlands

Attractions

The attractions of the Scottish Highlands aren’t necessarily those you would expect, and certainly aren’t limited to castle ruins, pipe bands, tartan and haggis. That’s the impression you’ll get visiting Edinburgh’s Royal Mile, but there’s a lot more to the Highlands, both attractions for tourists and attractions for immigrants, like us. But where exactly is [...]

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Discount Holiday Golf With Dornoch Firth Golf Pass

Dornoch

Image via Wikipedia Get discount on the cost of your golf this summer’s holiday with a Dornoch Firth Golf Pass. Holiday golf is one of life’s great pleasures. Weekend golf is great, but squeezed in between the working weeks and subject to the demands of the kids schedules and the weather, we rarely get time [...]

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Royal Golf Hotel in Dornoch Re-opens

Dornoch

Plans to re-open the Royal Golf Hotel adjacent to the clubhouse and first tee at Royal Dornoch Golf Club will be welcome all over Sutherland, and in lots of places around the world. We first stayed in the Royal Golf Hotel back in 1983 – our first visit to find out why Tom Watson had [...]

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And Tonight’s Malt Is Clynelish

Whisky

The Clynelish 14 year old single malt was a real find in the liquor store. We rarely see it outside of the distillery. Even better was they had it on special so it was cheap too. Slainte! This is really unusual, for anywhere really, but especially for the south of England. I just came across [...]

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