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Business in the Highlands

Business

Owning a business in the Highlands involves plenty of challenges to offset the benefits. Quality of life in the area is remarkable. That attracts life style choice type individuals – people who don’t want a place in somebody else’s rat race. They tend to be adventurous, innovative, creative, pioneering individuals. And they need to be, [...]

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Discover Tain

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Tain is an excellent base for holidays in Scotland.  It sits at the north east corner of Ross-Shire in the Highlands. Probably best known as the home of the excellent Glenmorangie single malt whisky, the town has a rich history and prosperous future.  With a population of 3,500 it’s the largest town between Invergordon and [...]

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Jazz Returns to the Highlands

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Image via Wikipedia One Scottish Highlands attraction most people won’t know about is performing arts.  We have plenty to entertain us, and it’s not all bagpipes, drums and kilts.  The Highlands has drama. It also has Jazz. Real Jazz.  New York style Jazz For years now the Nairn Jazz Festival has attracted popular musicians from [...]

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New Riches in The Highlands – Maybe

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The next Scottish Highlands gold rush is about to start, soon hopefully. Did you know about the first? In 1868 there was a flood of prospectors arriving in Kildonan, a few miles east of Helmsdale, to pan for gold in the River Helmsdale, where this picture was taken. They must have been a hardy bunch. [...]

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A Sky You’ll Never Tire of Looking At

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The sky at Dornoch is worth a special visit. Even for the Scottish Highlands it’s unusual – a sky you’ll never tire of looking at. But what does that mean? Surely any sky is just the sky, – Right? Well not quite, and this slide show video shows why. We used to live in the [...]

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September Golf in the Highlands

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September is the best month to play golf in the Scottish Highlands. That’s my considered opinion, and I’ve now been living here for 10 years. People often ask when is the best time to visit the Highlands. In the past I’ve always suggested May – that’s when the courses start to firm up, the sun [...]

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Ullapool

Ullapool
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Ullapool, on the west coast, is a gateway to the Scottish Highlands, if you arrive by boat that is. It’s the home of the Ullapool ferry which connects the mainland with Stornaway on the Isle of Lewis. It’s also popular with sailers, with a safe accessible harbour and lots of facilities including bars, hotels, the [...]

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Lower Links Nature’s Treasurers

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If Natural History captures your interest the Scottish Highlands offers plenty of material to keep you engaged for months. It’s something to do with the geology, the climate and relative lack of people, I guess. Natural history isn’t something I’ve ever studied but I do know several who have, and for them the Lower Links [...]

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Discovering East Sutherland

Helmsdale

Sutherland in the Scottish Highlands is sometimes described as Europe’s last wilderness. Taking a road trip through the heart of Sutherland shows why. There’s nobody there. It’s wild, windy and empty, apart from some hardy souls who obviously enjoy their own company. Our video shows a selection of views as we tour inland, firstly East [...]

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Discovering Lairg

Lairg

Lairg seems the last point of civilisation as we drive into the wilderness of Sutherland. It seems almost every route, to everywhere goes through Lairg. We can be going to the northwest and Oldshoremore or Sandwood Bay, or Cape Wrath or Bettyhill, or Ben Hope or Ben Klibreck- doesn’t matter. Every time we go through, [...]

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