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Morangie House Hotel

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The Morangie House Hotel is popular with visitors. It’s close to the A9 in Tain so easy to get to and leave from. Views over the Dornoch Firth and the hills beyond leave us in no doubt of where we are. The large restaurant and bar are popular with locals and holiday makers alike for [...]

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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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Northern Counties Cup Returns to Royal Dornoch

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The Northern Counties Cup, one of golf’s oldest and most prestigious club competitions returned to Royal Dornoch Golf Club this weekend. The competition is unique for several reasons – locations, format and history. The full story was explained to me by Denis Bethune – President of Royal Dornoch Golf Club, shown here in the clubhouse [...]

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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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Visiting Dornoch Cathedral

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Dornoch Cathedral is everything you’d expect from a place of worship, and a lot more. No visit to the Scottish Highlands can be complete without an hour in this very special building. Here is the very centre of nearly 800 years history in this part of the world where the north met the south, often [...]

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A Walk Around Dornoch

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Dornoch is described elsewhere in this blog as Paradise on the 58th. Parallel. The video at the foot of the page shows views of the town in August sunshine. Watch it and you’ll begin to understand why. A quiet walk around can take 10 minutes or a couple of hours. Especially when the weather is [...]

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Highlands Golf At Its Best

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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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Views of Royal Dornoch Golf Club Course

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Royal Dornoch golf course is much more attractive than anybody can describe. Even the best photographs can’t do its splendour full justice. But this slide show does present some of the many sides to the golf course’s magic. Post Footer automatically generated by Add Post Footer Plugin for wordpress.

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Why You Should Visit the Scottish Highlands

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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

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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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