the highlands

Forget the Cuts We Need a Smaller Public Sector

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Public sector organisation and provision of services is bad for business. Cutting back the burgeoning public sector in Scotland will be essential for reversing the country’s endemic economic decline. And the Highlands desperately needs a change, to allow private sector businesses to flourish. Until we get that about turn in direction, declines in living standards, [...]

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What a Mess Wantage

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The difference between the Highlands and the South of England is immeasurable. And it’s not just in the lifestyle. It’s mostly about the environment, which includes the lifestyle, I guess, and certainly influences it. Quality of life in the Highlands is one aspect where the grass is definitely not greener on the other side of [...]

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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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Staying at the Dornoch Castle Hotel

Accommodation

The Dornoch Castle Hotel has a lot of advantages when you’re looking for somewhere to stay in the Scottish Highlands. It’s easy to get to and within a day’s drive of everywhere in the north. It’s in the centre of Dornoch and offers a range of accommodation to fit most budgets. The Dornoch Castle hotel [...]

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A Walk Around Dornoch

Dornoch

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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Morning Walks on the Beach

Beaches

A walk on the beach in the morning is a great start to any day, especially when the beach is at Dornoch in the Highlands, and especially when the weather is as kind as it was this morning. By the kids playground there were 4 RVs – caravans with a driver on the front. They’d [...]

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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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Kitesurfing Capital of the Highlands

Beaches

Kitesurfing has never, to my knowledge, been listed as a major attraction in the Highlands of Scotland. We’re all used to the golf, the shooting, the fishing, the walking and the whisky. But not Kitesurfing. As these pictures will show both Highlands tourism organisations and Kitesurfers should be talking about Dornoch as a major venue. [...]

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North West Scotland in June

Beaches

Beaches in Scotland are awesome -at least in the North they are. Invariably in the Highlands beaches are covered in soft sand, clean and pretty much empty, for miles. But this particular beach is simply stunning. It’s out of the way so you have to make a special trip to it, and there’s a short [...]

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