There are road trips you drive to get somewhere, and there are road trips you drive because the road is the somewhere. Scotland’s North Coast 500 is firmly the second kind — a 516-mile loop that starts and ends at Inverness Castle, launched in 2015, and has become one of the great driving routes of … Read more
Edinburgh is really two cities sharing one skyline, and three days is the sweet spot for a first visit: enough for the castle and the Royal Mile, the Georgian calm of the New Town, the climb up Arthur’s Seat, and a half-day at Leith’s waterfront. This is the itinerary I’d hand a friend who’d never … Read more
Edinburgh is really two cities sharing one skyline. On the volcanic rock above, the medieval Old Town: the castle, the Royal Mile, closes and wynds that have barely changed in four centuries. Below and to the north, the Georgian New Town: wide streets, crescents, and garden squares laid out when Edinburgh decided to become the … Read more