The Best of Scotland An Andrew Harper Signature Tour, September 18 – October 2, 2013 This 14-day Signature Tour encompasses the best of this ancient land. Start with Edinburgh, Scotland’s most magnificent city, its medieval Old Town perched on a rocky crag above the elegant Georgian New Town. See the Scottish Crown Jewels and perhaps go [...]
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The Best of Scotland: An Andrew Harper Signature Tour
For so small a region, Scotland boasts an astonishing variety of landscapes. It takes just a short drive (or train ride) to go from a pastoral setting of small villages and neatly tilled fields to the vast and empty wilds of the Highlands, where craggy, heather-clad mountains are scoured by rushing, peat-stained streams. This [...]
Video: Whisky Making in Islay, Scotland
The Isle of Islay (pronounced EYE-lah), the southernmost of the Inner Hebrides, is home to eight distilleries that produce immensely complex and appealing single malt whiskies. Islay’s malts are known for two things: their peaty smokiness, and a distinctive marine tang. Before being distilled, their malted barley is carefully smoked over a peat [...]
Further Scottish Adventures: The Islay Woollen Mill
For those who enjoyed my recent online article about Islay, Scotland, a place I hold near and dear to my heart, I also highly recommend the Islay Woollen Mill. The approach to this marvelous place is one of the least promising I can imagine, a rutted dirt road that leads to a building that [...]
July Hideaway Report Online: Scotland and Oregon
As always, this month’s Hideaway Report Online features evocative large-format slide shows and extensive additional coverage of Andrew Harper’s recent travels. Mr. Harper’s sojourns through Scotland and Oregon are brought vividly to life with a host of spectacular images. Exclusive online stories include Islay Distilleries, Glasgow Update and Astoria, Oregon, Reborn. View Current Issue
Note From the Road: Driving in Scotland
There are many places where I am quite comfortable driving. Give me a clear map and I’m fine. People ask if I have problems driving on the left, as I am currently doing in Scotland, and I generally don’t. Maintain a robust vigilance at all times, and that should see you through safely. I have [...]
‘I Know Where I’m Going!’ – A Charming Film for Scotland Lovers
For Christmas, a thoughtful friend, knowing my love of ancestral Scotland, gave me the DVD of a movie called “I Know Where I’m Going!” which I’d never seen (or heard of, to be honest). I finally watched it the other night. What a pleasure — on many levels. This is the tale of a headstrong [...]
Travel Photo of the Week: Edinburgh, Scotland
A street scene in Edinburgh, at the base of Edinburgh Castle. This week’s featured Harper Auction is a three-night stay in a Deluxe Suite at Edinburgh’s Balmoral (a $2,250 retail value) for a starting bid of $1,350. From the Harper Collection: “Distinguished Edwardian hotel at the eastern end of Princes Street, the city’s major thoroughfare, [...]
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