http://www.extramilescotland.co.uk/rssblog.asp The EXTRAMILESCOTLAND Blog The old guide-book’s title was ‘Aberdeen, the Silver City with the Golden Sands’. Published in 1950, it was in a box of books my father had bought from a roup (Scots: auction.) I wan http://www.extramilescotland.co.uk/blog.asp?blogid=99 http://www.extramilescotland.co.uk/blog.asp?blogid=99 Yes, I’ve had my share of promoting the ‘four seasons in one day’ copywriter’s cop-out cliché. Truth to tell, I used to hate having to give that ‘pack flexibly and http://www.extramilescotland.co.uk/blog.asp?blogid=98 http://www.extramilescotland.co.uk/blog.asp?blogid=98 Would I accompany a chum who was taking part in a British Trust for Ornithology bird survey? Any excuse for a big walk in the hills. Oh yes, he’d been allocated a high-level square or two in the http://www.extramilescotland.co.uk/blog.asp?blogid=97 http://www.extramilescotland.co.uk/blog.asp?blogid=97 Funny places, the waiting areas of main car dealerships when you’re filling in a few minutes until they’ve finished the servicing of your car. That particular and expensive smell of new ve http://www.extramilescotland.co.uk/blog.asp?blogid=96 http://www.extramilescotland.co.uk/blog.asp?blogid=96 It is more than twenty years since I paid my respects to that old rogue and folk hero Rob Roy Macgregor at his final resting place by the old kirk in Balquhidder Glen. When we visited, on the Highland http://www.extramilescotland.co.uk/blog.asp?blogid=95 http://www.extramilescotland.co.uk/blog.asp?blogid=95 (For even more atmosphere see the clip at the end of this blog) Something troubled my nostrils – a disconcerting whiff. There it was again. The view from the summit was amazing – a panora http://www.extramilescotland.co.uk/blog.asp?blogid=94 http://www.extramilescotland.co.uk/blog.asp?blogid=94 I like to think there’s a tourist office somewhere in Scotland where a dusty old executive sits and thumbs through biographies and histories. This is the Anniversaries and Centenaries Officer at http://www.extramilescotland.co.uk/blog.asp?blogid=93 http://www.extramilescotland.co.uk/blog.asp?blogid=93 Inspired by a recent Tracking Tourism blog at blog.highlandbusinessresearch.com/2008/04/01/once-more-with-feeling/ on how you convey the feel of a place, here are some pictures. Sometimes it isn&rsquo http://www.extramilescotland.co.uk/blog.asp?blogid=92 http://www.extramilescotland.co.uk/blog.asp?blogid=92 The problem with spending your life supplying information on Scotland is that you can get a bit smug and think you’ve seen it all. Well, here’s a confession. I’ve just been to Stanle http://www.extramilescotland.co.uk/blog.asp?blogid=91 http://www.extramilescotland.co.uk/blog.asp?blogid=91 Moody, atmospheric, haunted. Note to self: must go to see the new Culloden Visitor Centre. But what about other battlefields? There are plenty to choose from in Scotland. Picture the scene. It is http://www.extramilescotland.co.uk/blog.asp?blogid=90 http://www.extramilescotland.co.uk/blog.asp?blogid=90 Go and see The Water Horse, now on general release from Sony Pictures. It’s the latest manifestation of the Highland kelpie legend that assumed its modern form in the mid-20th century when the I http://www.extramilescotland.co.uk/blog.asp?blogid=89 http://www.extramilescotland.co.uk/blog.asp?blogid=89 We are delighted to have been invited to participate in Tourism Innovation Day 2008, as an example of tourism and technology working together and as one of the leading practitioners taking part i http://www.extramilescotland.co.uk/blog.asp?blogid=88 http://www.extramilescotland.co.uk/blog.asp?blogid=88