Like the smoky whisky that won Scotland international renown, it takes just one taste of the Hebridean islands for many wealthy tourists to want a second home there. The Inner Hebrides—a collection of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Known for hilltop castles, abundant rainfall, and rolling green valleys speckled with flocks of sheep, Scotland far exceeds its ...

Colonsay is a roughly 10-by-2-mile island in Scotland's Inner Hebrides. It has a bookstore, two galleries, two distilleries making gin, a general store and the Colonsay House, a Georgian home owned by ...

As the wind whips against the rugged cliffs and the ocean whispers stories of old, the islands of the Inner and Outer Hebrides off the west coast of Scotland exude an almost mythical charm. This vast ...

“Look, another rainbow,” I say, pointing out one of the side portholes of our small ship to a perfect striped arc crossing water and sky. My husband responds with a mock snore. Rainbows are common in ...

After wrenching free of my habitual moorings, last summer I stood below the whitewashed stone wall of an old farmhouse on a remote Scottish isle. I stared out at the same wild, coastal view that a ...

PERTINACITY in an endeavour to carry out the results of a fixed idea has almost always been regarded as a virtue, even when the principle involved has seemed to be hopelessly mistaken, and thus the ...

Private islands might seem like the reserve of A-listers (think Branson’s Necker Island, George and Amal Clooney’s island on the Thames, or Beyoncé’s tropical paradise in the Florida Keys). But you ...

The Isle of Rum in the Inner Hebrides has been designated as Scotland’s first International Dark Sky Sanctuary for the quality of its night skies. The designation by Dark Sky International recognises ...

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