Kirkwall is also a great base for entertainment, listen to local music and enjoy some Orkney ale in the local pubs or nightclub. Here we have listed only Kirkwall within Orkney.
Your hosts, Carol & Bill, extend a warm Scottish welcome to guests from near and far. Binniemyre is a large Victorian mansion with a cosy cottage feel set in its own grounds on the outskirts of Galashiels.
As you venture down the Strath, you will see some lovely building made out of the local stone. The area changes quite dramatically. If you go down the Strath when the Gorse, Rowans or Laburnum is flowering/berrying you will experience the true beauty of the area.
As Scotland's national opera company, Scottish Opera is committed to bringing the widest range of opera, performed to highest standards, to the maximum audience throughout the country with one of the busiest touring calandars in the opera world.
The Sacred Scotland theme promoted by Scotland's Churches Scheme focuses on the wish of both visitors and local communities to be able to access our wonderful range of church buildings in a meaningful way - whether the visit be occasioned by spiritual or heritage motivation or both.