Scotiana

Hidden walled gardens of enormous size or strange shape, swaying semi-tropical plants on windy seasides, ferry journeys to secret plant paradises, packed woodlands of towering Himalayan treasures, sculptured stones carved with arcane riddles, vast expanses of aristocratic estates and small town gardens filled with tiny alpine treasures. These are just a few examples of the [...]

A good festival should be an encounter : with ideas, people, cultures and the landscape. It should look outwards but rejoice at the best of what’s local. Above all, it should be festive.
Adrian Turpin. Festival Director.
The very interesting and colourful Wigtown Book Festival programme which Catherine, the Arts Administrator and Children’s Programmer of this famous [...]

 
Don’t ask me to answer that question though I have more reasons to say YES than NO !
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A few years ago, we rented an old rustic cottage, in a very lonely place on the edge [...]

The Wigtown Ploughman Hotel

On our next Scottish itinerary, we’ll certainly not leave Scotland without spending a day or two in Wigtown. That’s really a nice little town and of course, as we’ve already mentioned it, a fabulous place to buy books, especially the old ones we are looking for desperately and which have been out [...]