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 ...

Scotland’s treasure trove of more than 800 islands – just under 100 inhabited – make up over 10 per cent of Europe’s ...

Off Scotland’s west coast, Iona was one of medieval Britain’s earliest Christian centres. Now, it offers space for stillness, ...

From mist-veiled lochs to dolphin-streaked sounds, a Hebridean cruise is the most soul-stirring way to explore Scotland’s wild west, says Lewis Nunn. Hosting just eight guests, Lucy Mary evokes the ...

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 ...

Big cruise lines are rolling out their 2015-16 itineraries on luxury ships -- and so are new super-small ones, which operate just one boat on cruises to Scottish islands. Hebrides Cruises isn’t the ...

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 ...

White sand beaches probably aren’t first thing that come to mind when thinking of Scotland. That honor probably belongs to golf, or whisky. But this is a country full of surprises, and even if the ...

On an empty road behind the sweep of Scarista Beach, where ocean winds were flattening the dune grasses, stood a lone white house. It could have been a drawing from a storybook: steep-roofed, a little ...

An isolated archipelago may seem an unlikely golf destination, but both history and location have made it just that. The eighth hole of the Askernish Golf Club on South Uist, an island in Scotland’s ...