It will soon be time to say Happy New Year to all our readers, or as they may say in Scotland - Happy Hogmanay! So Hogmanay is just a Scottish word for New Year's Eve? Far from it! ...

The Scottish know how to have a good party - in Scotland both January 1st and 2nd are public holidays (so as to offer good recovery time from Hogmanay) and the national day, St Andrews ...

There are literally hundreds of good reasons to choose to Scotland as your vacation destination so you'll understand my concern when I was asked to compile just FIVE for this blog ...