You can fly from Glasgow to the Uist archipelago of the Outer Hebrides, but I think you’d be missing much of the experience and pleasure of getting there. In July, it took more than a day and five ...

I am always drawn to islands—the more windswept and remote, the better. It turns out all my romantic visions were not so far from the truth, which I came to discover after finally traveling to the far ...

Prior to the 1266 Treaty of Perth, the Western Isles of Scotland were controlled by various Norse and Gaelic rulers who owed their allegiance to the Kings of Norway rather than the kings of Scotland.

The same conditions have created similar plant ecosystems on the west coast of Ireland, from Galway up to Donegal, the other Western Isles of Scotland, and the Orkneys and Shetlands. Scotland is home ...