British holiday information

Inspired by the 250th anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns, Homecoming Scotland 2009 is drawing to close and the finale weekend, which takes place from 26 – 30 November, promises a massive programme of events. The year kicked off in style in January with the Burns celebrations and has seen more than 400 events [...]

Do you have a favourite Burns song? Or are you unfamiliar with the works of Robert Burns? Would you like to hear some of them and vote for your favourite? Well now’s your chance courtesy of an online poll run by the Scotsman to discover the favourite Burns song. There are links so that you [...]

With just four days to go until the start of Homecoming 2009, preparations are well underway to greet visitors to Scotland. If you’re flying in to Scotland this week you’ll notice the addition of the new ‘Welcome to Scotland’ signs that are starting to spring up at all the airports in time for the official [...]

The big Homecoming Scotland 2009 celebrations kick off next weekend, the 250th anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns. This major drive to give a huge boost to Scottish tourism invites anyone and everyone with even a hint of Scottish ancestry to descend on Scotland this year to celebrate ‘all things Scottish’. Although, even if [...]

I love Scotland, in fact I’ve had some wonderful Scottish holidays and the scenery is absolutely breathtaking. If you’ve never been there before, you must find the time to go. Not made your mind up about next year’s holiday? Consider taking a holiday in Scotland during 2009 – there’s so much planned for Scotland’s very [...]

A review is underway this week into whether the Scottish capital city of Edinburgh should retain its world heritage status. The old and new towns of Edinburgh were granted world heritage status in 1995. However, concern surrounds the Caltongate development in the old town, the rebuilding of the Cowgate fire, changes to the Leith waterfront [...]