Key2ScotlandTours

03/02/2023

Billed as a "misty Scottish Stonehenge with fewer visitors" Kilmartin Glen, with its concentration of Neolithic and Bronze Age remains, features on the New York Times global travel list for 2023.

A misty Scottish Stonehenge, with all of the mystery and far fewer visitors.

15/08/2022

Had a great weekend doing researching for a tour I'm taking early September which took me to parts of Angus and Perthshire I'd not explored before - all in search of Pictish stones..and I found them in kirkyards, in museums and by the roadside!

09/07/2022

A different way to see Urquhart castle .. from a high-speed rib..thank you Beastie Boats 👏

27/06/2022

Thanks to a diversion to our route to Skye our Rabbies bus had to make a diversion and in doing so I managed to sample my first oyster at this amazing farm..simply magical 😊

02/06/2022

Delighted to be in Edinburgh castle(purely by accident guiding a family visiting from the States) when the 42 gun salute went off at noon..

26/03/2022

You might be forgiven for thinking this I was taken in Athens Greece..but this was taken
From the Royal High School, one of the iconic buildings of Edinburgh, the Athens of the North..very privileged to have a tour of the Royal High School today by the Hidden Door team ready for the Festival starting on 9th June - very exciting..

13/03/2022

I've had a wonderful week guiding Dr Elsie Inglis walking tours and meeting such interesting people, some with their own stories to tell about their family links with the Scottish Womens' Hospitals

08/03/2022

I was interested to know the origins of International Women's Day as it feels like a fairly recent initiative....so I was surpised to find that it dates from 1917 when Russian women began a strike for "bread and peace" in response to the death of over 2 million Russian soldiers in World War 1. The women continued to strike until four days later the Czar was forced to abdicate and the provisional Government granted women the right to vote. This day on the Gregorian calendar in use elsewhere was March 8.

27/02/2022

Called ‘The Woman with the Torch’ because the residents of the tenement where she visited the sick clubbed together to buy her a torch so she could better navigate the dark, dank stairways at night.

20/02/2022

An article about A Statue for Elsie Inglis in last week's Scotsman. Honoured to be part of this and running a series of walking tours with 2 other professional Scottish Blue Badge Guides.
https://app.scotsman.com/full_page_image/page-19-1366/content.html?fbclid=IwAR3bf_YNtYYHyKuf9aAjjqesnEfqbvB9z2v5x-7MiUIq5kL0aZB-KFc5hiU