Heart of Scotland Holidays

29/05/2025

Not often you see the bottom of the canal!

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25/05/2025

Exciting times for us here at Heart of Scotland Holidays: we took our first direct booking through our website this week, as well as the first bookings through our own AirBnB and Booking accounts (until now we've been listed only through an agent). May is our first month to hit 100 occupied nights (April so nearly made it, finishing on 98), and June already has bookings for over 100, so things are definitely going in the right direction. We also have all six units occupied at the moment, which is great.

Onwards and upwards!

14/05/2025

Our local heritage railway is always a good day out

Thomas is returning to Bo'ness & Kinneil Railway on Sat 17th & Sun 18th May 🚂

Spend the day creating family memories and celebrating 80 years of Thomas!

Book your tickets here 👉 https://bit.ly/4m1YgVo

14/05/2025

The local mental health support group had a visit from two of the community policing team last night. It was an interesting opportunity for the group to learn a bit more about what the community policing team do, and for them to find out about somewhere they can point people who need support.

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MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS WEEK

PC Scott and PC Boyle from the Grangemouth community policing team recently joined the "Come Chat About That" mental health peer support group as part of Mental Health Awareness Week.

PC Scott said "It was fantastic to meet with the group, and we were welcomed with open arms to speak about mental health issues and what the Police can do. They spoke about their experiences with the Police, and there were multiple learning points where we can improve."

Remember, if you need us, you can contact us on 999 in an emergency or 101 for non-emergencies.

Support is also available through Come Chat About That, Breathing Space, and Samaritans.

You're not alone.

02/05/2025

I've seen basking sharks in the Clyde but never heard of them in the Forth. These harmless giants are so beautiful to watch.

If the weather didn't make today brilliant enough the sight of a giant fin gliding through the water along the Longniddry coastline certainly made for an epi...

05/04/2025

Stunning photo taken from one of our local parks
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18/03/2025

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There are some lovely walks around the Carron. I know some dog-walkers who've been lucky enough to see otters, kingfishers, and beaver!

12/03/2025

These are our latest Cat Cabin feline guests, Lucifer and Chaos (shared with their owners' permission). Their owner has made a lovely wee video about their time with us - https://youtube.com/shorts/OFwY3ztTSmI?feature=share. It's so good to see cats (and their owners) enjoying the cabin!

05/02/2025

More excellent drone footage by Scotdrone. This time a bit of Outlander interest. A lot of the Outlander filming sites are in this area - I printed off a map of them for one of our guests last week. https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1FZTnguPBt/

31/01/2025

Fascinating old photo of Edinburgh from the National Galleries of Scotland, which is just a short walk from Waverley Station, about half an hour from us.

This is a fabulous and one of the earliest images of Edinburgh. It is brought to us by National Galleries of Scotland. Believe it or not it shows the foundations of the Scott Monument. The foundation stone was laid in 1840 so this is likely to be around this date. The monument was designed by George Meikle Kemp so wonder if he is one of the folks sitting on the foundations here. Poor George drowned in the canal on a foggy night around four years after this photo was taken. Although we can see the Royal Scottish Academy building in the background there is no sign of the National Gallery which wasn’t completed until the late 1850s. Below the castle the outline of the Rotunda - palace of entertainment showing dioramas of historic events - can be seen on the Mound in the background. If you haven’t done so visit the National Gallery of Scotland

Image National Gallery of Scotland.

28/01/2025

Some more fabulous local footage from Scotdrone: https://www.facebook.com/share/r/15yLHRtWh8/

28/01/2025

Storm Éowyn made our Friday rather interesting when it knocked out power to our whole area around 2pm. The holiday site has electric cooking but we have a gas stove in the house so we kept a kettle boiling on there and spent the afternoon taking thermos flasks round so our guests could still enjoy hot drinks. The units always have a torch but as darkness set in we added worklights and candles as well as toys to keep the kids occupied with the TV off. Later on, some of the guests came up to the house to cook their dinner by candle-light (a first for me). Power was back on by 8pm and it seems like our guests actually quite enjoyed the experience!