A rainy Sunday was forecast and I had no appetite for sitting at home. An indoor activity was the obvious solution and I took the first...

I first visited the National Gallery of Modern Art almost 20 years ago and decided a follow-up was long overdue. I bussed it over to the...

The tiny village of West Wemyss on the Fife coast is a true hidden gem. Now a conservation area with a population of less than 300, it's...

I was raised as a Fifer but lived the first four and a half years of my life in Tranent, East Lothian. My folks are both from the Kingdom...

I lived in Dundee from 1993 to 1995. Scary to think that's now more than a quarter of a century ago. I try to get up to the old city at...

The Lanarkshire town of Coatbridge has a proud industrial heritage and the area was once dominated by foundries and coal mines. The...

After lengthy spells at home during lockdown, it was something of a novelty to simply jump on a bus to the big city and hit a museum....

Although lockdown was an adventure in itself and opened up new avenues of interest, there's no getting away from the fact that it did...

In recent years I've marked the autumn Doors Open days in the diary. They take place over various weekends in September and each local...

Ever since my dad moved into a care home, I have been making an effort to take mum on day outings over the weekend. She hasn't driven a...

The October holidays came around and a trip to Germany was still off limits. We plumped for five days down in the southwest of Scotland....

In 1883, the world's first Carnegie library was opened in Dunfermline. Andrew Carnegie is the town's most famous son and he amassed...

The small town of Aberdour sits on a stretch of Fife coastline once known to Edinburgh Victorians as the Fife Riviera. Together with the...

I grew up in Lochgelly, 8 miles equidistant from the larger towns of Kirkcaldy and Dunfermline. Both places have large amounts of...

Two weeks off work and a three-night stay at Lunan Bay was on the agenda. It's a beautiful coastal spot between Arbroath and Montrose. We...

The new town of Livingston is an outpost on the Stagecoach Megarider Plus zone and it was on a Sunday morning I left Dunfermline bus...

The month of September hosts Doors Open Day across Scotland. It gives the public an opportunity to tour buildings and locations that are...

I've long been a film buff and jumped at the chance to attend a festival just along the road in the ancient capital of Scotland. The...

Another German meetup in Edinburgh rolled around and since I was off work, I decided to make a day of it in the capital city. The...

I go to eastern Germany a couple of times each year. My wife Nicole is from a region known as the Uckermark which is a rural area north...