Mount Stuart commission Turner Prizewinner piece for summer 2013

Mount Stuart  – the spectacular and playful architectural stunner of a stately home outside Rothesay Continue reading

Crarae Garden hosts an unseasonal woolly jumper in July

On Sunday 14th July, Freddy the Alpaca – from down Kintyre way is, by popular demand – making a return visit Continue reading

Arduaine Garden reprieved from felling of its larch shelter belt in Sudden Oak Death disease

Forestry Commission Scotland (FCS) has told the National Trust for Scotland Continue reading

Mount Stuart appoints new directors to Trust

The Mount Stuart Trust has just released the following media statement: Continue reading

Walking with Poets to celebrate 175th birthday of Scotland’s pioneering ecologist

John Muir, himself an author – who used his nature writing as part of groundbreaking campaigns to protect Continue reading

Argyll and the Isles Tourism at Expo 2013: 90 appointments before lunchtime

AITC Expo 21

A beaver seemed to have escaped from Knapdale and somehow met up with the tallest tree [from  Ardkinglas?], Continue reading

Argyll National Trust Gardens spring into Easter with family events

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Two of Argyll’s most stunning gardens are getting ready to burst into bloom once again – Continue reading

Partners to the fore at superbly organised and successful Tourism Summit

WCM leaving CalMac

Yesterday’s Tourism Summit for Argyll and the Isles was a cooperative success in every possible way. Continue reading

Argyll and the Isles Tourism CEO’s welcome to 2013 Tourism Summit

Here we are, on 13th March, in the Marble Hall of the magnificent Mount Stuart, outside Rothesay on the Isle of Bute. Continue reading

A promised treat for 2013: Caol Ruadh Sculpture Park opens on 5th May

Caol Ruadh cover

The Caol Ruadh Scuplture Park on the western fringe of Colintraive in South Cowal, Continue reading