Major events across Argyll to make for over the next few days

There’s Bute’s inspirational first International Guitar Festival, BOWFest at Inveraray Castle, and music of all kinds in Colonsay, Islay and Kintyre. Details below. Continue reading

Duke of Argyll cooks up a winner for Canadian and German Great Scottish Adventurers

Duke of Argyll coking for visitscotland guestsYou’re sitting in the lovely Inveraray Castle, in the most visually compelling village in Scotland, tucked into the Loch Shira bulge on the west shores of the longest sea loch in the UK – Loch Fyne.

You’re in the private quarters of the castle with its owners, the Duke and Duchess of Argyll, he the 13th Duke in the line of Chiefs of Clan Campbell.

And the Duke has himself just cooked you a dinner with a starter of Loch Fyne smoked salmon, followed by Argyll beef and with chocolate mousse and scottish berries for pudding. Continue reading

Duke of Argyll abseils Inveraray Castle for Stramash

Duke of Argyll abseiling Inveraray Castle for Stramash. Copyright John PatrickIn a move that may well stir the competitive urge in Britain’s younger Dukes, the 13th Duke of Argyll could not have demonstrated more powerfully how far, as Patron, he is on message with Argyll’s newest social enterprise – Stramash.

At yesterday’s launch of Stramash, handed over into independence by Council Leader Dick Walsh from its parent body, Argyll and Bute Council, its Patron literally descended from the heights of his ancestral seat, a living statement of Stramash’s motto, ‘inspiration through adventure’. Continue reading

VisitScotland’s Friendly Faces of Scotland campaign launches

VisitScotland’s latest campaign – this time a £1.25 million job Continue reading