The Glenfinnan Monument, a lonely sentinel standing watch from Loch Shiel’s narrow northern shore. It is one of Scotland’s most photographed, most iconic views. It is the scene that launched a thousand shortbread tins. And it is my destination today. I really enjoyed my recent visit to Culloden Battlefield, where the 1745 – 1746 Jacobite …
I really need to get into drone photography. I did make a start on this after Annie bought me an inexpensive practice drone a few Christmases back. I practiced in the house. No problem. I practised in my back garden. No problem. I practised in a field. The drone made a beeline for the horizon …
Location: Tummel Bridge, Perth & Kinross Opening Times: 24 hours Entry: Free Access: Free parking at in village Tummel Bridge was one of those brown signs bagged on a whim. Annie and I were on the A9, saw the sign, and decided, why not, let’s check it out. In the past I had often passed …
If you have been reading the past few entries in this website / blog, you will know I have been accompanied by my wife Annie as I bagged my most recent brown signs. This came with a price attached, specifically a visit to the House of Bruar on our way back down from Aviemore, and …
It is Sunday morning, the sun is shining, and it is time to say cheerio to Aviemore after a lovely weekend away. There is, however, a great big brown sign in the centre of town saying, ‘Strathspey Railway’, and it would be extremely churlish for a brown sign bagger such as myself to skip town …
The last successful Jacobite action of Prince Charles Edward Stuart’s 1745 Uprising was the siege of the original Fort George in Inverness, which Government forces surrendered in February 1746. The inexperienced, up-his-own-arse, wife-beating alcoholic that history inexplicably remembers as ‘Bonnie Prince Charlie’ ordered the fort to be blown up so that it couldn’t again fall …
One of the joys of brown sign bagging is coming across a sign for a previously unknown attraction and then discovering that said attraction is something very special indeed. This happened after Annie and I had just left Culloden Battlefield and were beginning our journey south to Aviemore, our base of operations for the weekend. …
The last weekend in February finds myself and Mrs. Bagger – we’ll call her Annie, as that is her name – in Aviemore to attend a Beluga Lagoon concert, so we booked a couple of nights so that I could bag a handful of brown signs while in the area. Hopefully we will stumble across …
Prior to the COVID pandemic, Urquhart Castle was visited by over half a million people per year. It was Historic Environment Scotland’s third most visited staffed site after Edinburgh and Stirling Castles. Like every other tourist attraction in the world, it experienced a major slump in 2020, but is bouncing back. The latest available figures …
It was 15 April 1933 when I popped into the bar of the Drumnadrochit Hotel. Gordon was on duty, and the only other customer was Alex Campbell, water bailiff for the Loch Ness and a part-time journalist. Gordon tried but with just the three of us the banter, such as it was, could best be …
