Heart of Scotland Holidays

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!

25/12/2023

Happy Christmas, folks. Hope you all have a fabulous day!