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Edinburgh: Ring in the New

Georgian townhouses in Edinburgh's New Town

Edinburgh’s New Town remains arguably the world’s finest example of Georgian town planning and architecture, but two centuries on, the austere terraced townhouses and the luxuriant private parks wear a comfortable patina.


From JJJ to AAA: Dundee re-invents itself

Painter Fred Livingstone at work in his Dundee studio

Scotland's waterfront city of Dundee used to be known as “the city of jute, jam and journalism”. Now. all this has changed


Gentlemen, start your engines...

The passengers have clattered downstairs to the ferry’s dimly-lit hold, squeezing back into dozens of cars, trucks and vans which have spent the journey packed into line, front to back. Now… not exactly the chequered flag, but the ramp has lowered into place, the crewman waves each vehicle forward in turn. We accelerate up onto the ramp, out into the daylight, clattering ashore onto virgin territory.


Glasgow's wee secret

An unlikely cultural capital, Glasgow's uncomprisingly Victorian streetscape provides the setting for an assemblage of fine galleries and museums.


Jute's just revenge

Rolls of jute on display in Dundee's Verdant Works jute museum

Jute, once the mainstay of Dundee's economy, is staging a surprising comeback in some surprising places.


 

 
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