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Team Gallivant

Team Gallivant

21
May
A line up of Highland dancers at Braemar Highland Games.

A summer of Highland Games: Join us for a gallivant around Scotland's greatest Gatherings

Morag Lindsay enjoys the lively season among cabers, pipe bands and vibrant villages to discover which event does it best.
8 min read
18
May
Rebecca Maeule holding a caber while wearing a kilt.

"Caber tossing isn't just for men" – meet the ladies who launch

6 min read
14
May
Alan Cumming smiles, gesturing to an auditorium and stage behind him.

Scottish actor Alan Cumming on the Highland town that changed his life

Hollywood actor and Traitors US star Alan Cumming, artistic director of Pitlochry Festival Theatre, shares his insider guide to Pitlochry, plus tales of working with Brian Cox and what he’s doing next.
7 min read
07
May
A group of 17 women celebrate the success of the sit in, with Helen being carried aloft her colleagues' shoulders.

The Scottish women workers who took on corporate America

7 min read
30
Apr
Scotland Rocks: How fire, ice and deep time made one of the world’s most beautiful countries

Scotland Rocks: How fire, ice and deep time made one of the world’s most beautiful countries

8 min read
23
Apr
Sam Heughan drinking whisky by a loch. He is wearing a kilt and a leather jacket.

Sam Heughan’s Scotland: The Outlander star’s favourite places to escape, eat and explore

Actor Sam Heughan takes us on a Gallivant through Scotland – from the lochs and beaches of his Dumfries & Galloway childhood to Edinburgh hideaways, Highland escapes and Hebridean adventures.
6 min read
16
Apr
Emily and her dog standing by a large stone memorial cairn at the battlefield.

The Battle of Culloden: where Scotland's clans fell

The famous 1746 battle lasted less than an hour,
but its consequences spanned generations. Emily Chalmers visits the site to mark its 280th anniversary.
6 min read
09
Apr
Scotland's unicorn: the strange history behind a mythical national animal

Scotland's unicorn: the strange history behind a mythical national animal

7 min read
02
Apr
Adrian Shine, a man with white hair and a long white beard, in a tweed jacket. He is next to underwater equipment.

Is the Loch Ness Monster real? Inside a scientist's 50-year search for Nessie

Alberto Lejarraga talks to Loch Ness Project founder Adrian Shine as he reflects on his more than half a century of research at the shores of Scotland’s most famous loch.
6 min read
30
Mar
Urquhart Castle on the banks of Loch Ness. There is a rainbow in the background and the water is silvery.

Loch Ness Monster facts: size, sightings and theories

4 min read