Tourist Review (16): Dirleton Castle.
With the arrival of spring, it has occurred to me once again that there are miles of unexplored countryside behind …
Category Archives: Tourist Review
Tourist Review (15): The Cairngorm Reindeer Herd.
When the sun is unveiled over the Highlands, the colours pounce out of the scenery. The tawny hills are unexpectedly …
Tourist Review Special: Auschwitz-Birkenau
We’re on the road to Auschwitz-Birkenau. We leave behind Krakow, the most wonderful of cornucopias, with more treasures than the …
Tourist Review (13): The Glen Grant Distillery.
We’re on the road to the Glen Grant distillery. The passing hills and mountains bump the sky, as bare as …
Tourist Review (12): St Peter’s Seminary.
If the Puritan imagination soars in its revulsion of Catholicism – the mystery and superstition, the dark history and arcane …
Tourist Review (11): The Newly-Reopened National Museum of Scotland.
Sometime back in 2010, Tychy reflected on the ongoing three-year, £46 million refurbishment of the National Museum of Scotland: Refurbishment …
Tourist Review (10): The NASA Lunar Sample.
Our Dynamic Earth is “an amazing adventure” and “an interactive journey” which they keep in a big tent around the …
Tourist Review (9): The Corstorphine Hill Tower.
Corstorphine Hill is a large cake of cool, sleepy woodland which reposes above the Western suburbs of Edinburgh, a mile …
Tourist Review (8): The Water of Leith Walkway.
We should not have begun at the sea. It would have been basic narrative competence to pick up the “silver …
Tourist Review (7): The Highland Wildlife Park.
Since it is no longer possible to tour workhouses and insane asylums, the zoo is perhaps the most unpleasant institution …
Tourist Review (6): John Knox House.
“A tense, musty, unignorable silence/ Brewed God knows how long. Hatless, I take off/ My cycle-clips in awkward reverence.” It …
Tourist Review (5): “The Lewis Chessmen.”
Refurbishment is an impenetrable science, and quite why most of the National Museum of Scotland should be shut down for …
Tourist Review (4): St Clement’s Church.
[Last year, Tourist Review weighed up the merits of Rosslyn Chapel, the Tron pub, and Tantallon Castle. This lazy and …
Tourist Review: Tantallon Castle.
The word “Tantallon” may put one in mind of a little fanfare on a trumpet, but the castle so splendidly …
The Tron.
Somebody has to be brave, somebody needs to find the courage to say it, and I, for one, will finally …
