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Category Archives: Tourist Review

Tourist Review (16): Dirleton Castle.

April 17, 2013

With the arrival of spring, it has occurred to me once again that there are miles of unexplored countryside behind …

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Tourist Review (15): The Cairngorm Reindeer Herd.

April 3, 2013

When the sun is unveiled over the Highlands, the colours pounce out of the scenery. The tawny hills are unexpectedly …

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Tourist Review Special: Auschwitz-Birkenau

June 9, 2012

We’re on the road to Auschwitz-Birkenau. We leave behind Krakow, the most wonderful of cornucopias, with more treasures than the …

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Tourist Review (13): The Glen Grant Distillery.

April 27, 2012

We’re on the road to the Glen Grant distillery. The passing hills and mountains bump the sky, as bare as …

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Tourist Review (12): St Peter’s Seminary.

April 12, 2012

If the Puritan imagination soars in its revulsion of Catholicism – the mystery and superstition, the dark history and arcane …

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Tourist Review (11): The Newly-Reopened National Museum of Scotland.

September 7, 2011

Sometime back in 2010, Tychy reflected on the ongoing three-year, £46 million refurbishment of the National Museum of Scotland: Refurbishment …

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Tourist Review (10): The NASA Lunar Sample.

July 26, 2011

Our Dynamic Earth is “an amazing adventure” and “an interactive journey” which they keep in a big tent around the …

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Tourist Review (9): The Corstorphine Hill Tower.

July 25, 2011

Corstorphine Hill is a large cake of cool, sleepy woodland which reposes above the Western suburbs of Edinburgh, a mile …

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Tourist Review (8): The Water of Leith Walkway.

July 12, 2011

We should not have begun at the sea. It would have been basic narrative competence to pick up the “silver …

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Tourist Review (7): The Highland Wildlife Park.

April 24, 2011

Since it is no longer possible to tour workhouses and insane asylums, the zoo is perhaps the most unpleasant institution …

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Tourist Review (6): John Knox House.

April 2, 2011

“A tense, musty, unignorable silence/ Brewed God knows how long. Hatless, I take off/ My cycle-clips in awkward reverence.” It …

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Tourist Review (5): “The Lewis Chessmen.”

May 27, 2010

Refurbishment is an impenetrable science, and quite why most of the National Museum of Scotland should be shut down for …

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Tourist Review (4): St Clement’s Church.

April 17, 2010

[Last year, Tourist Review weighed up the merits of Rosslyn Chapel, the Tron pub, and Tantallon Castle. This lazy and …

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Tourist Review: Tantallon Castle.

July 11, 2009

The word “Tantallon” may put one in mind of a little fanfare on a trumpet, but the castle so splendidly …

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The Tron.

June 4, 2009

Somebody has to be brave, somebody needs to find the courage to say it, and I, for one, will finally …

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