Whether you come or your ancestors came from the North, South East or West of Scotland there is no doubt it is a very enchanting Country for the wayfarer, the holiday maker, the sight seer, the painters or the poets, people that love golf or fishing, and I admit right now I have huge ties to my homeland suffering a little of that `homesickness people talk about, hence all these writings.

To the likes of me, the exiled Scot beyond the seas, the Glens and Straths still wait in silence, many...

You know I do miss the Highlands, the feeling of open space and standing on those mist-shrouded mountains looking down on some the most beautiful lochs in the world, just breath-taking.

But these same areas have seen the hardest of winters, also some of the bloodiest battles ever fought. I have stood on these hills, many of them” Munroe’s” (hills and mountains over 3000`), and wondered what our ancestors must have been doing. I never stood on the edge of a cliff though for I have fear ...