Crail and the East Neuk of Fife offer walks, whisky, wild swimming and sauna

The spectacular Shetland archipelago – with its dive-bombing gannets, ancient settlements and endless horizons – is the perfect spot for a holiday with kids

Pretty villages, antique shops and markets await in this bucolic region that you can reach without stepping on a flight

A slow jaunt around the mountainous national park, on some of the highest roads in Britain, delivers dramatic scenery, frosty walks and ziplining after dark

Every spring, almost 100,000 seabirds – guillemots, great skuas, razorbills and puffins – descend on the small island of Handa, just off Scotland's far north-west coast. Handa Island can be glimpsed from many points among the coastline of far…

The region between the Cairngorms and the Moray Firth is rightly famous for its whisky, but that is just one of its many charms

The next few winters could offer some of the UK's best displays of the aurora borealis in years

The east coast north of Inverness is a part of far north Scotland that many visitors whizz past on their way around the North Coast 500, eager to press on to…

With great water sports, coastal walks, wildlife and an ice-cream parlour, this idyllic spot in Sutherland is the perfect hangout – and no one seems to know about it