Tripatini contributor Fyllis Hockman writes:

"Ask most anyone what comes to mind when they think of Scotland and you’ll probably hear bagpipes, kilts, tartans – maybe the brogue and haggis (about which more later). If the year were 1746, you would probably have heard the same thing. But it was in that year, after the Battle of Culloden when the English decimated the Scots, after which they set about to systematically rid the country and its people of their identity and traditions. It didn’t work, which makes it all the more remarkable that everything that defines the Scottish people today is the same as it was centuries ago – and it was my mission to explore them all: kilts, bagpipes, whisky. Even the Gaelic language. Well, almost all – haggis, not so much.

And it was on a trip to the Scottish Highlands with UnTours, a 49-year-old U.S. tour operator with its own unique traditions, that I got to relish all of it in Inverness, an atmospheric little city (pop. just under 48,000) which is considered the cultural capital of the Highlands."

Read more in her post An ´Untour´ Idyll in Inverness, Scotland, Where Age Old Traditions Are Alive and Well Today.

Victor Block