“We can’t stay here too long,” Jamie Boyle told us when we stepped out of the car. He had driven us to one of the most remote spots in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides, a tiny island called Vallay that ...

Even as a Scotsman, it’s hard to concentrate on your whisky when an orca is breaching off the bow. Harder still, when you’re in the on-deck hot tub, savouring the sunshine after a lunch of boat-fresh ...

Big cruise lines are rolling out their 2015-16 itineraries on luxury ships -- and so are new super-small ones, which operate just one boat on cruises to Scottish islands. Hebrides Cruises isn’t the ...

Known for hilltop castles, abundant rainfall, and rolling green valleys speckled with flocks of sheep, Scotland far exceeds its classic clichés. From the Highlands to the islands, Scotland is an ...

Insider's reporter visited the Isle of Barra in Scotland in September. She says the concept of slow island living is ...

If you're looking to drive an electric car powered almost entirely by renewable energy, we have a vacation destination in mind. Islands in the remote Scottish Hebrides archipelago get plenty of wind, ...

In 1773, Samuel Johnson—poet, essayist, and London’s literary light—and his biographer, James Boswell, passed through the rugged, starkly beautiful Hebridean Islands just off Scotland’s western coast.