Travel

Boris Johnson’s plan for a bridge between Scotland and Northern Ireland was suggested as long ago as 1869, although passengers on the proposed submerged tubular bridge would have had to be made of stern stuff.

Fun for the whole family and a stirring reminder of our common history

Carried away by a desert detox

Scotland on Sunday travel

I’m standing 50 floors above the streets of Boston, enjoying the views from the Skywalk Observatory – and its 360-degree view showcases some of the city’s key advantages – from its waterside location to streetside cafes and restaurants in the trendy Back Bay neighbourhood.

Cathal McAteer, Founder of Folk, a clothing brand known for stylish, modern separates with an eclectic twist is based in London, where Folk has five bricks and mortar stores.

Adventurous young Scots are wanted to take part in a scheme that could see them living and working in America.

Scotland on Sunday travel

Cat Thomson stays at an historic coaching inn in Midlothian - Scotland on Sunday travel

With some less than helpful spellings, there are some places in Scotland whose names get butchered on a daily basis.

The current crisis over Brexit is obscuring the growing multi-billion-pound scandal of the spiralling costs of the High-Speed Rail Link, writes Bill Jamieson.

The TV programme Great Canal Journeys, with Prunella Scales and Timothy West, has proved a rather unlikely ratings success with viewing figures of up to 2.2 million.

The Ocean Film Festival World Tour washes into Edinburgh later this month, offering a tasting menu of short films concerning the life aquatic. Highlights include Manry at Sea, a documentary about US newspaperman Robert Manry’s bold 1965 attempt to cross the Atlantic in a tiny, 13-and-a-half foot sailing boat called Tinkerbelle; I Am Fragile, in which filmmaker Florian Ledoux trains his lens on the landscape and wildlife of north-eastern Canada and western Greenland; and A Peace Within, which follows “extreme artist” Philip Gray as he attempts to execute an underwater painting in subterranean pools in Mexico – pools, incidentally, which some locals still believe are gateways to the afterlife.

Visits to Malaga, Gibraltar, Cartagena, Cadiz, Lisbon and A Coruna and a feast of food and fun at sea make for an entertaining trip

So-called ‘dark tourism’ sites (for example, the sites of tragedies) are drawing in more and more visitors each year, with holidaymakers looking to learn more about the more mysterious or even harrowing parts of history.