Best of travel: Explore the highlands by plane with The Carnegie Club
The private plane I’m boarding at South London’s Biggin Hill would be ideal for anyone who owns a desert island or alpine ski lodge. It’s a multi-talented Pilatus PC-12 NG. My destination is closer to home but even more exclusive: The Carnegie Club at Scotland’s Skibo Castle.
My pilot, Edwin Brenninkmeyer, who is also Pilatus’s distributor for the British Isles, describes the PC-12 as an SUV of the skies. You can go anywhere and do anything you want with it. It can take off and land in very short distances on unmetalled surfaces such as gravel, snow or, as confirmed when we touched down with barely a bump on the tiny Easter airfield near Tain, grass.
Young carollers bring cheer to Dornoch By Contributor Published: 09:00, 22 December 2020
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Young Curators Club members dressed in Victorian dress.
Led by musician Martin Treacher, the 13 youngsters began by entertaining residents at the Meadows Care Home. They gathered by the beautifully lit Christmas tree on the grass outside the lounge so that residents and staff on both floors of the home could see and hear them through the open windows.
Rousing verses, including Good King Wenceslas and We Wish you a Merry Christmas, could be heard with Martin playing the accordion and the young curators accompanying with bells and drums.