(StatePoint) As children all over the country count down the last days of summer, parents are checking off their to-do lists to make sure everyone is ready to head back
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Scotland is home to the finest stalking in the world and Alasdair Mitchell chooses the best places everyone ought to visit at least once in an article for Shooting Times
I have to admit that I haven’t shot a red stag for years. These days, I tend to stalk hinds, for budgetary reasons. Yet money is a renewable resource, whereas time is not, so perhaps I should go to the hill for a stag while I still can. But if so, where are the best places for stalking in Scotland?
1.Forest of Atholl
The Forest of Atholl, in Highland Perthshire, would certainly be on my list. This is an ancient deer forest and here I use ‘forest’ in its original sense of a hunting preserve, rather than woodland. It has long been popular with royalty. Queen Mary attended a driven hunt at Atholl in 1563 that accounted for 360 deer and five wolves.
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Australia s top 25 travel experiences, state by state
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Australians: get excited. It doesn t matter where you are in this fine land, there is a travel destination or attraction nearby that is truly amazing, truly world-class.
We re talking the sort of experiences that foreign visitors have typically – in better times – spent their life savings on being able to access. The likes of sailing in the Whitsundays, visiting ancient Indigenous rock-art sites, cruising in the Kimberley, wining and dining in our finest locales.
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This is the stuff we Australians should be getting genuinely excited about when it comes to planning a holiday at home this year, the places and experiences that couldn t be bettered overseas even if you were able to try. Every state and territory has them. It s time to be inspired.