East coast adventures - 5 places to escape the heat and the hordes
Plan some day trips out of the ordinary with the National Trust for Scotland
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Impressive: House of Dun
This summer everyone is flocking to the water but it is still possible to avoid the crowds, whether you’d prefer some quiet sea air or the gentle sounds of water on a millpond.
There are seaside locations that will catch your breath, with dramatic cliffs, crystal waters, and fresh air and there are peaceful watery escapes steeped in history, not hordes of people. The National Trust for Scotland is the conservation charity that preserves and maintains many of the country’s most loved places and spaces, so if you’d like an East coast adventure take your pick from our selection here.
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Gayle meets some of the newborn lambs starring in Facebook livestreams from Scottish farms.
Cuddling a newborn lamb has to be one of the best feelings in the world.
I’m lucky enough to turn up at Incheoch farm in Glenisla literally just an hour after a couple of the cute creatures have been born.
Farm owners Debbie and Neil McGowan are more than happy to let me hug them and I feel as though I’m in heaven when one fluffy wee girl nuzzles into me, her heart beating wildly.
Once I’ve mastered how to hold her properly (her legs were initially flailing all over the place), she settles into my arms for a snooze. What an honour.
Britain s rarest breed of cattle, the Vaynol, was boosted further last week by the arrival of the first two calves of eight expected this year by the Rothesay herd, at Dumfries House, headquarters of The Prince s Foundation. Farm manager John Rowell was delighted to welcome a bull and a heifer, with the bull calf described as an excellent example of the breed and likely to go on to be a stock bull for another herd, helping to increase genetic diversity nationally. The farm team of John and wife Denise, who is education farm manager, as well as shepherdess Charlotte Darwent and John Irwin, have been working round the clock to help deliver calves.