Highland Games & Festivals

Fatboy Slim in the Highlands? This is Belladrum!

'Belladrum' brings big names, new music and a very different kind of Highland gathering to the countryside near Inverness.

Taste North promotional montage celebrating food and drink in Caithness and Sutherland, with drinks being poured and a chef cooking.

Chocolate research? Somebody has to do it!

Meet the people making the North Highlands taste so good, then sample their work. 'Taste North' is one research opportunity I’m very happy to take.

Woman signing a book at a bookshop table surrounded by bookshelves.

A book thick enough to stun a sheep

Judith Ross Napier’s joke got my attention, but the chance to meet her afterwards made the evening. Discover the pleasure of 'John O'Groats Book Festival'.

Big tunes by Dunnet's big dunes

Dunnet’s marquees are going up, the music is coming, and I’m only six miles away. So why do I keep missing the party at 'Tunes by the Dunes'?