The origins of your New Year dram.

Whisky – from the Gaelic ‘uisce beatha’ meaning ‘water of life’. As you welcome in the New Year with a traditional Scottish dram, have you ever considered exactly where your whisky came from and why there are so many variations? The answer is very simple, it...

5 Teenage views on the natural world.

A major issue affecting today’s youth is that of our diminishing landscapes and animal habitats. Through all mediums of technology, today’s children know more about the environment and the creatures to be found on the planet than any other generation before them. It...

Rozelle Park’s Hidden Gems

  podIGT found a very poignant and moving hidden gem today on a visit to Rozelle Park in Ayr, Scotland.     The stumps of felled trees in the Rozelle Remembrance Woodland have been sculpted into figures of soldiers of the Great War that were taken from...

Bali a Land of Contrasts

Arriving at the Balinese airport of Denspensar, we were greeted with a sea of smiling faces and hands waving cards with passengers’ names upon them. How would we find our guide amongst the horde of people before us? I need not have worried as he found us.  ...

5 teenage views on climate change

One issue that seems to be of major concern to our young people is that of climate change. Scientists tell us that man has done major damage to the ozone layer causing Earth to become warmer thus changing climatic patterns. On the other hand, there are others who...