Guess where we went last summer? A two-week tour that took in the UK’s first Dark Sky Park, also its largest forest, the world’s smallest post office, the First World War’s largest munitions factory, one of just seven UNESCO biosphere reserves in the UK, the oldest privately owned whisky distillery in the world. More clues?
OK, it’s Scotland. But we’re also in the region where you’ll find its National Book Town, the home of its national bard, the National Trust for Scotland’s first stately home (given to it by the Kennedy family, to avoid inheritance tax), most southern point, and highest pub (and village).
And where folk to this day still flee to come and get married. You’ve got it with Gretna Green, but what do you know about the…
