Scotland’s first canal, the 35-mile Forth and Clyde, was built in 1768 to transport coal. Horses would walk alongside the canal on a towpath, pulling massive barges of coal at first, and then ...

DOMINATING the landscape at the junction of Scotland’s Forth & Clyde and Union canals is an eye-grabbing working sculpture, a sort of modernistic Ferris wheel for boats. Its imposing design ...

The captain of our canal barge trip summed up our week-long excursion aboard the intimate Spirit of Scotland boat in the Scottish Highlands in one word: charming. Has anyone ever described a ...