Tennis, Travel, and Making Memories

I once shared a tiny shack on the northwest coast with one lumpy bed, one saucepan, one fork and one million woodlice with one grumpy compadre some years back. Never mind that we had ignored the majestic scenery all around us in favour of an ever-intensifying rivalry on our makeshift 'tennis' court; we managed to let our competitiveness simmer right up to the sound of racquet (wooden, thankfully) on rib and then... laughter, the ideal soundtrack to mutual idiocy being stopped dead in its tracks.

It was to prove the making of a solid friendship (though it could have gone the other way) which has benefitted greatly from the occasional, brief, sojourn to a different environment, usually on a tight budget.

With due deference to all the large-scale goings on in a Scottish summer (Edinburgh Festivals, major music events etc), we've highlighted a selection of activities and smaller scale happenings which we think merit some consideration outwith the big PR blitzes. These are pretty arbitrary, and we tried to keep them diverse yet generally affordable. Maybe one suggestion will catch your eye and you'll go and make memories to last a lifetime. Maybe those memories will include some fractured bones and a 'former' friend. Still, better to try, no?