Travel and Dining

The small Scottish town of Dumfries is located not far from the English border in the south of the country. Everything there revolves around Robert Burns, the Scottish national poet and the town’s most famous son. However, I have already dedicated an article to him. Some people believe that there is nothing worth seeing in …

What Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is to the Germans, Robert Burns is to the Scots. Burns is perhaps even more revered and celebrated in Scotland than Goethe is in Germany. He is the Scottish national poet, but also the poet of the common people. He spent his rather short life largely in the south of …