David Dalziel

If your idea of the perfect holiday season escape is like something out of Hansel and Gretel - charming half-timbered cottages and all-you-can eat sweet

Twas the night before Christmas... Oh sorry, that was last week’s column. Twas the night before New Year... when all over the land, the people were

Zermatt is a well-known Swiss ski resort. It is at 1,608 metres, (Ben Nevis is 1,345m) and faces the magnificent Matterhorn, a triangular rock pyramid

We all have our own favourite products and brands. Tea, jam, coffee and especially biscuits. Shortbread? Or digestive? Or something totally different? I

Hot tub. Those two words are guaranteed to trigger joy and excitement in my two children. When I dropped the words into the conversation followed by

When I was a schoolboy my favourite subject was history. One of my heroes was Alexander the Great; I never dreamt I would walk in his footsteps. This was

Where to go for a meal in Inverurie on a Tuesday night in January? After a busy festive period at work, I took a week off at the end of January for some

A haze of pink, red and lilac tulips, yellow daffodils and white anemones greeted us as we entered The Keukenhof Gardens, near Amsterdam. In the distance

Great and good of Scottish traditional entertainment gathered at HM Theatre in Aberdeen to pay tribute to the late broadcaster Robbie Shepherd

A family visit to the Mayen Estate in Moray served up plenty of excitement and relaxation in equal measures