Spring is always a few weeks later up in the Trossachs. whilst many of you may have seen your daffodils come and go...the ones we planted in front of the Soghail Lodge are just in bloom..... Beautiful!

Auld Lang Syne is a great Scots tradition to sing on New Years Eve....a nod to remember good times gone by. Prince gave a great performance of this Burns ditto on Hogmany 1987 at Paisley Park....the opening bars are the chords for Purple Rain...then Prince makes his entrance, which is where we pick it up, and he gives his rendition (some nice licks at the end for the rockers)....enjoy....Happy New Year from Balquhidder Mhor Lodge!

Just five minutes drive from Balquhidder Mhor Lodges is Loch Earn. Great for water sports and also wild water swimming. The Loch can be accessed from the south shore road, a beautiful winding road, where you can also access the start of the climb for the Munro Ben Vorlich, or from the A82 through Lochearnhead. Some of our recent guests fancied a quick dip and pulled up in a layby of the A82

We have a new attraction near the lodges at The Golden Larches Café, their "World Famous Shark Toilet", and it's not for the faint hearted if you want to spend a penny..... but we can certainly recommend their fare! Check out the photos, can you spot the aquatic cat? @thegoldenlarches

Robert Carlyle (Trainspotting and the Full Monty) gives a forthright Glaswegian monologue about the story of Johnnie Walker blended whiskey....the poor old bag-piper gets a poor reception! This brilliant film was shot at Inverlochlarig, at the head of Loch Doine, quite near to Balquhidder Mhor Lodges