English Language Holiday Scotland | A Portrait of a Loch

This was Loch Earn yesterday morning (the same loch I swam in under bright sun the previous day.

If you’ve not visited Scotland, you may not know how the landscape is always changing.

Sure, photos can look pretty, but they rarely capture the mood of the land and the way it’s perpetually changing.

It’s why people fall in love with being here.

It’s why they use words like ‘mysterious’, ‘romantic,’ ‘ancient’ and ‘timeless’.

You could live at the foot of the same hills your whole life, and every day they’ll look different.

You’ll never stop looking at them, drinking them in.

There’s always something to notice and to love, even (especially) in this crazy information-packed world. 

A Taste of How We Share Scotland

This loch. I know when the osprey fish here (about an hour before sunset).

 I know the breeze that blows down the loch just before the rain starts falling. 

Our language holidays share a cycle path at the West end of this loch, on which you cross over a viaduct (destination Killin, where we visit a smokehouse to taste cheese and salmon with local organic gooseberry wine).

If we go East, you’ll be in Comrie, which has charming and strange, local festivals, including a midnight flaming torch procession at New Year.  

In Comrie, I have an amazing friend who would like to share the landscape with you, if you are willing to take your shoes and socks off and follow her into the river.

(You don’t have to – we could visit and explore the eco-business Comrie Croft instead).

If you go with Jen she’ll share a little hut which has been measuring the tremor of global earthquakes since 1874 (you can look in the window and see the printout): a beautiful, terrible indigo line whose wavers represent worlds collapsing.

Choose How to Explore Scotland 

You can visit Scotland as a tourist: or you can get to know it through exploring, noticing details and having great conversations.

Only the latter will help bond with your English.

Your English doesn’t have to be perfect, but it does have to feel right.

That’s the power of a bespoke language holiday.

It combines the power of being in a place with the power of personalised language coaching, to get you results for a lifetime of English. 

If you want to let the Scottish landscape open your heart to English, 

The Win-Win Weather Gamble

English Language Holiday in Scotland

What about the weather?

If rain really bothers you, then don’t choose Scotland.

With the changing landscape comes changing weather. It’s part of the package. Our weather is what keeps the landscape so greeen and lush: and makes sunny days feel like gifts.

However, at our language school we like a win-win situation. If it rains 3 days in a row on your language holiday in Scotland, we treat you to dinner on the shores of this loch : at Achray House Hotel: a 4 Michelin rosette restaurant (at time of publication). 

This is the view.

Remember to look out for ospreys!

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Mentions:

Falls of Dochart Smokehouse

Achray House Hotel

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