Rufflets Hotel Blog

A new year calls for new adventures. This New Year (and new decade) presents an opportunity to make good on all those broken promises to travel. Find the perfect activity or place to visit from our top 20 to put on your Fife bucket list!

If you love visiting new destinations and discovering hidden attractions, cool sights and unusual things to do, you’ll want to get off the beaten track and avoid some of the more popular tourist locations.

This week we are shining a spotlight on the award-winning Wardlaw Museum, formerly the Museum of the University of St Andrews which has undergone a £2.1 million makeover and re-opens on 4th April.

Summer will soon be in in full swing and while some of us are dreaming about jetting off on a faraway voyage, there’s just as much adventure to be found closer to home.

Each year visitors from across the globe visit Scotland to explore their ancestry. While searching records is an important and often initial element of the family history quest, seeing and experiencing Scotland first hand is one of the most exciting parts of the process.

Once upon a time, in the early 13th century, on the island of Ljusterö in the Stockholm archipelago, lived a mysterious clan of trolls. Known for their deep connection with nature and their mischievous ways, these trolls had roamed the forests of Östra Lagnö on Ljusterö for centuries.

On a crisp Autumn evening, as the sun dipped below the horizon and a hush settled over the grounds of Rufflets, young Isla and her brother Jock crept out from their Woodland Suite. They’d heard whispers of the Ruffleskoggen Trolls, tales told by their grandmother who claimed she’d once glimpsed a tiny, shadowy figure vanish beneath a tree trunk.