About
Gilbert Summers
and Must See Scotland
Hello! Thanks for dropping in! My name is Gilbert Summers and I’ve been really lucky to have spent years writing about Scotland.
As a native Scot, there are so many topics to write about!
As a professional and an expert on Scotland for the visitor, I’ve been asked by all kinds of international guidebook publishers and national tourism organisations to provide information for guidebooks, promotional materials, websites and so on.
So, in the past, I've been involved in writing about my country for some high-profile publishers such as Fodor’s and the Automobile Association as well as VisitBritain and VisitScotland, our national tourism agency.
In some ways, working within the tourism industry for tourism clients, you could say I was paid to exaggerate; to say the right things; in short, to help market Scotland.
But that was then. On this site, right now, I’m just writing to please myself! (And you, I hope.)
In the past, clients usually wanted their promotional material to take a certain slant.
Naturally, only the good points of a destination were described. Nobody ever said – ‘Go on, tell them what you really think.’
So that’s the key to this site. Free from obligation to this or that client, I can record a truly independent viewpoint or overview of Scotland.
It's quite a liberating experience!
I promise I won't be too serious...
Anyway, I hope you’ll stick around to read some really useful information here about my home country and I promise that I’ll be straightforward and honest and as entertaining as possible on the way.
To be honest, there are a few pages that lean towards the wacky - or, at least, are less than reverent.
But please treat that only as a reaction to all those years when I had to say uncompromisingly solemn and relentlessly positive things about a few towns or attractions that may not in reality give the very best experience.
And I think you deserve the best experience of Scotland.
That’s why I’d like you to have a good look round the site. There’s a lot of stuff in here! A page like 'what to see in Scotland' - for instance - is just the start!
Besides, whatever the reality of the Scottish weather, Scotland is still a wonderful country to explore and discover. So come and visit soon.. And trust me, there really are ways and means - see picture - of dealing with those pesky Scottish midges……
