Considering holidays in Scotland? What sort of weather can you expect for your outdoor activities Better than you might think! Today was a perfect example. The last weekend in September we have brilliant sunshine, with just a gentle breeze and a temperature in the low 60s( Farenheit of course). It was perfect for playing golf, or just about anything really. Well maybe not sunbathing :-) In fact it was so nice I slipped away to take a couple of photographs. The main picture here is the view from the 18th green on Royal Dornoch Struie course looking across the Dornoch Firth to the Struie Hill and beyond, to the "West". Last summer I met a holiday maker in exactly this spot - I was coming back from a few holes in the evening with the dog. A native New Yorker, he enjoyed holidays in Scotland most years but couldn't stand the winters, or that's what he thought, until I told him about the weather here. It's infinitely better then New York, or Chicago, or London, or Singapore, or Sydney. In fact it's better than anywhere I've ever been, apart from San Francisco, probably. We never get so hot as to need air conditioning, even in the car. A day when temperatures stay below freezing is very rare, and a cold night in the winter won't get below 15 degrees Farenheit. We almost never get thunder storms and our rainfall is below average for the UK. In the depth's of winter we'll only get around 6 hours of daylight, but in summer we'll have more than 20. For outdoor activity holidays in Scotland the Highlands is the ideal destination. The weather is simply perfect - well most of the time. The video here shows golfers on their holidays playing golf on the ground - links golf. The hole they're playing is the 1st on the Royal Dornoch Struie course. It was originally laid out by Old Tom Morris and for years was part of the Championship course layout. The green is shallow, front to back, at no more than 10 paces. It's wide, at 30 paces left to right and slopes hard in the same direction. If an approach is going to reach the green and stay there the ball needs to land short and bounce up the steep slope at the front. Anything pitching the green will finish yards through the back. Any under hit approach will stick, or roll back into our own Valley of Sin. That's where these two finished up. Both putted up the slope, The first under hit and the ball came back to his feet. The second got it just right and was left with a tap in. This is a fabulous golf hole you'll gather, and I haven't yet told you about the tee shot with heavy rough on the right and the quarry on the left.