In 2009 Manuela and Iwan Wirth– perhaps the most prominent contemporary-art dealerships on the planet today– changed Durslade Farm, a working farm near Bruton, Somerset, into a hugely effective gallery-guesthouse-restaurant combination. Mud, manure, macrobiotics and work of arts. 10 years later on they put a comparable type of lightning in a various sort of bottle at the other end of the nation, in the Scottish Highlands, with the Fife Arms, a previous searching lodge in Braemar, not far from Balmoral Castle.
Balmoral was the favored rural hideout of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Together they basically created the tartan-clad, caber-tossing, shortbread-tin variation of Scottishness that the majority of us nowadays accept as historic truth. The Fife Arms takes this charming dream, surges its whisky with acid, amazes the bagpipes and dials them as much as 11.
It would be hard to overemphasize the strangeness of the location or the sense of childish marvel to which it offers increase. Scotland has some great hotels however the Fife Arms is something else. In the meantime, a minimum of, it remains in a classification all its own.
Address: Mar Rd, Braemar, Ballater AB35 5YN
Cost: Doubles from ⤠450