A hop on the train and a short ferry ride away from Glasgow lies an island that was recently crowned one of the UK's most beautiful.
Luxury travel mag Suitcase named the Isle of Arran as just one of two Scottish islands, along with the Isle of Eigg, in their top nine nationwide list.
Writers picked out Arran's 'moss-green lowlands, rocky rising crags, heather-blanketed hills and heavily forested glens' as just some of the reasons for its beauty. And it's hard to disagree.