Close your sun-soaked eyes and listen to a description of the Gordon constituency, with its rolling meadows, its industrial mixture of textiles, distilling, beef rearing and quality food processing and you are transported abroad.
Torcuil Crichton hits the road and the miles on a journey to sense the mood of the country as a crucially important Holyrood election rolls around. This week he starts his journey in Gordon, the seat Alex Salmond has to win if he is to realise his dreams of power
Close your sun-soaked eyes and listen to a description of the Gordon constituency, with its rolling meadows, its industrial mixture of textiles, distilling, beef rearing and quality food processing and you are transported abroad.