The first three or four months of each year are notoriously quiet from a tourism point of view all over Scotland. Highland Perthshire is no different, but we are seeing one or two initiatives to put on events and activities on at this time of the year.

  Pitlochry Theatre's Winter Words Festival, started the ball rolling 7 years ago. This runs for ten days at the end of January in to February each year. We went to a couple of events this year, one about Wolves being reintroduced in to Scotland and the second about mapping and the Ordinance Survey, both were excellent.

 The Pitlochry Lighting Committee installed Winter Lights as opposed to the traditional Christmas Lights. These were switched on in October at the start of the Enchanted Forest 17 days and will be left on until the end of February (is my understanding).

 Now Kenmore at the end of Loch Tay, near Aberfeldy is inaugurating a Winter Week running from Wednesday 16^th February to Sunday 27^th February. Daily cruises on Loch Tay, Scottish Crannog Tours, music, woodworking workshops, story telling, chocolate making to name a few. This event is cleverly positioned during the children's school half term holidays. Speaking to Barrie Andrian of the Scottish Crannog Centre, the master mind behind the whole event, she is hoping longer term the Winter Week will spread across the whole of Highland Perthshire.