Dark Dornoch Walk
Dornoch keeps some strange stories, and as the nights draw in its museum takes you round the town to hear them.
Scottish Opera is on the road this autumn with a small, touring Hansel and Gretel, and Ullapool is one of its stops. Humperdinck's fairy tale is sung in English by a cast of five, with a piano in place of the orchestra, so it suits a first opera as much as a seasoned ear, and the witch's gingerbread house never loses its pull on a dark November night. It comes to the Macphail Theatre on Tuesday 3 November at 7pm. The performance runs about two hours, with a 20-minute interval. Tickets are through Scottish Opera's box office on 0141 248 4567.
Ullapool, in Ross and Cromarty
Arrives at 5am every day.
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Dornoch keeps some strange stories, and as the nights draw in its museum takes you round the town to hear them.

Logie Steading, on the Logie Estate at Dunphail near Forres, makes a lovely setting for an afternoon with a camera.
Autumn on Arran brings out the conkers, and the Ormidale Hotel in Brodick is putting them to good use with its Open Conker Championship on Sunday 1 November.