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WHAT DO YOU WANT TO FIND IN SCOTLAND? LET US FIND IT FOR YOU... A PERSONAL SERVICE FROM YOUR TEAM HERE IN SCOTLAND No matter what you're looking for in Scotland...You'll find it here. From personalised golfing goods to a Stags-Horn Handled Sgian Dubh. From the very best of Scottish Jewellery to your Clan badges and belt buckles. From a picture of your favourite Scottish team picking up their cup/league winners medals from whichever year to a copy of the local newspaper from the actual day. And if it's not here, let find-it-in-scotland work for you. You'll find the form for making your personal enquiry at the bottom of this page.
Our unique Scot-Quest service means that if you can't find what you want through the site our team of researchers - 'on the ground' - will find what you're looking for. Specialised accommodation - no problem, we'll find it. Weird and wonderful gifts for any occasion...let our Gift-Idea team suggest something special - A few lines in Scots for a special occasion, a specially written toast in Scots or Gaelic (if you're willing to try it) for any occasion. Maybe a photo of the street where your family lived 50 years ago: if it's available, we'll track it down. Do you want a special gift, like an engraved Quaich? Do you need some help to think of one? How about a few lines in Scots, for a special occasion? An up-to-date picture of the place where your roots are? - or an old one!
Find-it-in-Scotland???... How does it work? As the site develops we will be a link between the suppliers of everything from goods and services to providers of any information you may want. You will be able to click on the various sections to find anything from Arbroath Smokies to Zoological Gardens around Scotland - the A-Z...all under one roof. *** We are busy talking to companies providing everything from quality Scottish Shortbread to Kilts, from producers of original (and traditional) Scottish jewellery to manufacturers of everything tartan and tweed. Accomodation, car hire, restaurants, visitor attractions, will all be on site *** 
Want us to find a hotel as near as possible to the Golf Open [or to rent a house nearby; our section Scots.Prop.Swap will be set up for this]... no problem, the team will get straight on to it. Want car hire that is adapted for a wheelchair...no problem...we'll find it. Want tickets for Phantom of the Opera at the Edinburgh Playhouse...leave it to us, we'll get straight on to it.
*** Itinerary Planning. Want an itinerary worked out for your visit to Scotland, hire car arranged, special places of beauty and interest recommended, accomodation booked in advance and restaurant recommendations for the various stops on your tour?...no problem...leave it to our Itinerary Team. *** If you can't find what you are looking for on through the various links on the site - just fill in the form below and tell us exactly what you are looking for. We do realise that this will be needed for most visitors, in our early days, till the site is fully furnished with the relevant links and information. DON'T LET THAT STOP YOU ASKING FOR OUR HELP MEANTIME. (Or as we might say "dinna let sic a wee thing hinner ye!" (don't let such a small thing prevent you.) Our aim is to provide the best quality Scottish Goods and Services...at the best discounts we can negotiate.
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The Quaich has a rich heritage in Scotland - indeed, this is a uniquely Scottish invention, having no apparent connection to any other European drinking vessel. It's a traditional Scottish drinking vessel to offer a guest a cup of welcome and also as a farewell drink, usually a dram of whisky. Travellers would often carry a quaich with them. They were used for whisky and brandy but larger quaichs were used for ale. (The largest surviving examples hold about 1.5 pints).
It's believed that one of its ancestors was the scallop shell, in which drams of whisky were taken in the Highlands and Islands. Like the shells, quaichs were always wide and shallow. The distinctive shape has been fixed now for possibly more than four hundred years.
