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Railway Records update.
Thanks to a truly amazing and generous group of friends the Dalnaspidal station is now dismantled, denailed and back in the yard at Inshriach. Thanks as well to the Strathspey steam railway for giving us the building, to those of you who sponsored us, to Fergus Thom for coming by to get some of it on film and Aaron Sneddon for the aerial shots. You can see the dismantling over on the Funraiser facebook page.
In a fortunate turn of events the lovely brackets from the front of the station have turned up in amongst the piles of railway ephemera in Boat of Garten, as have the original gutters.
Late availability – 20% off Inshriach House bookings until the end of September
Between the Insider Festival and the Railway funraiser we have slightly taken our eye off the ball as far as late summer bookings are concerned so we are offering 20% off all bookings on Inshriach House until the end of September. That includes photoshoots but not shotgun weddings. If we are going to rebuild the station we need to fill these weeks and raise some money so please get in touch if you have a reason to take a lot of friends on holiday. That means £2400 rather than £3000 for the full week and a mere £1800 for a long weekend.
And if the weather carries on like this who needs to go to the south of France anyway.
Homes and Interiors on the Bothy Project.
This edition of Homes and Interiors magazine has a lovely article by Gabriella Bennett on staying at the Bothy Project. She happened to coincide with a wedding so finished up Saturday night in the unconventional situation (for a a peaceful woodland retreat) of dancing the night away with hundreds of strangers. Watch out for us in the next edition which is going to have a full feature on the estate and all of the oddball things we get up to. This week you can also find us featured in Trout and Salmon magazine and the Strathy has run a piece on the Railway station move. Press-tastic.
Bringing the Station Studio to Inshriach
On the back of an outstanding weekend with the Insider festival (have a look at my photos over on the Inshriach House Facebook page) we now embark on the next round of quick fire travel related nonsense. The Strathspey Steam Railway have kindly donated what is left of Dalnaspidal Railway station, once the highest Railway station in the British Isles, and we are about to strip it down and bring it back here to rebuild it as a recording studio. Its going to take some help and some money to get this done so If you feel like supporting this scheme you can throw a few pounds at us through the paypal button below and we would be forever grateful. You can go to the Funraiser facebook page for updates from the front.
2 weeks until the Insider.
This week we have hit the ground running up at Inshriach. It is now 8 days until Charlie McKerron’s music school kicks off so the priority is to get the lawn finished. The first tent from Inverhall marquees is up which is going to hold the Painting School Restaurant, Artisan Roast Coffee Shop and the Inshriach Nursery cake shop. Because we prefer to make and recycle everything that goes into the Insider the farmyard is a hive of activity and anyone who swings past with a helpful disposition is roped in. Big thanks to Calum and Jen for the day they spent pulling the floors from the chicken sheds for the deluxe Insider travel hotel, then to Paul Millard of Red Kite Yurts for getting very blue making benches for the painting school. Next up, wiring the hotel for bedside tea and coffee facilities and delving back through the signage department to make sure all departure information and international tourist information is up to scratch.
The Insider is looking like another sell out so don’t delay if you want a ticket.
Trip Advisor.
Its been an extremely busy start to the year here, our best yet by some margin, and coming into wedding and festival season the next few months are pretty much full but there is space in July and August so we are taking a few listings to try to drive bookings. We were selected for the 100 Best Self catering website and have now taken a listing with the international behemoth that isHoliday Lettings. That means we now have a Trip Advisor listing. If you have stayed in the house or in the yurt, the Beermoth or the Bothy, or been to the festival and (hopefully) enjoyed it, it would be amazing if you could take a few minutes to tell everyone about it.
Photoshoots.
I have been a bit quiet up here of late purely because we were building up to an enormous month. First up was a shoot for Dune, 3 days of mixed locations, product and models, with stills and filming all around the estate. Their Autumn Winter campaign across film, catalogue and billboard, is going to be heavily Inshriach, with three of the more unusual cars, the yurt, the house and even Monty the dog making their appearances. Location Scotland managed the shoot and did a fine job but the listing for Inshriach isn’t up on their site yet, if you want to see a portfolio of location images for Inshriach you can have a look at JJLocations page. This just happened to coincide with a wedding, of which more later.
Charlie McKerron Music week – one day classes.
In true Insider festival form we have waited until we had the full line up of tutors for Charlie’s music school before telling anyone about it. It’s an absolutely stellar line up too, there is Charlie himself, Lauren MacColl, Dezi Donnelly, Adam Sutherland, Duncan Chisholm, Gordon Gunn and one more surprise tutor waiting in the wings to cover the fiddle, then Ross Ainslie and Tim Edey on whistle and guitar and box respectively.
We are now doing day courses with all of them for £75 per day or you can sign up for the full 5 day extravaganza for either £300 (local non camping) or £350 with food and camping.
To promote the music school we are going to give away one day with each tutor, simply head over to the Inshriach Music facebook page, share it and leave a note saying which tutor you fancy winning a day with and we will draw all the names out of the hat on 28th April. Over at the Insider tickets are selling fast so don’t delay if you want one.
The Beermoth (aka the press-monster) strikes again.
Through the post this morning came two copies of Marie Claire Maison containing a feature that went together last year. The editor, Catherine Ardouin, travelled over specially from Paris with photographer Benedicte Ausset and they shot a full 6 page interiors feature on the Beermoth in what turned into an unusual meeting of French fashion, English machinery, and Highland scenery.
If anyone was wondering why we have been a bit quiet up here of late it is because we have had to get out heads round a financial restructure. The long and the short of it is that as of later this year it is going to cost us a great deal more to stay here and continue doing what we are doing. That means generating a load more business so if anyone is of a mind to take Inshriach House, or any of our more unusual holiday options, now would be a very good time to do it. We have hardly any availability on the main house until July but would very much appreciate the custom thereafter.
True to form however, the best ideas seem to be the most outlandish, and we have something really special up our sleeves. Later this week we ought to be able to announce perhaps the silliest (and therefore most pressworthy) project we have ever undertaken. And the full line up for the Insider Festival.
It’s brewing away in the background but now the sun is out it is all going to happen at once, and it needs to. Watch this space.
Insider Festival 2013.
The Insider Festival 2013 has officially set sail.
The website is live and the first line up announcement is up over at The Insider Festival website. Dates this year are 21st – 23rd June, full weekend tickets are £110 and the musical board of fare is shaping up so fine you would be a fool to miss it.
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