JUDY MURRAY IS A WINNER AT CROMLIX by guest blogger Fiona Duncan
New hotels in sleepy corners of Scotland don’t often cause a stir, but then home-grown Wimbledon champions such as Andy Murray don’t often become hoteliers. Name a British countryside hotel that you love, and it will be because it has an owner who passionately cares about it. In the case of Cromlix, near Dunblane, in Perthshire, it’s not the absent Murray who gives this place life, but his mother. Judy Murray is elegant, relaxed and a natural communicator. Andy may have decided to buy Cromlix, and his girlfriend Kim has had a large hand in the way it now looks, but they live in Surrey and travel the world; Judy lives a few minutes away and while the hotel is run by a management company, Inverlochy, she will, I’m sure, be the one to give it depth and a sense of place.