The North Our Home – A Week in Orkney, Part Two

If you read last week’s blog, you’ll know that we recently spent a week exploring the Orkney Islands in Scotland (and if you didn’t know, go back and read last week’s post!). We managed to…

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The North Our Home – A Week in Orkney, Part One

Orkney is somewhere we’ve wanted to visit for a very long time – I think the first time we talked about it was way back in 2018 after our trip to the Far North West…

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The Cairngorms, Volume IV

The Cairngorms is my happy place. I absolutely love it there – as you may gather from the fact that we’ve just returned from our fourth trip there since January 2022. In early September we…

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The Pasture Beck Round

A few months ago, we set out on the Pasture Beck round from Hartsop. It’s a six and a half mile hike which can be done easily in a half day, and bags four Wainwrights:…

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The Fairy Pools

The Isle of Skye is one of those places which has attained an almost mythical status in the minds of travellers all over the world. Nowhere in the UK have we met quite so many…

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