Branstree & Selside Pike

2023 has been a really busy year for us – and so day trips to the Lake District to bag a few Wainwrights have taken a bit of a back seat. It’s seemed like every…

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Rievaulx Abbey

Every year, I’m tricked into thinking that autumn and winter aren’t so bad after all by some lovely sunny autumn days. And then we get to the end of November and those crisp autumn days…

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Autumn in Big Tree Country: a Week in Highland Perthshire, Part Two

Last week’s blog was all about what we got up to in the first half of our trip to Highland Perthshire. Before we arrived, the weather forecast was so bad that I wasn’t sure we’d…

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Autumn in Big Tree Country: a Week in Highland Perthshire, Part One

I don’t think there’s anywhere that does Autumn quite as spectacularly as Highland Perthshire. It’s sometimes referred to as ‘Big Tree Country’, which is accurate in both the literal and the metaphorical sense. More than…

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Marwick Head

If you’ve read either of my previous blogs about our trip to Orkney, you might recall that I mentioned that we got up to far too much to squeeze it all into a few blog…

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