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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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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