Newark Bay
Although Orkney is a chain of islands, the word ‘beach’ doesn’t spring to mind quite as quickly as ‘prehistory’ or ‘wildlife’. And it’s a shame, as Orkney does indeed have some very respectable sandy beaches.…
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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…
View PostAutumn 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…
View PostMarwick 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…
View PostThe 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…
View PostThe 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…
View PostThe 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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