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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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 Corrieshalloch Gorge

The Corrieshalloch Gorge is a prime stop on the North Coast 500. A dramatic, seemingly bottomless gorge, with a tumbling waterfall framed by towering trees. We’d passed by this way quite a few times before…

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Ben Bhraggie and Big Burn

When we go to Scotland, we generally don’t decide which walks we’re planning to do until the day before the walk. We might have a short list with a few ideas on it, but generally…

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