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Tag Archives: Highlands
Scottish Light and Land:
There’s something unique about Scottish light and how it compliments the landforms – just like the Scottish people (and indeed people everywhere), landscapes too have their changing moods, their storms and periods of calm when they shine radiantly like the … Continue reading
New Life in Scotland’s Ancient Forests
On the banks of the River Tay by Dunkeld in Perthshire stands the ancient “Birnam Oak”, reputedly the sole surviving tree of the famed Birnam Wood of Shakespeare’s Macbeth. In Shakespeare’s “Scottish” play, Malcolm’s soldiers camouflaged themselves with branches from Birnam Wood before capturing Macbeth’s stronghold … Continue reading
Posted in History & Culture, In Scotland, Trees & Greenspaces, Wild Places
Tagged ancient woodland, birch, Birnam Oak, Cairngorms, Caledonian Pine Woods, charcoal making, community woodlands, coppicing, Forest of Spey, forest schools, Glen Finglas, Glenmore Forest, Highland Birchwoods, highland clearances, Highlands, history, Loch Lomand and the Trossachs National Park, Loch Tay Woods, Macbeth, native woodlands, oak, Pass of Ryvoan, Perthshire, Scots pine, spirit of place, tanning industry, Trossachs, wood pasture, wood turning, Woodland Trust
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“Scotland: Landscapes and Legends”
For anyone in Aachen and surrounding area; I’ll be making a presentation at the Volkshochschule in Stolberg on the 16th May entitled “Scotland: Landscapes and Legends”. I’ll be talking about exploring Scotland’s wild landscapes on foot and by canoe (including many of the locations mentioned on … Continue reading
Posted in History & Culture, In Europe, In Scotland, Mountain Treks, Wild Places
Tagged Canoe Trips, Highlands, mountains, nature, outdoors, Scottish History, sea kayaking, spirit of place, walking
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Tummel and Tay: Exploring Scotland by Canadian Canoe
In an age dominated by road transport, most journeys these days involve jumping into the car. This was not however always the case; for our ancestors rivers and lochs formed the main communication routes through the landscape. On the River Tay in Perthshire, for example, log … Continue reading
Posted in Canoe Trips, History & Culture, In Scotland, Wild Places
Tagged Aberfeldy, autumn colours, Big Tree Country, Canadian Canoeing, Canoe Trips, Dunkeld, Highland Perthshire, Highlands, history, In Scotland, Kenmore, Killin, Loch Faskally, Loch Tay, Loch Tummel, mountains, nature, outdoors, wellbeing
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Setting up an Adventure Tourism Business: a case of bad timing
Has it ever seemed like the day job is not quite enough ? For years I’d had a nagging feeling that there ought to be more to life than the 9-5 office job staring at computer screen. In some ways I was one of the lucky … Continue reading
Posted in History & Culture, In Scotland, Mountain Treks, Wild Places
Tagged Adventure Tourism, Business, family, Green Tourism, Highlands, history, In Scotland, landscape, legends, mountains, nature, outdoors, Perthshire, spirit of place, walking
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Going Home – A view of Scotland from Europe
I’ve been living in Aachen for over a year and in early November I decided it was time to head home, to reconnect (albeit briefly) with past roots and all things Scottish. Most interestingly I wanted to see how Scotland appeared to me from … Continue reading
Off the Beaten Track 