Carcassonne

Only dead fish follow the current ... are you a dead fish?

Nan Shepherd, the early 20thC Aberdeenshire novelist, had a lifelong love of the Cairngorm Mountains. She spent vast amounts of time explori...

Guests being arranged for a photo.. Last Saturday was a significant day in our family, my little sister got married! The girls spent the mor...

Although the picture isn't mine (it comes from visitscotland), it is a good representation of the way that we spent Saturday morning! We...

This is a quite extraordinary book. As is typical of the ever controversial Driscoll, he is in turns brilliant, perplexing, bewildering, fab...

"The Last Miner" is the latest production from innovative theatre company Tortoise in a Nutshell. In 45 extraordinary and intrig...

The hills of the Black Mount are often overlooked. This is probably because they have the misfortune (as far as their own reputation is conc...

Nick Davies set out to deliberately break the unspoken code of honour which exists amongst investigative journalists: he investigated the st...

Astute observers will have noticed that the little map in the column to the right recently lost all its little red dots, as every year or so...

The View from the door of the Hideous' tent. We're all back home from the church youth camp, absolutely exhausted, but having had a...

(here endeth the holiday snaps!)

Kylesku - which surprisingly turns out not to be the name of a Romanian spy, by a village in the NW Highlands, graced by a particularly fi...

The Falls of Measach plunge into Corrieshalloch Gorge immediately underneath a little steel suspension bridge that allows walkers to watch ...

Beinn Ghoblach looks more like a water-colour than a photo as it sweats in humid air, while the next rainstorm brews.

A welcome break from the rain, the sun shone, we ran to the beach!

Above Little Gruinard a layby on the A832, gives access to a rough path up onto a little promontory with a wonderful view.

Christian blogger Eli posted a piece yesterday on the day she found out about her Mum's cancer, how it has affected them all, their fait...

This door in the walled garden at Inverewe, appears to have magical properties. Who would have thought that opening it would reveal a secre...

Driving near Grantown on Spey we stopped to eat lunch, and stumbled upon the re-launching ceremony for this engine. 111 years old and now b...