Creag Mhor and Beinn Hearsgarnaich (the latter sometimes spelt Shearsgarnaich) are two remote hills in the Forest of Mamlorn, tucked away i...

The Uath Lochans are a delightful little spot in Glen Feshie, in the southern part of the Cairngorms National Park. Pronounced 'W...

In this fast-paced, lively and hugely enjoyable book, Mark Garnett (a politics lecturer somewhere or other), takes the reader on a rollic...

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Rugby League player and writer Dave Hadfield recounts a bizarre series of events during his team's trip to play 'Sevens' in Ita...

It's many years since I have been down Glen Feshie, and I have few memories of it, other than thinking it was worth a re-visit. It wa...

The Lairig Ghru is a name which reaches back into my young childhood. Around the same time as my Dad read Tolkein to me, he also told me ab...

As readers of this blog will be aware, over the years, I have read about and reflected often on the Shoah , the Holocaust of the European...

Whether performing opera, gospel, or comedy, Jonathan Veira is known as a larger-than-life character, with a powerful voice and big laugh....

If my last Munroing expedition was a disaster in which very little went right ; today's was the opposite - one of the best days in the ...