Saturday was one of those strange days where the weather forecast changed, leaving me not particularly inspired where to go...
Caithness Holiday Day 4: when a forest is not a wood
Sometimes I have to tell it like it is. Dunnet Forest is one of the least pleasant collections of trees...
Caithness Holiday Day 3: Strathnaver and Strathmore are not Caithness
As the weather dictated, a slight detour from the east coast away out to the centre and west of the...
Caithness Holiday Day 2: Whaligoe Steps and Camster Cairns
Many moons ago... the parents and I were on holiday around Caithness and having trouble finding the way to Whaligoe...
Exploring Strathearn
I spent a happy evening exploring the Quoig area in Strathearn - the floodplain of the river Earn between Comrie...
West Woods of Ethie
It was one of those crazy late-spring days with a clear divide in the weather - everywhere north of the...
Aberdeenshire Coast: Catterline
I'd never really explored much of the Aberdeenshire coastline. On Saturday, however - feeling liberated from EV range anxiety -...
Birks of Aberfeldy
A few weeks ago, I spent a happy Saturday afternoon strolling around the Birks of Aberfeldy, testing the newly acquired...
Waterfalls and Mountains
We spent Saturday afternoon driving around the Tay Forest Park - up to the Mains of Taymouth at Kenmore for...
Spittal of Glenshee
I don't remember much about the hotel in Spittal of Glenshee - I suspect I saw it a few times...
Tillicoultry Quarry
Continuing the theme of mankind's interaction with nature: exploring Tillicoultry Quarry by drone for some interesting angles on the rock...
Around Bangour
Situated outside Livingston, the psychiatric hospital at Bangour Village was founded in 1906 as Edinburgh District Asylum - one of...
Sma’ Glen: liminal landscape
Many years ago, as I was buying my first ever house in Perth, I remember the solicitor advocating the Sma'...