seascape – LIFE PART FIVE

Seabirds at Bow Fiddle Rock

While on my travels these past few months, not only have I been taking thousands of images, but I’ve also been recording snippets of sound when I’ve heard something that particularly surprised or delighted me. I’ve just realised that I can include these sounds here on my blog posts so this is my first attempt!…

Arbroath to Aberdeen via the Cairngorms – photo story

After our visit to the St Andrews Highland Games in late July we decided to follow the coast up through Dundee and round to the small town of Arbroath. Abroath looked like a town that had once seen better days but the tiny streets around the harbour were fascinating, heavy with the ghosts of the…

The Scottish Borders

Our two weeks in Edinburgh are over and we are back on the road, meandering this time through the Scottish Borders. The weather is still hot and sunny and it feels like a fine time to be a nomad. The road stretches enticingly ahead and the landscape is a shimmer of gold and green against…

Islay and Jura – photo story

Images from our time on the magical islands of Islay and Jura in the Inner Hebrides. For more about Islay, please see my recent blog post.

Islay, Queen of the Hebrides

This week brings a welcome pause in our nomadic existence with a long weekend in London, then two weeks camped just east of Edinburgh, near the picturesque village of Aberlady. The London trip was mostly about seeing far flung friends and life admin, but the sheer luxury of our flat after two months on the…

Isle of Harris

We have been travelling for over seven weeks now, winding through the craggy peaks and heather wrapped slopes of the Highlands and the Inner Hebrides. My eye has become so accustomed to the wide open skies and the lonely mountain vistas of this land that memories of my London home seem distant in the extreme.…

Isle of Mull, Kerrera, Staffa and Iona

My favourite images from the Inner Hebrides. Take a look at my blog post to read more about what we did while we were there.