A life less urban…
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…
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When we returned from the Outer Hebrides in late June we had a couple of days to explore a little further north along the A835 which now forms part of the fiercely trendy NC500 route. For me, the north west Highlands of Scotland have been the most spectacular in terms of landscape. It is beautiful,…
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We continue to travel north and west this week into a landscape which becomes steadily wilder and more dramatic. The mountain peaks hunch ever higher into a lowering grey sky which brings squalls of rain and colder temperatures. The bluebells of spring have given way to fuschia spikes of native foxgloves and great drifts of…
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LIFE PART FIVE 