Whaligoe Steps
A walk down the spectacular Whaligoe Steps, 300 steps down to an old fishing station on the Caithness coast.
I’m slowly getting through all these miscellaneouses and recategorising them! What a fun job…
A walk down the spectacular Whaligoe Steps, 300 steps down to an old fishing station on the Caithness coast.
An exploration of the centuries-old Sinclair Mausoleum, near Ulbster in Caithness.
A quick stop in Helmsdale, Sutherland, en route to the island of Stroma. A place well worthy of a return visit.
A preview of July’s Reading Female Travel Writers title, A Ride in the Neon Sun by Josie Dew.
My review of June’s title in my Reading Female Travel Writers series – Rose Macaulay’s beautiful if plodding Fabled Shore.
My preview of June’s Reading Female Travel Writers title, Fabled Shore by Rose Macaulay.
My review of May’s title in my Reading Female Travel Writers series – Kathleen Jamie’s Among Muslims.
Next in my 2017 “Reading Female Travel Writers” quest is my preview of May’s title, Kathleen Jamie’s Among Muslims: Meetings at the Frontiers of Pakistan.
My review of April’s title in my Reading Female Travel Writers mission – Jenny Diski’s powerful and beautiful Skating to Antarctica.
A preview of April’s title in my Reading Female Travel Writers mission – Jenny Diski’s Skating to Antarctica.
My review of March’s title in my Reading Female Travel Writers mission – Fi Glover’s fun and informative Travels With My Radio.
A preview of March’s title in my Reading Female Travel Writers mission – Fi Glover’s Travels With My Radio.
My second book review in my 2017 quest to read female-authored travel writing – Dervla Murphy’s Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle.
My preview of February’s title for my Reading Female Travel Writers project: Dervla Murphy’s Full Tilt.
My review of the first book in my 2017 quest to read female-authored travel writing – the Virago Book of Women Travellers.
My preview of the first title in my “reading female travel writers” project: The Virago Book Of Women Travellers, edited by Mary Morris and Larry O’Connor.
An introduction to my 2017 project of reading female travel writers.
An exploration of two of Knoydart’s constructed landmarks – a statue of Mary and a vanity construct by a Nazi sympathiser.
A cycle from Inverie to Knoydart’s other main settlement of Airor.
An account of a cracking day’s hillwalking in Knoydart that took in Luinne Bheinn and Meall Bhuidhe.