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Wanderings: Cairngorms May 2015
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Thoughts and notes on travel and photography. Usually in cold remote places. The story so far. The plan is to walk from Loch an Eilein, up into the Lairig Ghru each month during 2015. In January, fabulous clear blue skies, but was eventually forced to retreat by thigh-deep soft snow. In Febuary, still sunny but had to turn back when the wind through the Lairig Ghru was lifting me off my feet. In April, more sunshine and fast disappearing snow meant that I again got to top of the Lairig Ghru. I don't mind...
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Wanderings: May 2015
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Thoughts and notes on travel and photography. Usually in cold remote places. The story so far. The plan is to walk from Loch an Eilein, up into the Lairig Ghru each month during 2015. In January, fabulous clear blue skies, but was eventually forced to retreat by thigh-deep soft snow. In Febuary, still sunny but had to turn back when the wind through the Lairig Ghru was lifting me off my feet. In April, more sunshine and fast disappearing snow meant that I again got to top of the Lairig Ghru. I don't mind...
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Wanderings: The Flow Country
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Thoughts and notes on travel and photography. Usually in cold remote places. In the far north of Scotland, beyond the traditional northern scenery of mountains and glens lies that mysterious place called the Flow Country. Into the Flow Country. Trackside on the Far North Line. The recent history of the area hasn’t been uneventful either. Evidence for both of these ‘transformations’ are still obvious. There are over-grazed moorlands with big herds of deer - the evidence for over-grazing most dramatic when...
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Wanderings: December 2014
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Thoughts and notes on travel and photography. Usually in cold remote places. After rather too long a gap, I did finally get to spend a little bit of time taking pictures on Shetland before the Christmas holidays kicked in. As you might expect at this time of year Shetland provided every sort of weather. From snow at the start of the week, just enough to make the wee roads slithery. Snow at Hays Dock, Lerwick. Sunshine and Waves at Scat Ness. Waves breaking over Runway 09 at Sumburgh Airport. On lots of o...
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Wanderings: Walking the Walk, July 2015
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Thoughts and notes on travel and photography. Usually in cold remote places. Walking the Walk, July 2015. This is the seventh iteration this year of my monthly walk up the Lairig Ghru. Loch an Eilein, Rothiemurchus Estate. 8211; and at least as I walked up from Loch an Eilein into the Lairig Ghru the rain was blowing against my back. Climbing through the Forest. The other change was less welcome. The slightly warmer weather and (on the day I was walking) light winds gave the legendary Scottish midges...
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Wanderings: Andrew Riddell 1887-1915
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Thoughts and notes on travel and photography. Usually in cold remote places. My great-grandfather died at Gallipoli in July 1915, he was 28. This is what I know about him. In the summer of 1914 Andrew Riddell was working as a wool powerloom turner in the Scottish border town of Hawick. He’d got married in February 1910, and by 1914 had three small children. He was also a member of the local Territorial Army, part of the 4th Battalion of the Kings Own Scottish Borderers (KOSBs). In Hawick a memorial servi...
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Wanderings: Place Notes
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Thoughts and notes on travel and photography. Usually in cold remote places. A number of people have asked about the logistics of getting to take some of the pictures that appear on this blog and on my various other websites, so I’ve put together a series of short notes about getting to the various places, and in some cases about how to get around once you get there. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Oxford, United Kingdom. View my complete profile. North South Images Website. Daily images on Blipfoto. Another...
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Wanderings: Rewilding Britain
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Thoughts and notes on travel and photography. Usually in cold remote places. I saw today that Rewilding Britain. Is starting to become visible, and is looking for a first Director. This is a new charity being established in the UK, to give nature the chance to reclaim at least part of the country. I'd love one day to be able to walk through a restored forest with just the glimmer of a hope that the rustle in the undergrowth nearby might be a wildcat or lynx. I'd love one day to walk along a natural river...
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Wanderings: February 2015
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Thoughts and notes on travel and photography. Usually in cold remote places. In both January and February I've been able to spend time exploring the Rothiemurchus Forest in the Cairngorms National Park. This is part of the Rothiemurchus Estate, and is a remnant of the ancient Caledonian Forest that spread across huge areas of Scotland. Last year part of the Rothiemurchus Estate changed hands for the first time in over 500 years, being sold from the Grant family to Forestry Commission Scotland. This is th...
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Wanderings: Sri Lanka October 2011
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Thoughts and notes on travel and photography. Usually in cold remote places. Sri Lanka October 2011. It’s not that we were deliberately ignoring the country – we’ve been to England Sri Lanka Test matches, and just after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami we talked about visiting in response to the pleas for tourists to come back to the country. Somehow other plans and destinations kept getting in the way. We based our itinerary on a 10 day trip that WildlifeWorldwide. Rock Temple, Dambulla. We were rewarded b...
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