- June 5, 2023This is the longest enclosed glen in Scotland at over 34 miles. There are a few things that make it…
- July 26, 2019The lovely Nine Glens bite deeply into the basalts of the Antrim plateau and into the hard overlays of modern…
- January 21, 2019‘Wi’ isquebae, we’ll face the devil. Burn’s line is touchily ambiguous (strange how the expression evolved as Dutch and not…
- July 7, 2017The turbulent Tory Sound separates this windswept island from the north-western corner of mainland Donegal. Given that rough weather can…
- February 25, 2016“Praise the beach when you come to it”, runs the Gaelic saying, and Rossnowlagh (the Wood of the Apples) is…
- July 22, 2015A professor of Spanish and a professor of Gaelic met at a conference and began discussing the relative merits…
- June 9, 2015If you think Scotland has no decent beaches, wait till you see the west coast of South Harris. The blinding…
- April 1, 2015Harris, to the south of Lewis, is the scenic jewel in the necklace of islands that comprise the Outer…
- January 12, 2015The Knoydart Peninsula is the only sizeable area in Britain that remains inaccessible to the motor car, cut off by…
- November 17, 2010Donegal is actually an Ulster county. It is in the West. Though it is in the " Eurozone " (uses…