I was recently invited to spend a free night in a Shepherd’s Hut in the beautiful Dumfries & Galloway countryside and how could I say no? Dumfries and Galloway is one of my favourite places in Scotland and is underrated and overlooked by many in my opinion. See? I love it! I’ve also never spent a night in a Shepherd’s …
How To Spend A Day In Belfast
So you are thinking of visiting Belfast and you aren’t sure what you should see, where you should go or what you should get up to. Or perhaps you have never thought of visiting this city before and you want to find out if it is worth visiting and what it can offer you. Well, I recently visited Belfast and …
Why You Should Climb Corserine and the Rhinns of Kells
Is there a summit somewhere in the world that you have reached more than once? Is there a cairn somewhere high up, that you have gotten used to seeing? That you could happily climb to another dozen times and not get bored of it? There is for me and it is called Corserine, a Corbett in the Galloway Forest Park …
Millfore: A Forgotten Summit
Millfore is a hill I have walked past on multiple occasions. Each time, I have been going somewhere else and each time I have thought to myself: “I really ought to climb that one day”. I recently did bag this hill and I had such fun I decided to make a blog post on it! What Actually is Millfore? Millfore …
Ben Hope: The Most Northerly Munro
The Wonderfully To-The-Point Sign I know what you’re thinking: “what’s so special about Ben Hope?”. Well, for one thing, it is the most northerly Munro. That alone makes it pretty special if you are interested in bagging the mountains that are ‘the most’ something. I’d already bagged Mount Keen, the most easterly Munro a few years ago and when the …
2018 in Pictures: My Favourites!
To mark the end of 2018, I thought it’d be nice to take a look back at this years adventures! I have driven well over a thousand miles this year, I have climbed many mountains throughout the UK and I have been in many gorgeous towns. So sit back, grab a coffee, and join me in having a look at …
A Weekend in Wales: Bagging Snowdon
My recent trip to Wales saw me do something I have wanted to do for years: bagging Snowdon, the largest mountain Wales (and the largest mountain in the UK out with the Scottish Highlands). At 3,560ft Snowdon even towers over some of Scotland’s Munro’s and I knew it would be a brilliant way to end my weekend in Wales! You …
A Weekend in Wales: My First Dayinsure Wales Rally GB
I recently drove over 300 miles from Scotland to Aberystwyth in Wales for one reason: to watch Wales Rally GB! Now I know what you are likely thinking….why!? Isn’t it just cars sliding about in the mud? Isn’t it cold? Can you even get a coffee? Allow me to answer those questions. Yes, Yes & Yes. And it was brilliant. …
The Bone Caves at Inchnadamph
I went to see the Bone Caves at Inchnadamph during my recent route of the North Coast 500. I didn’t include a detailed report on the caves in my article on the North Coast 500 because of all the other things I did, yet this felt unfair as they were such a memorable part of the trip! Below is a …
A Guide to the North Coast 500
When a friend of mine asked me if I would like to do the North Coast 500 I have to be honest…I’d never heard of it. Once he explained that it was a 500 mile road-trip around the very north of Scotland, beginning and ending in Inverness, I immediately said yes. How could I refuse? I adore the Scottish Highlands. …