After a week in the big city with its bright lights, buzzing crowds, churning traffic, tall buildings and the exciting but exhausting feelin...

Part of the delight of being in Edinburgh during the festival month of August is to roam the streets watching the jugglers, musicians, singe...

Henry David Thoreau’s writings, especially Walden, his account of living in a cabin in the woods, have achieved iconic status amongst wilder...

Edinburgh Festival Fringe: The Tao of Everest Listed under theatre in the Festival Fringe guide and described as “an emotional and uplifting...

Last night I went to see one of the star events at this years Edinburgh International Festival,the multi-media St Kilda Island of the Birdme...

As I said in my post on cameras for backpacking (July 28) the original Ricoh GRD is the best designed digital camera I’ve used. In fact usin...

A good weather forecast sent me off to the Isle of Skye at the end of last week. In August fine weather often means hazy conditions not cond...