Tag: Cairngorms

These days there are book festivals everywhere you look, from the dizzy heights of Hay-on-Wye to the cultured calm of Cheltenham.  Last weekend, however, I went out to the seaside to visit a festival...

We are (not terribly comfortably, it must be said) seated in the Bosco Theatre, a wooden tent in the middle of George Street. Outside it’s pouring, and inside it’s decidedly damp; cagouls are gently...

It was my last hill-walk of the season.  As we came down Carn an Righ (hill of the king) the dark clouds were closing in around us.  It was definitely autumn and the rolling...