Tag: Scottish Highlands and Islands
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An unconventional community in Scoraig, Scotland – September
The morning after our arrival in Badrallach, waves of rain were washing over us. We set off for interesting-sounding community of Scoraig towards the end of the peninsula: someone we had met at the campsite on a previous occasion had told us about it, as he had grown up there, and we had made a…
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Arriving again in Torridon, Wester Ross, Scotland – September
The day after we went up Ben Nevis, it was raining from early morning. We did some laundry at the campsite, and then drove off down the Great Glen, through Inverness, and on until we reached Torridon in Wester Ross. In Fort William, we had seen runners preparing for the Ben Nevis race. When we…
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Ben Nevis via the back way, Lochaber, Scotland – September
Going up Ben Nevis (which we had never been up before) via the Carn Mor Dearg Arete had at some point recently gone on our shortlist of what we wanted to achieve on this trip. It was one out of three things we most wanted to do, the other two being An Teallach in Dundonnell…