photographs: people, places & things
Drone shots from Scotland – Loch Linnhe & the east coast While the main blog posts cover our two-week route from ground level, taking to the air with the DJI Mini Pro 4 drone gave us a completely different perspective on the landscape. Framing these locations from a couple of hundred feet up reveals patterns […]
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Scotland trip Part 2: fascinating light on untamed Orkney Part 1 of the road trip saw us spend a really enjoyable five days in Fort William. But the main event for us was yet to come and the new experience of our trip to Orkney was in our minds. We didn’t take the most direct […]
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Happiness in the Highlands, Orkney and the east coast Scotland in October is straightforward enough. You can reasonably expect fewer tourists, shorter days, and plenty of damp weather. I suppose it’s fair to say you should almost always prepare for damp weather whatever time of year you visit Scotland. What I do get every time […]
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Coming soon to the rainycity blog… Visit Scotland epic castles, coasts and driving Routes. Words and pictures from a magnificent couple of weeks in the Scottish highlands, the West Coast, Orkney before finishing off on the east coast. The trip was altogether different from the last trip I wrote about, when we visited Liverpool and […]
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Red Kites and coastal paths a great week in Galloway: Part 3 Port Logan Fishpond In Part 2 I mentioned the decent time we had visiting Port William and St Ninians Cave. The next trip from our base in Newton Stewart was to head about 30 miles or so west to the small village of […]
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Red Kites and coastal paths a great week in Galloway: Part 2 Morning in Newton Stewart In Part 1 of this series of post I wrote about staying in Newton Stewart. The town of Newton Stewart is in the Dumfries and Galloway area. We decided we would head out for the day, do some walking […]
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Red Kites and coastal paths a great week in Galloway: Part 1 This is quite a different series of posts than the last one when my son and I travelled down to Wembley for the FA Cup Final. In fact it was just the day before the Cup Final that my wife and I got […]
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Another trip to Scotland – short break in Newton Stewart (2) In part 1 I mentioned that my wife and I have holidayed together many many times in Scotland as well as having travelled pretty extensively in Scotland on my own by motorbike (my most recent bike trip there was in August last year). There […]
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Another trip to Scotland – short break in Newton Stewart (1) We have holidayed together many many times in Scotland and I have travelled pretty extensively on my own by motorbike over the years (my most recent bike trip there was in August last year) I have said many times over the years that I […]
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Visit to Lochalsh and the Isle of Skye. Part 4 – drone video This the final addition to the short series of posts following a recent trip to Scotland. This post has five short video clips filmed with the DJI Mini 4 Pro drone that I bought earlier this year. In the previous parts in […]
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