Ardnamurchan Area Blogs
Blogs (web logs) provide an ideal opportunity to explore the traditions, culture and wildlife of Wild Lochaber. We have put together a collection of local blogs and provide the titles and text snippets to give a taste of each entry with direct links to the main blog entry on the host website. We hope you will find time to explore the full articles and further information on the host blog sites.
Please feel free to contact us if you have any suggestions for blogs you would like to see here.
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As the year draws to a close, we would like to thank all of our volunteers for their support this year, and to thank our community and local businesses for their generous donations in 2022, to help fund our community projects. Here is a brief update of our news and upcoming events. Sunart Community...
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Oakwood Centre Strontian: 2022 – the year to October Oakwood reopened in April with a new Coordinator, Karyn Simpkinson, to begin a very busy year. With the lifting of CV19 restrictions, we opened at the beginning of the season and welcomed locals, visitors and many, many ‘Lochs...
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We like to think we're safe in wild places. Mostly we are, but every now and again someone has an unpleasant experience like the one alongside, shared on our Torino Nice Rally WhatsApp group. This reportedly happened in the town of Tende.I experienced nothing approaching this, but...
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I cycled the Torino Nice Rally in September 2022. I took ten days to complete my ride, which was deliberately slow, as no one ever returned from such an amazing adventure saying "I wish I'd gone faster", it was always the reverse.You can see the Short videos I shot and edited during the ride...
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Organisers of cycling events, an environmentally aware bunch, increasingly insist their competitors reach the start without using aircraft. The Torino Nice Rally might go this way, although the organiser James Olsen tells me he wants to keep it rideable in 5-days (just!) so people can...
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At home in Scotland, I found it hard to get my head around the nature of the Torino Nice Rally. Now I think of it as four, high-level Italian military gravel roads (Strada Assietta, Strada Cannoni, Altiplano della Gardetta and Via del Sale) linked together by a series of road cols, most...
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On Saturday 15th June at 1200hrs at the Community Garden, which is at Sonachan, direction Lighthouse, there will be a picnic event open to all. Tea, coffee and salads will be available and could you bring a drink or food contribution for what is described as a pot luck lunch. Sounds amazing, I may...
