Blog Entries from Scottish Islands Explorer
Blogs (web logs) and blogspots provide a unique insight into Highland life and nature in Lochaber and The West Highlands.
The titles and text snippets give a taste of each entry with direct links to the main blog entry on the host website.
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Last Update: Monday, February 18, 2019 - 08:00
An Lanntair, in Stornoway, plans to show films on selected Sundays in 2019 following a trial period earlier this year. Supporters of the local tradition of keeping the Sabbath as free as possible...
The MS Magellan sets sail from Dundee on Saturday 14 June 2019 for a cruise to Norway and then around several Scottish islands. It's to commemorate the heritage of the newspaper publishers, D C...
"Look out, behind you!" could be applied to these three on Foula, the distant Shetland isle. They may not be aware that in 1582, when Scotland adopted the new Gregorian calendar with the rest of...
When a photograph of the lighthouse at Lossiemouth, taken by Gillian Brown, looks like an oil painting, then you know the gallery of images in the BBC Your Pictures of Scotland makes excellent...
Here's the place to wake on a Boxing Day morning. There will have been a party last night at Berneray with convivial company, for the Gatliff Hostels customarily draw an interesting number of...
There's still time to gift … a subscription to Scottish Islands Explorer and its digital edition. The cost is under tenner (£10 sterling) for six issues lasting a whole year. Just click on below and...
Here are two photographs of Orkney - above from Orkney.com and below from McKinlay Kidd - that well depict feature aspects of the archipelago. However, for a gallery of images for which you can vote...
Here's a distant shelter - one of the five bothies on Sula Sgeir - some 40 miles north of Port of Ness at the extremity of the Isle of Lewis. The 'gannet skerry' is renowned for the annual cull of...
The Press and Journal has a report about the theft of a 7' long claymore from the Museum on the Isle of Canna. It's a mystery.Scottish Islands Explorer - has relatively little crime to reportDigital...
From March 2019, Loganair and Stobart Aviation Services will join forces, in a five-year contract, at Glasgow and Edinburgh Airports. Aircraft will be provided by the former to destinations,...
