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Tom Weir | Along The Solway
NOW and then comes a day of sheer perfection, when the sun shines from sunrise to sunset, and this was it. I was on the Solway on the estuary of […]
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Tom Weir | Talking Point in Argyll
Tom Weir and fellow adventure writer Willie Shand explored glorious Loch Goil – and debate the newly constructed caravan park I didn’t know that Willie Shand was such an early bedder or I […]
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Tom Weir | The Hills of Dee
There we were, Adam Watson and myself, watching the sunset gold on the winding Dee from the top of a heathery hill above Glen Dye… Through a gap in the […]
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Tom Weir | The Land of Knapdale
Knapdale holds some incredible and ancient secrets – for those who know where to look… The trouble about driving to North Knapdale in brilliant weather is that before you can […]
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Big Push To Raise Funds for Edinburgh’s St Columba’s Hospice
In the lead up to Hospice Week 2015, which runs until October 11, hundreds of people took to the Pentland Hills on September 19 for a major charity fundraising event […]
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Tom Weir | Three Men In A Boat
Tom Weir braved the rough and open sea with a couple of friends in order to fully explore the smaller Hebridean isles… “There’s nothing quite like being on the sea at night in a […]
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Tom Weir | A Good Life On Gigha
In busy Tarbert, Loch Fyne, you couldn’t buy a fish supper, such was the throng of yachts whose crews had cleaned out the shop. Sunshine and a south-easterly breeze had […]
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Jamie Scott’s Pop-Up Restaurant Hits The Spot!
It’s not every day Jamie Scott, winner of Masterchef: The Professionals 2014 and one of Scotland’s top chefs offers to cook your tea, so how could I refuse? Jamie, who […]
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Tom Weir | Shepherd of Artney
In June 1977, Tom Weir wrote this column for us on his friend, Pat Macnab, a traditional shepherd. It is incredible to think of how much has changed in this […]
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Tom Weir | Over the Girth Gate
This week saw the official opening of the Borders Railway, which has been closed for 46 years. How fitting, therefore, that our article from Tom Weir’s 1977 archives concerns the […]
