Author and naturalist Mike Tomkies took our Tom eyrie-checking and to experience the life in the wilds… Just now and then you read a book by an adventurous man which […]

In this column Tom discovers the wealth of history and remarkable landscape to stravaig in the Scottish Borders As the roads get faster, that gentle country of the Borders seems […]

Perched in the bow in oilskins, woollen gloves on against the cold rain and wind, I wondered if I would survive to Tobermory in the yacht Corryvreckan We had sailed […]

  Tom Weir travels the River Clyde, from “God’s Treasurehouse” to Glasgow, and considers the different lives played out on its banks through the ages… Crawford derives its name from […]

In the highest village in Scotland Tom Weir explores its mining culture and remarkable engineering sons In the warm light of the mid-morning sun the Nith Valley was looking better than I […]

After a glorious year of skiing in 1977, Tom Weir looks back at the rise of Scottish skiing, and why it’s a completely different beast to continental skiing… The year […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]