Reviews Archives

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Gear

Smartwool Merino Sport T-shirt – Review

When doing any outdoor activity, you pick the fabric of your base and outer layers carefully. But a T-shirt’s just a T-shirt, right? Wrong!

Gear

Mountain Warehouse Gust Waterproof Jacket – Review

"It’s not just for the great outdoors as it can come in handy for urban occasions too!" - Garry reviews the Mountain Warehouse Gust Waterproof Jacket.

Gear

Decathlon Quechua Arpenaz Family 4.1 Tent – Review

"It can stand up to strong winds on the coast of Mull and deluges in the Cairngorms!" - Nick reviews the Arpenaz Family 4.1 tent on our Gear Guide.

Gear

Keela Ladies’ Liberty Softshell – Review

"When Keela say 'hi-vis yellow' - they really do mean hi-vis yellow!" - Katrina reviews the latest softshell from Keela on our Gear Guide.

Books

Granite Noir – Aberdeen’s Darkest Book Festival

Dawn Geddes takes in the dark side of the Granite City with a visit to Aberdeen’s Granite Noir literary festival

Reviews

Mary, Queen Of Scots: The Cursed Crown – Edinburgh Dungeon Review

Is Mary, Queen of Scots: The Cursed Crown as Edinburgh Dungeon frightfully good or just plain frightful? Gayle Anderson finds out It was frightfully nice of The Edinburgh Dungeon […]

Reviews

Dundee Chamber Music Review

Garry Fraser takes in an incredible Beethoven performance courtesy of the Maxwell Quartet’s performance for Dundee Chamber Music Those lucky enough to attend Dundee Chamber Music’s recent concert in […]

Books

Bloody Scotland Blog

Dawn Geddes was our reporter-on-scene at Scotland's Crime Writing Festival. It was her first time at Bloody Scotland, but she'll definitely be back!

Reviews

A Morning of Mozart with Christian Blackshaw – Review

Christian Blackshaw and soloists of the Berlin Philharmonic performed Schubert and Mozart in their morning concert at the Edinburgh International Festival.