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Conquering the Cairngorms’ Angels and Demons: Braeriach, The Angel’s Peak, Cairn Toul and The Devil’s Point
When it comes to planning a trip to the Cairngorms National Park, the biggest challenge is its size. There’s a whopping 4,500sq kilometres of it. To put that into perspective […]
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Lemon Drizzle Cake
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Snapshots of the Cairngorms National Park
If you’d asked me a couple of months ago to name my favourite national park, I’d probably have been torn between Snowdonia, the Yorkshire Dales and the Lake District. But […]
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A Whistle-Stop Tour of Niagara Falls
After a fleeting visit to Hamilton – spent largely discovering the surrounding nature trails and not the town itself – we moved on to our next stop: Niagara Falls. Niagara […]
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Marmalade Loaf Cake
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Puffin-Spotting at the Isle of May National Nature Reserve
Puffins are, quite possibly, the most endearing species of bird – and the Isle of May National Nature Reserve is home to thousands of them. 46,000 pairs, in fact, according […]
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Pentland Hills Regional Park: Hare Hill via Loganlea Reservoir and Maiden’s Cleugh
Hare Hill is, for me at least, the jewel in the Pentland Hills Regional Park’s crown. We’ve hiked up it in March, September, February and June (in that order, since […]
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Chocolate Mud Cake
Enter: a fluffy chocolate sponge, smothered in 70% dark chocolate ganache and edged with milk and white chocolate fingers. I completed the mud bath with five little fondant piggies on […]
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Loch Rannoch and Glen Lyon: A Weekend of Cycling and Munro-Bagging
Although I spent a fair chunk of the Easter break penning the penultimate assignment for my PGDE (I can’t even begin to tell you how relieved I was to see […]
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Lime and Coconut Loaf Cake
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