I always seem to build up to-do, to-read, to-see, to-visit etc lists. In terms of local walking and exploration, I had a few things...

I've heard many walkers say they find long forest trails monotonous - particularly if it's a managed plantation of ubiquitous pine. I can...

A few miles along the road from me is the ex-mining village of High Valleyfield. Sitting on a ridge of land, the settlement grew around...

I'm always on the lookout for local hills to climb. A couple of years ago I scaled The Binn which overlooks Burntisland on the Firth of...

The 40-mile river trail starts in the middle of Glasgow and winds its way upstream to the historic village of New Lanark. This report...

I've been obsessed with dismantled railways ever since my dad took me as a small boy for a tramp along some of the old lines around my...

The large plantation between Cairneyhill and Kincardine is known as Devilla Forest. Operated by the Forestry Commission, many of the...

We live on the western fringes of the Kingdom of Fife, a natural peninsula which juts out between Edinburgh and Dundee. The Fife Coastal...

The weekly bus ticket I use for commuting to work is valid throughout Fife and also includes a few surrounding territories, one of which...

Nicole and I were sitting in Café Wynd, Dunfermline, trying to think of an interesting bird-related expedition, something different to...

I go to eastern Germany a couple of times each year. My wife Nicole is from a region known as the Uckermark which is a rural area north...

On the fringes of Stirlingshire, Polmont is perhaps best known for its young offenders institution. Just outside the town, there is much...