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 grew up in Lochgelly, 8 miles equidistant from the larger towns of Kirkcaldy and Dunfermline. Both places have large amounts of...

Autumn woodland walking is a colourful experience and with a promising Sunday weather forecast, we decided an outing in a deciduous...

Another day off work coinciding with the evening Edinburgh German meet-up. I planned a city wander for the afternoon. My route would take...

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...

Two weeks off work and a three-night stay at Lunan Bay was on the agenda. It's a beautiful coastal spot between Arbroath and Montrose. We...

I've always supported the idea of Scottish independence. I was inspired by Jim Sillar's legendary speech after winning the Govan...

Cramond is a charming village to the northwest of Edinburgh. Most people these days would regard it as a suburb of the city and it has...

An outlying spur on the capital city network of old railway paths runs westwards to the suburb of Davidson's Mains. At just under three...

The Scottish Railway Preservation Society own five miles of track from Bo'ness on the Firth of Forth to a junction with the main...

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...

One of the great things about online mapping is you often find walking trails purely by chance. I had spotted a route along the River...

The new town of Livingston is an outpost on the Stagecoach Megarider Plus zone and it was on a Sunday morning I left Dunfermline bus...

A gloriously sunny Saturday at the end of September. A day for hanging out the washing early doors then head off exploring. I'd had...

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...

Located 40 miles north of Inverness, the village of Embo has a population of a few hundred people and lies in the sprawling Highland...

The month of September hosts Doors Open Day across Scotland. It gives the public an opportunity to tour buildings and locations that are...