Lovely article in The Guardian newspaper highlighting Scotland's new UNESCO Geopark on Arran. Some light weekend reading to inspire your next geological adventure. www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...

"There are stone bunkers shrouded in the mist on the hillside to my right, just shy of the ridgeline marking the Albanian-Kosovo border. To my left, the view is not just clear but startlingly beautiful." From my hike on the Via Dinarica Kosovo, with the mountaineer Uta Ibrahimi.

I spent a week in #Kosovo hiking with Uta Ibrahimi, who recently became the first woman from the Balkans to climb every 8,000m peak. We walked the Via Dinarica Kosovo, criss-crossing borders with Montenegro & Albania. 👉 On @theguardian.com now: www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...

"why not use a co-working space?" The public library:

really interesting listen, this - particularly for the Edinburgh-based amongst us👇 open.spotify.com/episode/1o7Z...

What's sleepin' in our soul 🫨🤩🎶 I had *unreasonably* high expectations for Oasis last night and they went and exceeded every single one of them. #oasis #acquiesce #murrayfield #edinburgh

Up to the summit of Gjeravica (2,656m) - the highest mountain solely in Kosovo, a stone's throw from the Albanian border 🇽🇰🇦🇱

Along we go... 🇽🇰🇲🇪🇦🇱 A few more shots from the Via Dinarica Kosovo trail. Moving along from the border with Montenegro to the border with Albania and so, to highest mountains in Kosovo.

A taster of yesterday on the Via Dinarica Kosovo - walking the border with Montenegro 🥾

My next story brings me out to Kosovo 🇽🇰 I'm going to be hiking on the Via Dinarica this week, and with a bit of weather luck, getting up Gjeravica - the country's highest peak. Photographs below from Pristina.

I took a voyage along the 26 bus route, down to Portobello, for my latest piece for @theguardian.com. 👉 on why people can’t stay away from Porty, and a community fighting to stop a (now-but-not-always) trendy seaside town from becoming a “holiday let”. In the Saturday pull-out today ⛱️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

The latest edition of Scottish Wildlife dropped through the door today, featuring my cover story on the grey seals of Little Linga and Linga Holm, the northernmost reserves of the Wildlife Trust movement 🦭🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

can't make it on BBC Sco this morning to talk tourist tax unfortunately, but my view is that they're commonplace now for good reason - not a fix-all solution but one extremely effective way to ensure local communities benefit from tourism, preventing overtourism & ill will to tourists

I recently walked the Arran Coastal Way – around Scotland's newest UNESCO Geopark for @theguardian.com. The island route is a journey through 600 million years of history, from tectonic plate collisions and stretching oceans to pre-dinosaur footprints and fossilised lightning strikes 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

I recently walked the Arran Coastal Way – around Scotland's newest UNESCO Geopark for @theguardian.com. The island route is a journey through 600 million years of history, from tectonic plate collisions and stretching oceans to pre-dinosaur footprints and fossilised lightning strikes 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

tennis might just survive without the big 4

victory goes to the most tenacious at Roland Garros and that was EXTREMELY tenacious from Carlos Alcaraz

Nighttime feel at #RolandGarros 🇫🇷

so they say they can't schedule women's matches in the night session at #RolandGarros because fans won't get enough tennis, yet 5/6 of the women's matches in the past 2 days were longer than the 1hr 32 mins it took Alcaraz to beat Paul. Hmmm....

Roland Garros meets the PSG Champions League homecoming celebrations last night - during the Rune vs. Musetti night session 🇫🇷

Badosa vs. Naomi Osaka, the biggest match of R1 at Rolland Garros, and the stadium is... completely empty. Despite the fact that tickets are like gold dust. I simply do not understand

good evening Asturias 🍻

"We paddle past Scots pines. Buzzards circle above our canoe and forests and mountains layer and lap into the distance behind." It's always a pleasure to be back up in the Cairngorms - this time with a paddle in hand on the Spey 👇🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Morning read? Ten years ago, the late land artist Charles Jencks created Crawick Multiverse out of ugly open-cast mine in southern Scotland. Today, it is an exploration of the universe 👇✨ www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...

Thursday weather forecast for Arran: ☀️

Day 4 of the Coastal Way 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿☀️ Gently broken now, but the good views keep on coming - and 2 x pod of dolphin and this lovely otter dropped by to keep us going (a flight of Lagg whisky helped too)!

An all time pitch last night in Arran 🌄🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

A break from our usual Arran content to bring you my latest for @theguardian.com - a feature on Crawick Multiverse, a land art installation in Dumfries and Galloway, built on what was once an open-face coal mine. It turns 10 this year! #visitscotland www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...

Arran Monday weather report ☀️☀️☀️

Wildlife spotted around #Arran today 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿: - 3 x dolphin - 1 x otter (my first in the wild!😍) - 10 x seal - 2 x stonechat - one million beloved oyster catchers

Arran weather report ☀️☀️☀️

Day 1 on the Arran Coastal Way! The 65-mile loop around the island of #Arran. I am delighted to say I am sunburned ☀️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

seeing this forecast and packing all the rain gear anyway is what it means to be a Scottish hiker

Mixed reports from friends in Portugal: - "we thought WW3 was happening" - "the cafe said there was a cyber war and all of Europe was down. We had no way to check" - "work was impossible and the beer was getting warm so we just hung out and talked to our neighbours"

walking the Arran Coastal Way next week and the forecast is currently perfectly sunny for the entire duration - a surefire sign that it's going to rain every day when we're there

i think this is my favourite quote in an article ever

our foster rabbits have packed up their belongings, said goodbye to the house buns and moved on to their forever home 🥲

Spurs fans in mein zweites Zuhause of #Frankfurt today - eat Grüne Soße (green sauce), try Handkäs mit Musik (if you like... sour cheese) and shun the beer - order a Bembel of ebbelwoi instead. A traditional Hessisch cider with a whole lot of history: www.theguardian.com/travel/artic...

We're delighted to see our Much Better Adventures Magazine nominated in the 'Travel Magazine of the Year' category at the upcoming 2025 TravMedia Awards - alongside some heavyweight competition. Congrats to all those nominated 🏔️🌎 📖👉 muchbetteradventures.com/magazine/

Do it Rory. Take the generational trauma of the 2011 Masters and cast it back into the chasm from whence it came

Scotland's highest village! ☀️☀️☀️

Don't be blind to your impact. It's super dry conditions out there. Extensive wildfires have been raging in Galloway, Arran, and Assynt/Coigach, whilst muirburn continues in the Cairngorms. Learn how to respect nature and communities better: www.walkhighlands.co.uk/news/lets-ke... Please no fires!

Jumping on BBC Radio Scotland at 11.45am to talk family attractions for the Easter Holiday if it starts raining - which albeit may be redundant, given that Scotland is now a tropical nation

I was over at the wonderful Crawick Multiverse at the weekend - a cosmos-themed land art installation built on the site of an old open-cast mine - in sunny Dumfries and Galloway. Article coming soon... ✏️✨

Four from a sunny day on the Southern Upland Way 🌞

Up early on the Southern Upland Way ❄️☀️

Welcome to tropical Scotland ☀️☀️☀️

Up Goat Fell at the weekend - sunshine over Arran ⛰️

We speak to Uta Ibrahimi, on the brink of becoming the first person from the Balkans to climb all 14 eight-thousanders... 🇽🇰🇦🇱 ✏️: @stukenny.bsky.social www.muchbetteradventures.com/magazine/cli...

Today, the ETA application process opened to citizens of more than 30 European countries. It will be mandatory for visitors from most EU states to have an ETA from 2 April 2025: 👉 ETA costs £10 👉 lasts 2 years 👉 already in place for US & Canada www.muchbetteradventures.com/magazine/uk-...