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Scottish travel writer 🌲 he/him Words: The Guardian, BBC, Nat Geo & more. Editor of the @MuchBetterAdven Mag.

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You're welcome @VisitScotland
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Why is this magazine called 'love it!'
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If you want some Scottish history but also want some chain Italian food, know that the exact spot where the 1707 Act of Union between Scotland and England was signed is now the lady's toilets at Bella Italia on the corner of North Bridge/Royal Mile
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A fine day in Glasgow 🌍 #FridaysForFuture #ClimateStrike
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accidental renaissance painting
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Start of the #Scotland fan march to the RheinEnergieStadion in Köln 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #Euro2024 #K öln #Cologne
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Just applied for a postal vote as I'll be off in Germany on July 4! It only took 5 minutes. You'll just need: • your national insurance number • pen & blank paper for a signature (and camera phone to upload a pic)
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During the winter solstice on Orkney, the last rays of the setting sun shine through the entrance of Maeshowe - a 5000 year old chambered tomb - to light up the back rock, marking the passing of time, carrying away the souls of the dead and showing the continuance of life...
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Thanks to Gorgie's finest for tolerating me and other excited children at 5am at the airport 🇱🇻 @JamTarts
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All aboard the last manually operated turntable ferry in the world - from Glenelg to Skye (ft. a *very* good dog 🐶) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @FerrytoSkye @VisitScotland #VisitScotland
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just brutal that Scotland - so proud of a national image sculpted by writers - doesn't prioritise arts funding. We have a national day for a poet, largest monument in the world to a writer, Nan Shepherd on the £5 note, but are making it *so* difficult for new work to be created
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A perfect rainbow over the Ring of Brodgar! You beauty, Orkney 🌈 @VisitScotland #visitscotland
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I BLOODY LOVE SCOTLAND 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #VisitScotland @VisitScotland #Torridon
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Aimlessly wondering about Edinburgh with a fry up, trying to bring Craig Gordon breakfast in bed
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Scottish tories: there is no case for independence, concentrate on the cost of living English tories: our evil £500,000 deportation plane has been thwarted by the European Court of Human Rights
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Steve Clarke team talk tomorrow
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Sometimes what’s for ye does actual go by ye, agonisingly close by you & you fucked it & you have to think about it with painful regret for the rest of your shit little life 💪💪 just something to think about mate x
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Scotland is unbeatable! An *absolutely* unbelievable few days out of signal & on the 44-mile Affric-Kintail Way 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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After 2 nights camping and 3 days trekking, we made it to Askival - high point of the Isle of Rum! 🏞️
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Dropped by the Museum of Art in Columbus where there's an amazing exhibition of Richie Pope's art, including work commissioned from The New York Times to imagine what tourism would look like in Wakanda
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You, there!! ⚽️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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This is very clearly a Lawrence Shankland game. Anyone who's seen Heart of Midlothian play a game this season knows that
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7 years
Just rediscovered the @IrvineWelsh 's writing as motivational quotes piece and am now once again ready for adventure:
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me: *turns corner* Edinburgh: BLACK SHEEP COFFEE, COMING SOON
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6 months
don't let them tell you travel journalism doesn't pay
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2 years
source for this... i went on an (excellent) tour of my hometown the other day and it was on the tour. Guide said they had to dive out a riot and into that cellar, then it was later signed elsewhere (at Moray House?). Feel free to also spread this rumour over your cacio e pepe
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9 years
You're hot then you're cold, you're yes then you're no, you're... an ice sauna❄🎶 #visitfinland @OurFinland @Mpora
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The most disruptive city festival in the world is fine. The Fast & The Furious shutting down half the city is fine. But school kids protesting the climate crisis? Yup, threaten them with all arrest. @Edinburgh_CC you are an absolute joke.
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Taken a (brief) break from tent life to stay in what must be one of Scotland's most beautiful buildings 🌊😍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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3 years
concerning when Ant & Dec are harsher critics of the government than the actual opposition
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4 years
this looked like i've photoshopped myself into BBC News 😂
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3 years
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2 years
Edinburgh is a tip right now - a good reminder of a) the importance of workers, and why they deserved to be paid fairly and b) the incredible amount of waste tied to the Edinburgh festival (as well as to everyday life)
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3 years
by the way
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is it a tap?
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The King of 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @Andy_Murray confirms Olympics is his last tourny! Andy met us fresh-faced student journos 10yrs (!) ago when he got an honorary degree at @StirUni , with a Wimbledon title and Olympic gold in the bag, and one of each still to come. @Graham_Swann @therealsalmoan
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if they're starting this in Edinburgh during Fringe, they shouldn't be allowed to close the roads. I want Wout van Aert fending off leaflets for a drag adaption of Braveheart as he climbs the Mile. Pogačar with a flyer for a one-man musical called 'Bins' stuck in his spokes
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Canna on a day like today... ☀️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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3 years
Scotland eh? This was up the iconic Stac Pollaidh today. Not news to anyone, but this place is special! 🏞️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @VisitScotland #onlyinscotland
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Bought our @Jamtarts season tickets on lunch break. Popped into Tynie to check them out in the summer sun!
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At Tynecastle, where a guy who had three bottles of water confiscated persuaded the security guy to let him decant the contents of those bottles into 11 seperate coke cups
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I mean his first name is literally pronounced "No-vac"
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Coronavirus: Novak Djokovic reveals he's an anti-vaxxer and it may stop his return to tennis
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I'm in Patagonia, with Rewilding Argentina 🇦🇷! They're building national parks to kick-start circular, nature-based economies and protect pumas, guanacos and lesser rhea (a sort of mini ostrich with an unfair name - they're great). We saw a puma today!
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big day for my Jannik Sinner to win #AusOpen bet and playlist
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Jannik Sinner has beaten Novak Djokovic 6-1 6-2 6-7 6-3. On the Rod Laver Arena. In the semi-finals of the #AusOpen . Without facing a single break point.
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If you liked this: you'll probably maybe love the time I tested out a £40 Lidl kayak on union canal
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4 years
It's time for your coo of the day ❄️
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1 year
can't see bunting if you're in a cloud
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there's norway I'm forgetting this one 🛶⛺ @visitnorway Beauty of a trip with @muchbetterAdven 🇳🇴
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3 years
Last minute winner is the new glorious failure
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So... I'm now Editor of the @MuchBetterAdven Mag 🌎! We've got big plans for the mag, keeping our focus on sustainable travel and the world's wild places. That starts with a new (remote) hire! Fancy joining me? Close: 19 Nov | Salary: £27k pro-rata
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Get guest refs in football. Like WWE. Imagine. Rudi Skacel announced as guest ref for an Edinburgh derby in a backstage clip in Sportscene.
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Since the average age which parents have their first child is apparently 28.6 yrs old (!), the great great great granddaughter in the song 'Year 3000' would be approx 852 yrs old when Busted say she is "pretty fine" which speaks well of the healthcare system
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Presumably #Kerrang have asked Corbyn about the overarching manifesto, as well as All The Small Things.
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Woah! Super stoked to be up for the Young Writer of the Year (!) & Sustainability Travel Feature of the Year (!) awards at the Travel Media Awards 2022! I'm also ed of @muchbetterAdven mag, which is nominated for online Consumer Publication of the Year🤯 @travelmediawrds
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3 years
sticker of the day:
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4 years
big takes in my mentions, the worst of which seems that be that it's unpatriotic to joke about the rain in Scotland. Will make sure next video is singing Caledonia, wearing a kilt, pouring whisky on my head in the sun
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You're welcome @VisitScotland
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Just the 41 minutes of cannon fire today then
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Woke up in a sleeping bag next to Loch Ken and (one flat tyre later) me & my mountain shirt are on the train to London for the @travelmediawrds ! I'm up for Young Writer of the Year, best Sustainability Feature + online publication, with @muchbetterAdven 🙏🌍🌲
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@joannaccherry This tweet is awful. It's so sad for an MP to tweet this. These are good, kind people, literally just asking for human rights.
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that's the way they do it in the Western Isles 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @SkyeLiveFest @peatanddiesel
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I didn't win any travel media awards tonight, but I did have a shower at a service station in Dumfries this morning and then get free champagne at The Dorchester the same day - which is an unusual 24hrs to say the least
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Issy knitted me this jumper for my birthday today! Look how great it is! 🥰🎂
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absolutely, categorically fuck this
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Just 15 people own 5,300 properties in Edinburgh. This is astounding, and goes some way to explaining the housing crisis that the city finds itself in
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The red shutters really make The Old Tolbooth Kirk the most evil building in Edinburgh. Looks like the final level of a video game
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If the fancy blue lights were for the start of the International Festival then the weather tonight is for the Free Fringe
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What a moment. What an iconic photo. What a collective action by Pollokshields! What a precedent set! Glasgow! What a city!
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Happy 100th birthday @OurFinland ! Exploring the Arctic backcountry for @Mpora in -25 degrees Celsius is still one of my favourite trips: #Finland100
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...in which I take the 7am bus from Braehead to Glencoe, ski in glorious sun/sideways hail beside the mighty Buachaille, then spend a not insignificant part of my word count describing what a munchie box is: @VisitScotland @GlencoeMountain @Ellis_Brigham
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It's my birthday! And I was meant to be covering a story in the French Alps this weekend, but my flight got cancelled, so I'm at the National Whisky Festival instead and I've had like 30 whiskies already and I'm going to see Wilf at the traverse later so ALL IS VERY GOOD
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I just want @mescal_paul to play me in the film remake of this 22-second video, with a chain on top of the rain jacket
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You're welcome @VisitScotland
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As George Mackay Brown wrote - "The essence of Orkney's magic is silence, loneliness, and the deep marvellous rhythms of sea and land, darkness and light."
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Stay dry & listen to Scottish poetry 👇
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September on the West Highland Way 🥾🌈 @official_whw
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Made my TV debut as a travel judge on the new BBC Scotland show 'Scotland's Greatest Escape' last night. What a pleasure to contribute to a show highlighting Scotland and Scottish hospitality in such an excellent light! I'll be featuring primarily later in the series! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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A government statement on the 'poem'
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I HAVE TICKETS TO SEE GERMANY PLAY SCOTLAND IN THE OPENING MATCH OF EURO 2024 😭😍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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hey Edinburgh
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Barcelona is requiring landlords to rent vacant units to make more housing available, w/the threat that otherwise the city will acquire them an 1/2 mkt value & rent them out as social housing. Time for cities to get more ambitious in our housing policy.
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I travelled to Armeniș, in the southern Carpathians, to hike, track & visit @WWF_Romania & @RewildingEurope 's bison re-introduction project. My piece is now live on the positive impacts of the bison on biodiversity & local community: @WWF @muchbetterAdven
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affordable, functioning public transport is so, so, so important
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A study has shown that Germany's €9 ticket massively increased low income households' social participation, thereby boasting their overall quality of life and alleviating feelings of loneliness
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my first Brocken spectre/rainbow ghost man
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Mark Cavendish should absolutely ride the rest of this #TDF2024 early 1900's style. Stop at every village for a bottle of wine. Have a few cigarettes on the downhills. Jump on a bus up the climbs when nobody's watching
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When you're looking for a job in your preferred industry in Scotland. Truly iconic look from @ShadyLawrence 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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Ordered a book after a couple cans the other day. Just checked to see why it hadn't arrived. Might've been a bit vague with the address...
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This magazine is fantastic. The words are so good. Page 18 is just five retro Mexican kits accompanied by surreal flash fiction involving each, and it's weird and it's wonderful and I love that someone is publishing stuff like this. Words are great. Claps for @MundialMag 👏👏👏
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what's even the point
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Four from an unforgettable day in Köln. #Euro2024 #Cologne #K öln
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Celebrating 10 years of this jumper
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3 years
Behold: the new bike storage system 🚲
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4 years
I've got an article in The @Guardian today (!) about Nan Shepherd's 'The Living Mountain' and rediscovering local nature spots. It's accompanied by a picture of me with a moustache holding a tree branch, because apparently I am incapable of doing anything serious in life.
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5 years
As you can see I've had a very productive adventure week.
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4 years
It's a bonnie day in the capital ☀️🏰
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4 years
Shoutout to @laurenlaverne for alerting me to the fact that this music video both exists, and crucially, has Danny Glover and Susan Sarandon in it. Happy crying is as good a way to start a Monday morning as any other I suppose:
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Very easy to fall in love with Glen Affric Youth Hostel - the Highland's most remote, beautiful and welcoming youth hostel. Only accessible by a (minimum) 3/4-hour hike & surrounded by Munros. The perfect base for hiking! 🏔️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @hostellingscot
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A perfect birthday on Orkney 🌄
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classic BBC coverage for Belgium vs. Finland
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I will be on BBC Scotland at 17.57 talking about walking in the rain
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German-Eritrean restaurant where they serve Guinness Export in a coconut
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Have to respect @maryannehobbs for just blasting pulsating techno into homes and workplaces around the world at 11am
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