Now here is a place to stop and unwind under the April-blue sky. The daffodils sway like buttery flags in the breeze that skims over the snow-capped mountains. Beneath the daffodils, tiny celandine tell their own story, reflecting their brightness from their small, yellow discs. Meanwhile the rabbits squeak playfully in the adjacent fields. I …
As soon as I heard about a new discovery of dinosaur tracks on the Isle of Skye, I felt a surge of excitement. Scientists had unearthed a site where meat-eating sauropods and theropods once roamed. They had left their footprints on the soft lagoon mud 170 million years ago when the island was part of …
It is a perfect spring afternoon on the Isles of Skye. The Cuillin mountains that frame the tiny port of Elgol reign supreme in the polar-like clarity; their snow-tipped ridge a clean wiggly line against the deep blue sky beyond. A gleaming blue and white boat named ‘the Eilean a cheo’ (Gaelic for the ‘Isle …
