Blog

A selection of personal, mostly travel and culture related writing.

  • My 2017 Travel Goals

    The past twelve months have been a bit of a wild ride. Just over a year ago I lost the job that I had spent four years working towards. In February I was in hospital terrified that I might never be able to move the right hand side of my body again. And not long…

  • Fife and the Fife Coastal Tourist Route

    Passing through here you could, at times, be forgiven for thinking that you were somewhere completely different. Many of the small fishing towns boast the same multi-coloured, one storey houses found on Scotland’s western isles – think Portree on Skye or Tobermory on Mull.

  • Fàilte!

    Hello. My name is Tara. I hail from Bonnie Scotland and was born with a terminal case of Stage 3 wanderlust. In my short 22 years, I have been fortunate enough to visit 30 countries, to have lived abroad twice, studied abroad twice and to have seen three dead Communist leaders’ bodies. I have celebrated…