One week of good weather in Scotland is something really unusual. It allowed me to climb week by week in the same area; this time one of the tops had been controversially stripped of its Munro status just to get that back some time later; anyway it just two feet over 3000. As I’ve mentioned the weather was good, but…
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Elijah the Prophet was definitely not a man of the cultural mainstream of his time. His fierce stand against an immoral and corrupt king and his court made him particularly unpopular among the powerful. His denouncement of the king’s ‘yes-men’ – false prophets – was provoking fiery criticism. When he managed to crush them in a spectacular way, the queen…
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Spring has finally arrived in Scotland; it was proven by me wearing short-sleeve shirt and shorts during this walk for the first time this year. The walk is pretty straightforward, however the path leading up the slope of Carn Liath can be easily overlooked. From the summit of Carn Liath it’s pretty simple as the route goes along the ridge. [googlemaps…
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The size of our universe is so massive, it’s just incomprehensible. Many stars we can see in the sky are so distant that they actually don’t exist any more but their light needs millions of years to travel that distance. Even reaching our neighbour, Mars, by a manned expedition remains to this day a futuristic venture, considered as a one-way journey…
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The least pleasant aspect of this walk was a long, long walk from the car park to the real starting point; good company or good music can massively help to pass that pretty boring stretch. The weather was surprisingly better than the forecast, but haze and occasional clouds obscured the views. Almost the entire route goes along farm track and…