http://www.extramilescotland.co.uk/rssblog.asp The EXTRAMILESCOTLAND Blog More Scottish stuff on scotlandinaweek blog page by Gilbert SummersI’ve just read that 600 water voles have been released into the Trossachs 25 years after they died out there. Katy Freeman, of http://www.extramilescotland.co.uk/blog.asp?blogid=117 http://www.extramilescotland.co.uk/blog.asp?blogid=117 *adgoeshere* I see that centuries of tradition, apparently, are about to end with the implementation of an EU ban on sealskin products. Scotland is, apparently, shocked to the core and the papers are http://www.extramilescotland.co.uk/blog.asp?blogid=116 http://www.extramilescotland.co.uk/blog.asp?blogid=116 *adgoeshere* ‘Loganair – its Scotlands airline’ was painted on the silver flank of the plane that was going to take me to Islay. Though it was some time ago, I distinctly remember th http://www.extramilescotland.co.uk/blog.asp?blogid=115 http://www.extramilescotland.co.uk/blog.asp?blogid=115 What is it with this big western hill? It always seems to attract attention. It’s probably because it has this exciting air of remoteness. Here are a few more pictures that really supplement the http://www.extramilescotland.co.uk/blog.asp?blogid=114 http://www.extramilescotland.co.uk/blog.asp?blogid=114   Here's a pic of an ordinary country lane in Perthshire. It leads down to the River Earn, ahead and marked by the line of trees at a point called Dalpatrick Ford, near the town of Crieff, in http://www.extramilescotland.co.uk/blog.asp?blogid=113 http://www.extramilescotland.co.uk/blog.asp?blogid=113 *adgoeshere* Let us celebrate Stan Drew. He was of course the inventor of golf and many people take a pilgrimage to the museum in Fife that commemorates him: ‘Stan Drew’s Home of Golf&rsqu http://www.extramilescotland.co.uk/blog.asp?blogid=112 http://www.extramilescotland.co.uk/blog.asp?blogid=112 So you’ll know about bog myrtle then? That wiry plant that grows in wet places in the Highlands? Crush the leaves and you’ll find it has an attractive scent. It is sometimes described as t http://www.extramilescotland.co.uk/blog.asp?blogid=111 http://www.extramilescotland.co.uk/blog.asp?blogid=111 Ben Ledi view north, acrylic 40 x 50cm is for sale. Contact using feedback email for further info.   *adgoeshere* Off to Ben Ledi in the Trossachs, beyond Callander, in deepest Janu http://www.extramilescotland.co.uk/blog.asp?blogid=110 http://www.extramilescotland.co.uk/blog.asp?blogid=110 *adgoeshere* To Aberfeldy on a winter Saturday with snow in the air. We’re walking in the footsteps of our famous poet Robert Burns, who was here just over 221 years ago, on one of his Highland http://www.extramilescotland.co.uk/blog.asp?blogid=109 http://www.extramilescotland.co.uk/blog.asp?blogid=109 The Moray coastline features from time to time in these meanderings. Covesea lighthouse by Lossiemouth turns up in the background. If you didn’t know it, you’d imagine it as a place wher http://www.extramilescotland.co.uk/blog.asp?blogid=107 http://www.extramilescotland.co.uk/blog.asp?blogid=107 *adgoeshere* There’s Dunnet Head, most northerly; Ardnamurchan Point, most westerly; and, Peterhead, most easterly point on the Scottish mainland. Then there’s the Mull of Galloway – http://www.extramilescotland.co.uk/blog.asp?blogid=106 http://www.extramilescotland.co.uk/blog.asp?blogid=106 All right, I know it’s obscure. I also considered ‘Truly, madly, neeply’. Anyway, I feel it’s worth recording that neep growers everywhere will be entirely unsympathetic to the http://www.extramilescotland.co.uk/blog.asp?blogid=105 http://www.extramilescotland.co.uk/blog.asp?blogid=105