Tag Archives: beach

Horse riding on a Berwickshire beach (Rousse)

AW and I rode from Edinburgh to the Berwickshire coast. We risked our lives – and those of our horses – travelling along the busy A1. At the end of our journey, AW struggled to persuade her mount to clamber … Continue reading

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Curious rucksack contents (Rousse)

I grabbed my rucksack and followed my Canadian colleague BD out the door. If this was the last time that we were together, I wanted to be with him as long as I could. We walked across the big public … Continue reading

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Riding a water envelope is more fun than house clearing and lecturing (Rousse)

When we were recalled to my parents’ house to finish the clearing job, we admired the garden in the beautiful spring sunshine. Our progress was slow, especially because all the utilities had been disconnected. Even the simplest of tasks, such … Continue reading

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Holy Island’s best new beach (Rousse)

Holy Island was never a quiet holiday destination, but now the hordes had something new to enjoy. The recent storms had transformed the muddy harbour bay into a wide expanse of soft golden sand. It was perfect for sunbathing, as … Continue reading

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A bedroom farce (Rousse)

It was like the plot of a farce. My new friend and I bonded on a tropical beach while watching the enormous sun double dip into the sea beneath the far horizon. Then we went back to her room. She … Continue reading

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Sea harvest for the homeless (Rousse)

Evicted from our house, we continued to live nearby in our car. There were two other ‘households’ resident in the seaside car park: a family of Eastern Europeans in a van, and two African women in a peeling-paint blue wooden … Continue reading

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Laundry lunacy (Rousse)

As I hung out the washing on a large expanse of beach, I considered myself a genius. The onshore wind would soon dry everything. Why had nobody else ever thought of using the sands as a vast drying green? Of … Continue reading

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New miniature railway attraction in formal French garden at Uig Sands (Rousse)

The proprietor of the bed and breakfast was just as surprised as we were to find a formal French garden, complete with a miniature railway, laid out between his guest house and the vast beach of Uig Sands.

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Summer weather in the Outer Hebrides (Rousse)

NP had persuaded her friends to accompany us on a trip to the Outer Hebrides. This was on the basis of my large archive of photographs of the deserted white sandy beaches that fringed the sea of Caribbean blue, sparkling … Continue reading

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A mountain ban (Rousse)

On holiday in the far north of Scotland, I joined a walking group. Each day the leader took us a different route across the moorland, up the mountains, and along the beaches. It was wonderful. One morning we climbed a … Continue reading

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