The Hazel Tree

by Jo Woolf

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Latest blog posts on The Hazel Tree

  • Before the rain
  • St Brendan’s Seat
  • Blackthorn: the darkest wood
  • Fincharn Castle on Loch Awe
  • Looking for a fairy portal

Latest blog posts for RSGS

Alexander Kellas - 'the most modest man that ever travelled the Himalayas'
Jane Digby el-Mezrab: from ballroom conquests to bedouin camps
Sir Everard im Thurn and an expedition to 'The Lost World'
Straight up the Prow: Roraima by the hardest route
  • Churches, abbeys and chapels,  History

    Dunfermline Abbey (part 2): pride of kings

    November 18, 2015 /

    The second in my two-part series about the abbey and royal palace of Dunfermline

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    Dryburgh Abbey

    September 11, 2015

    St Andrews: the glorious Cathedral

    March 20, 2014

    The Govan Stones

    April 29, 2015
  • History,  Scottish castles

    The value of Stirling

    December 8, 2013 /

    Forbidding and silent, Stirling Castle stands on a natural clifftop overlooking the River Forth. Battles have raged below its ramparts, and murders have taken place within its walls. Let's go inside and have a look!

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    Diarmuid and Grainne: a boar hunt and a tragic love story in Glen Lonan

    November 22, 2019

    Clach na Carraig or Diarmid’s Pillar

    March 2, 2012

    Seacliff beach and the UK’s smallest harbour

    October 21, 2014

"To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature."

Thomas Hardy, 'Under the Greenwood Tree'
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