The Hazel Tree

by Jo Woolf

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Latest blog posts on The Hazel Tree

  • Deirdre and the Sons of Uisneach
  • Torinturk and the fort of the black dog
  • Before the rain
  • St Brendan’s Seat
  • Blackthorn: the darkest wood

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
  • Photography

    Gateway into 2015

    January 2, 2015 /

    A lovely old gateway near Dunvegan Castle on the Isle of Skye...

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    Random rocks: beach sculpture

    March 24, 2015

    Windows: Dunfermline Abbey

    March 9, 2017

    Frost in Cwm Cynfal

    February 15, 2013
  • History

    The Fairy Flag of Dunvegan

    August 7, 2013 /

    It's 1580, you're in an advancing army and you see the MacLeods on the other side start to unfurl their Fairy Flag. What do you do? You run!

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    Kilmory Knap Chapel – part two

    June 25, 2013

    Dunaverty and St Columba’s Footprints

    November 29, 2020

    Duart Castle, Isle of Mull

    September 1, 2011
  • History,  Scottish castles

    Dunvegan Castle – still holding fast

    August 6, 2013 /

    This fortress on Skye's north-west coast has stood guard over MacLeod lands for nearly 750 years; and it contains some spellbinding treasures!

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    St Giles’ Cathedral, Edinburgh

    February 7, 2014

    Standing stone near Loch Ederline

    July 27, 2017

    Old Castle Lachlan: loyalty and loss

    October 23, 2016

    "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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