The Hazel Tree

by Jo Woolf

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Latest blog posts on The Hazel Tree

  • Torinturk and the fort of the black dog
  • Before the rain
  • St Brendan’s Seat
  • Blackthorn: the darkest wood
  • Fincharn Castle on Loch Awe

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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    A forgotten summer

    October 3, 2014

    Trees 4: monochrome

    December 13, 2015

    Windows: Culross Palace

    July 31, 2017
  • 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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    Athelstaneford – a dovecot, an elusive battle, and the legend of Scotland’s flag

    August 14, 2014

    Falkland Palace: power and glory

    June 5, 2014

    Scotland’s haunted castles: would you be spooked?

    October 10, 2013
  • 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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    Dunkeld Cathedral: Scotland’s sacred heart

    January 10, 2014

    An old story of Craignish

    February 4, 2020

    The road to Loch Avich

    October 6, 2018

"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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