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
  • 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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    Winchester’s Round Table: inspired by a legend

    July 2, 2013

    Carnassarie Castle in Kilmartin Glen

    April 6, 2018

    From Arichonan to Kilmory Oib

    August 20, 2018
  • 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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    Melrose Abbey

    January 9, 2017

    Dryburgh Abbey

    September 11, 2015

    Walking to the Field of the Heads

    July 10, 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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