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

    Windows: Edinburgh Castle

    January 27, 2017 /

    It’s about time I started another photography theme, and the next one I’ve chosen is ‘Windows’. This one is in the Royal Apartments at Edinburgh Castle, in the tiny room where, on 19th June 1566, Mary Queen of Scots gave birth to her son, the future James VI and I. More about Edinburgh Castle at edinburghcastle.gov.uk or you can read about St Margaret’s Chapel on The Hazel Tree Image © Jo Woolf

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    Gateway into 2015

    January 2, 2015

    Windows: Culross Palace

    July 31, 2017

    Frost in Cwm Cynfal

    February 15, 2013
  • History

    Culross Palace: glowing with splendour

    June 14, 2016 /

    Its walls the colour of saffron, Culross Palace beckons you into a 17th-century world of cobbled streets and quaint townhouses

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    Tirefuir broch on the Isle of Lismore

    October 10, 2019

    Tantallon Castle: symbol of strength

    January 27, 2015

    St Andrew’s Auld Kirk, North Berwick

    December 9, 2014
  • History,  Scottish castles

    The Palace of Holyroodhouse

    January 20, 2016 /

    At one end of Edinburgh's Royal Mile is this sumptuous palace, with a jaw-dropping list of royal occupants and a rather blood-stained history...

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    Kilmory Knap Chapel – part two

    June 25, 2013

    Killiecrankie: haunted by memories

    January 13, 2014

    St Mary’s Church, Grandtully

    December 15, 2015
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"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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