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
  • History,  Scottish castles

    Dunstaffnage Castle: defiant to the last

    July 17, 2015 /

    In the 13th century, no one approached Dunstaffnage Castle without a very good reason. It still fills you with a sense of awe...

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    Camas nan Geall: ‘the Bay of the Strangers’

    July 20, 2015

    Doune Castle: seat of power

    July 30, 2014

    Tullibardine Chapel

    September 1, 2016
  • Churches, abbeys and chapels,  History

    Dunstaffnage Chapel – haunted by sadness

    June 26, 2015 /

    Peaceful woodlands enclose this little church on the coast of Argyll; but in December 1462 a wedding here was about to turn into a funeral...

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    Culross Abbey

    July 29, 2016

    St Bride’s: a history worth saving

    June 20, 2018

    St Andrews: the glorious Cathedral

    March 20, 2014
  • Geology

    Coastal relics from the last Ice Age

    April 14, 2014 /

    A natural arch and sea stack left high and dry after the ice retreated... with links to a warrior of Celtic legend

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    Ardnamurchan’s volcano

    April 23, 2015

    Garnet – the warrior stone

    February 22, 2014

    A surprise find on Seacliff beach

    August 13, 2014
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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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