http://www.extramilescotland.co.uk/rssblog.asp The EXTRAMILESCOTLAND Blog More Scottish stuff on scotlandinaweek blog page by Gilbert Summers I’ve just read that 600 water voles have been released into the Trossachs 25 years after they died out there. Katy Freeman, http://www.extramilescotland.co.uk/blog.asp?blogid=117 http://www.extramilescotland.co.uk/blog.asp?blogid=117 *adgoeshere* I see that centuries of tradition, apparently, are about to end with the implementation of an EU ban on sealskin products. Scotland is, apparently, shocked to the core and the papers are http://www.extramilescotland.co.uk/blog.asp?blogid=116 http://www.extramilescotland.co.uk/blog.asp?blogid=116 *adgoeshere* ‘Loganair – its Scotlands airline’ was painted on the silver flank of the plane that was going to take me to Islay. Though it was some time ago, I distinctly remember th http://www.extramilescotland.co.uk/blog.asp?blogid=115 http://www.extramilescotland.co.uk/blog.asp?blogid=115 This blog is now on the climb Ladhar Bheinn page on scotlandinaweek.com. http://www.extramilescotland.co.uk/blog.asp?blogid=114 http://www.extramilescotland.co.uk/blog.asp?blogid=114 This blog entry is now on www.scotlandinaweek.com http://www.extramilescotland.co.uk/blog.asp?blogid=113 http://www.extramilescotland.co.uk/blog.asp?blogid=113 *adgoeshere* Let us celebrate Stan Drew. He was of course the inventor of golf and many people take a pilgrimage to the museum in Fife that commemorates him: ‘Stan Drew’s Home of Golf&rsqu http://www.extramilescotland.co.uk/blog.asp?blogid=112 http://www.extramilescotland.co.uk/blog.asp?blogid=112 Ben Ledi view north, acrylic 40 x 50cm is for sale. Contact using feedback email for further info.   *adgoeshere* Off to Ben Ledi in the Trossachs, beyond Callander, in deepest Janu http://www.extramilescotland.co.uk/blog.asp?blogid=110 http://www.extramilescotland.co.uk/blog.asp?blogid=110 *adgoeshere* To Aberfeldy on a winter Saturday with snow in the air. We’re walking in the footsteps of our famous poet Robert Burns, who was here just over 221 years ago, on one of his Highland http://www.extramilescotland.co.uk/blog.asp?blogid=109 http://www.extramilescotland.co.uk/blog.asp?blogid=109 The Moray coastline features from time to time in these meanderings. Covesea lighthouse by Lossiemouth turns up in the background. If you didn’t know it, you’d imagine it as a place wher http://www.extramilescotland.co.uk/blog.asp?blogid=107 http://www.extramilescotland.co.uk/blog.asp?blogid=107 *adgoeshere* There’s Dunnet Head, most northerly; Ardnamurchan Point, most westerly; and, Peterhead, most easterly point on the Scottish mainland. Then there’s the Mull of Galloway – http://www.extramilescotland.co.uk/blog.asp?blogid=106 http://www.extramilescotland.co.uk/blog.asp?blogid=106 This blog entry is now on www.scotlandinaweek.com http://www.extramilescotland.co.uk/blog.asp?blogid=105 http://www.extramilescotland.co.uk/blog.asp?blogid=105 So Bob Dylan appreciates Robert Burns. Imagine: one of the 20th century’s most influential song writers in his genre (however you define it) has chosen an 18th-century Scottish poet as his inspi http://www.extramilescotland.co.uk/blog.asp?blogid=104 http://www.extramilescotland.co.uk/blog.asp?blogid=104