scotland – Page 6 – John D Burns

Baby Eels in a Highland stream

June 15, 2017June 16, 2017John D Burns 1

Really delighted to have captured this amazing sight on video. Baby eels in a Highland stream. Here’s a great blog about eel fishing [...]

May 31, 2017John D Burns 4

I have been walking for a long, long time. The past life I have has faded into oblivion. I have become a simple [...]

April 10, 2017April 11, 2017John D Burns 1

Here’s my latest trip along the Great Glen Way from Drumnadrochit to Inverness beside Loch Ness. I jumped on the bus and waved [...]

April 4, 2017April 11, 2017John D Burns 1

Join me on this audio blog as I walk into the heart of the Cairngorms and spend the night in Faindouran Bothy. [...]

After six miles slogging up a mountain track, heading for a bothy, I start to hate my pack. It’s heavy, cumbersome, and expects [...]

November 6, 2016John D Burns 5

I don’t do it for the glamour, really I don’t. I get no thrill from signing autographs and I’m not the sort of [...]

October 18, 2016John D Burns 1

As soon as I said it, I felt the atmosphere change. It had been warm and cosy in the little Bothy, and the [...]

May 13, 2016John D Burns 3

I am following a small path, and reach a point where the glen steepens and narrows. Soon the glen is reduced to steep [...]

April 15, 2016John D Burns 3

‘Where the hell is it?’ I probe the darkness with the fading beam of my head torch searching for the bothy. In the dwindling [...]

April 11, 2016John D Burns 7

It’s dark and raining heavily now. The bothy fire smokes for a few minutes, coughs, splutters and then dies. Charlie, my walking companion [...]