Walkabout Scotland

25/02/2024

Finn’s commentary about the Calcutta Cup Scotland v England yesterday

22/08/2022

August Newsletter -

A cloudy Edinburgh day towards the end of the Festival: to avoid the usual entertainers, drama students, show promoters and the expanding wave of litter, our thoughts are already back in the hills...

30/12/2021

Last walk of the year - quick afternoon wander around the Pentlands with Phil. Always hard to believe it’s less than 10 miles from Edinburgh City Centre.

30/12/2021

Last walk of the year in the Pentlands - only 15km from Princes Street

04/11/2021

West Highland Way in beautiful autumn colors 🤎🍂
We still have some spots left for our guided West Highland Way Adventure the 14th of November! 🍁
Book your spot at: www.walkaboutscotland.com

31/10/2021

West Highland Way, Day 7.
The last day starts with rain and a fairly steep 300 metre climb up out of Kinlochleven.
Into the valley I go, rolling along nicely towards Ben Nevis which rises majestic in the mist.
It’s been like this all along the way. Contrasts. Rain and clouds one minute, sun and blue skies the next.
The bridge between them is the incredible rainbows that light up the sky in unexpected places.
What a way to finish! 👣

29/10/2021

West Highland Way, Day 5 & 6.
Like I said, Scotland is a land of contrasts.
Day 5, blue skies all the way and then this incredible encounter with the magnificent stag you see below.
Day 6, rain, cloud and moody skies. It just keeps on changing and transforming. Never mind four seasons in one day, this is four seasons in one hour. Mind blowing! 🦌🍂

27/10/2021

West Highland Way, Day 3 & 4.
After two beautiful and sunny days the weather has turned. In spite of the challenge I’m still finding more and more beauty in Scotland. It just keeps getting better 🍂

25/10/2021

A quick walk up the Steall Falls in honour of Andy Davidson

25/10/2021

West Highland Way, Days 1 & 2.
Scotland in October is amazing! It’s been sun, rain and everything in between. Furthermore, you don’t encounter many people on the Way now, so it’s quiet and peaceful. The color palette of the country has shifted yet again and the autumn colors just take your breath away 🍁🐾

16/10/2021

It has been a great shock to us all at Walkabout to find out this week that Andy Davidson has taken his own life. He ran many tours for us from 2012-2015, mainly the Big Highland Tour, Skye and Highland Railways - mostly when we had lots of French guests. We also sometimes mixed our Ben Nevis Weekend guests with his own local clients.

Afterwards, he preferred to work more on his own project Up and Down Guided Walks and we were happy to see it become successful. He was the first of our guides who really pressed to help clean up the summit of Ben Nevis, always coming down with a bin liner full of other peoples cast offs, a practice which we all try to continue.

Only a few weeks ago, he answered our call to help out with guiding the Highland Railways on 26th September - meeting out clients over at Aviemore to save a day trip to the city. He had great, weather affected week with out group blog with his dog Jura. I then drove him back to his car at Aviemore along the "Laggan Road" avoiding the deer and badgers whilst catching up - Covid had pretty much stopped Up and Down but things were starting to look up again. He had been able to get work at Fort William Backpackers hostel, the guests were starting to come back for the walks, his house was starting to be booked up and he was talking about starting a country ranger course in the winter.

We will miss his amazing knowledge of the hills, deep love of Scotland and his Doric accent! I'm sure plenty of our guests over the years will have many great stories of wild days out in the hills with Andy.

His family can be contacted through his website:
https://www.up-and-doon-guidedwalks.co.uk

Andy's instagram

If you would like to make a donation to Support in Mind Scotland I am sure this would mean a lot to Andy given they operate in the Lochaber area.
https://www.supportinmindscotland.org.uk

11/10/2021

These are our tents, pitched on a regular wild camping spot near Inverorarn Hotel on the West HIghland Way. The green one (Vango Soul 200) was stolen along with 2 sleeping bags, thermorest air mat, cooking stove and pots at some point between 10am and 3pm, Sunday 10th October. Police have been made aware. If you saw anything suspicious please call 0131 261 6470.

11/09/2021

Välkommen! Anna Lindström from Helsingborg, Sweden is working with us until December as part of the new post-Brexit ERASMUS placement scheme.

14/06/2021

If Heineken did pub beer gardens… hopefully someday soon

16/05/2021

First Walkabout trip of 2021! This week's West Highland Way Adventure was a blast.

28/04/2021

This last weekend, Jon and Stu were doing the Rescue Emergency Care course at Leek in the Staffordshire Moorlands with the REC Guru himself, Allan Shaw of Buxton & Leek College