Nature has been kind to the hill country of the central Southern Uplands; it holds more than its share of stunning landscapes. Of these,…
Leave a CommentAuthor blog for William A. Young: Exploring the past, present and future of the Celtic cultures
Category: Scotland
The valley of Talla is today one of the wildest corners of the Southern Uplands. It’s a steep-edged place, rockier by far than most of…
Leave a Comment
I’ll be sharing a series of traditional stories through this site on a regular basis over the coming months, starting today. The first is a…
Leave a Comment
“Merlin of the Forest” is a Youtube video on the Brythonic-Celtic origins of the Merlin legends, by one Kris Hughes. Kris is an independent…
Leave a Comment
“Who owns this landscape? Has owning anything to do with love? For it and I have a love-affair, so nearly human we even have quarrels.…
Leave a Comment
This route is the result of a great many years spent hiking through South Scotland, and a great many hours poring over maps of it.…
6 Comments
This post covers one of the finest trekking routes through the Southern Uplands of Scotland – and one of my personal favourites. It combines a…
4 Comments
The Southern Uplands of Scotland are not a place the mind immediately associates with such things as craggy pinnacles of rock, multi-coloured screes, and…
3 Comments
It started off with an email. I was invited down to Traquair for a coffee by one Robin Crichton – variously a filmmaker, author, conference…
Leave a Comment
An early start; a bus from Edinburgh to the old, genteel town of Peebles. Out into the bright morning air. Sunlight and Saturday morning shopping;…
1 Comment