Follow The Oikofuge: Travel, filter it, and define how you want to receive the news (via Email, RSS, Telegram, WhatsApp etc.) https://follow.it/the-oikofuge-travel Wed, 27 Sep 2023 05:59:38 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/fmTE2RVzeNcgsNOZ8tm-hR-xWH3zZqEA I’ve been meaning to write about Strathglass for a couple of years now, but have never got around to it. This post therefore merges three separate visits to the same location, marked by the little red dot in the middle of my map, above. So you’ll encounter a strange mixture of photographs from spring and … Continue reading Strathglass →]]> Wed, 09 Aug 2023 13:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/fmTE2RVzeNcgsNOZ8tm-hR-xWH3zZqEA https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/fmTE2RVzeNcro0SerMtplCxhxzpi7FpJ I finished my previous post about our Orkney trip with a photograph of the salvaged propeller of HMS Hampshire, which sits in the forecourt of the Scapa Flow Museum on Hoy. The Hampshire wreck actually lies on the seabed some distance from Hoy and Scapa Flow—between Marwick Head and the Brough of Birsay, on the … Continue reading Orkney: Part 2 →]]> Wed, 07 Jun 2023 13:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/fmTE2RVzeNcro0SerMtplCxhxzpi7FpJ https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/fmTE2RVzeNeyUI6L-OsXKwp41t9tiERU The advent of a new scheduled flight between Dundee and the Orkney Islands, off the north coast of Scotland, seemed like too good an opportunity to miss, and the Boon Companion and I booked seats shortly after the flights began in April. The route goes pretty much straight north from Dundee, and we had a … Continue reading Orkney: Part 1 →]]> Wed, 31 May 2023 13:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/fmTE2RVzeNeyUI6L-OsXKwp41t9tiERU https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/fmTE2RVzeNd8QUfVDL4GuO9WSSr4-0sP I am quite clear in my own mind that I’d set my face in the right direction, though I don’t pretend to know why I should be destined to visit Greenland any more than Timbuctoo. Maybe I’m not, and I shall be able to visit Timbuctoo another day, for one journey leads naturally to another. … Continue reading Isobel Wylie Hutchison: Peak Beyond Peak →]]> Wed, 17 May 2023 13:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/fmTE2RVzeNd8QUfVDL4GuO9WSSr4-0sP https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/fmTE2RVzeNcMGGG6Qkp7BuQEmsPXZ5C9 The feeling of the entire group was that, we might be stranded in the middle of nowhere, but it certainly wasn’t the end of the world, after all, most of us had endured worse hardships during the war and overcome. So, we made up our minds to make the most of our un-scheduled break from … Continue reading Irene & Dorothy Topping: Legacy →]]> Wed, 12 Apr 2023 13:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/fmTE2RVzeNcMGGG6Qkp7BuQEmsPXZ5C9 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/fmTE2RVzeNc_FuYY21h8EOifqJurszLU The Boon Companion and I finally got around to a bit of international travel recently. Airports and aeroplanes proved to be just as ghastly as we remembered them, but it was nice to get away from a very damp Scotland for a blink of October sun in the south of France. The Côte d’Azur has … Continue reading Côte d’Azur (2022) →]]> Wed, 09 Nov 2022 14:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/fmTE2RVzeNc_FuYY21h8EOifqJurszLU https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/fmTE2RVzeNesZxNPMtC2hwC0qH-r7xlT Air travel still being something of a tedious lottery in the UK at present, the Boon Companion and I have not entered an airport since our return from Morocco during the very early days of Covid. We’ve contented ourselves by knocking around Scotland, and I haven’t posted much about those travels, since they’ve either been … Continue reading Durness →]]> Wed, 28 Sep 2022 13:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/fmTE2RVzeNesZxNPMtC2hwC0qH-r7xlT https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/fmTE2RVzeNcdGStnl2tJzovmyuk5fxzE With Covid lockdown lifted (at least for now) but international travel still looking like a Very Bad Idea for the rest of the year, the Boon Companion and I are back to travelling around Scotland. Our most recent trip was to Kylerhea, at the eastern end of the Isle of Skye. It’s not a particularly … Continue reading Kylerhea, Skye →]]> Wed, 16 Jun 2021 13:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/fmTE2RVzeNcdGStnl2tJzovmyuk5fxzE https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/fmTE2RVzeNfdv559MaSjkWw5Ur-z5Bww With foreign travel currently falling into the “More Trouble Than It’s Worth” category, The Boon Companion and I have been using the brief periods between travel bans to enjoy what are nowadays called staycations, but when we were growing up were called “proper holidays”—that is, leaving home and staying in another part of the country … Continue reading Ullapool →]]> Wed, 04 Nov 2020 14:00:37 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/fmTE2RVzeNfdv559MaSjkWw5Ur-z5Bww https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/fmTE2RVzeNfdv559MaSjkReIF_fEM9tn Only a few years back, a voyage to Morocco necessitated long preparation: servants, guides, animals for riding, camping materials, much time, and therefore great fatigue and heavy expenses. Though the greatest care was taken, comfort, while moving or at rest, was non-existent, and travellers were sometimes exposed to very disagreeable adventures. Things have changed. Prosper … Continue reading Morocco →]]> Wed, 04 Mar 2020 14:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/fmTE2RVzeNfdv559MaSjkReIF_fEM9tn https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/fmTE2RVzeNfdv559MaSjkRhSCv31NykC Climbers who know this great mountain will agree that it is the mightiest and most imposing in all Britain. On leaving Kinlochewe to drive down Glen Torridon, you first skirt the quartzite slopes of Beinn Eighe, but on reaching Loch Clair it suddenly burst upon the view across the moor, its eastern ramparts falling almost … Continue reading Torridon →]]> Wed, 11 Dec 2019 13:00:08 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/fmTE2RVzeNfdv559MaSjkRhSCv31NykC https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/fmTE2RVzeNfdv559MaSjkR-xWH3zZqEA ARTHUR: You… are you saying that you originally made the Earth? SLARTIBARTFAST: Oh yes… did you ever go to a place… I think it’s called Norway? ARTHUR: What? No, no I didn’t. SLARTIBARTFAST: Pity… that was one of mine. Won an award you know, lovely crinkly edges. Douglas Adams, Hitch-hiker’s Guide To The Galaxy: The … Continue reading Western Norway →]]> Wed, 28 Aug 2019 14:00:01 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/fmTE2RVzeNfdv559MaSjkR-xWH3zZqEA https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/fmTE2RVzeNfdv559MaSjkWsGk81fO-bN At the end of my report on Islay, I promised you more Hebrides. This time, we headed off to Mull. We stayed in a house on Calgary Bay, in the northwest of the island—here’s the view from our front window: The tiny village of Calgary (Calgaraidh in Gaelic) is the namesake of Calgary in Alberta, … Continue reading Mull →]]> Wed, 12 Jun 2019 14:00:54 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/fmTE2RVzeNfdv559MaSjkWsGk81fO-bN https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/fmTE2RVzeNfdv559MaSjkeQEmsPXZ5C9 Another year, another Hebridean island. This time we spent a week on Islay. (For non-Scottish readers, it’s probably worth mentioning that the second syllable of the island’s name is pronounced “la”, rather than “lay”. Nothing betrays the whisky dilettante more quickly than a profession of enthusiasm for Is-LAY malts.) We stayed in another one of … Continue reading Islay →]]> Wed, 15 May 2019 14:00:48 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/fmTE2RVzeNfdv559MaSjkeQEmsPXZ5C9 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/fmTE2RVzeNfdv559MaSjkQVLTsI7B9NX One party elected to explore St. Michael’s Cave with almost tragic consequences. For a peculiarly long subaltern of Rifles succeeded in becoming jambed [sic] in “Clincher Hole”. In his case, it was not owing to extra width of shoulders or depth of chest as in that of the British bluejackets who had been unable to … Continue reading Gibraltar →]]> Wed, 03 Apr 2019 14:00:56 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/fmTE2RVzeNfdv559MaSjkQVLTsI7B9NX https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/fmTE2RVzeNfdv559MaSjkVhGNgNo2_0q Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors. Henry James, The Century Magazine, vol. XXV (November 1882) We haven’t been to Venice for close to three years, so it seemed like time to go back. We were a month or two earlier than our usual timing, and … Continue reading First Venice, Then Vienna →]]> Wed, 24 Oct 2018 14:00:53 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/fmTE2RVzeNfdv559MaSjkVhGNgNo2_0q https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/fmTE2RVzeNfdv559MaSjkeGkz6RCC25z The whole group rises from the ocean, high and precipitous, surrounded by wall of lofty rocks, imposing on account of their wild aspect and the deep bays and gulfs which separate them from each other. The cliffs, in many cases, are so perpendicular, that the boats are let down by ropes, whilst the sailors clamber … Continue reading Faeroe Islands →]]> Wed, 22 Aug 2018 14:00:47 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/fmTE2RVzeNfdv559MaSjkeGkz6RCC25z https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/fmTE2RVzeNfdv559MaSjkUGb1Jh49AJn May’s always a good time to visit the west coast of Scotland. This time, we had a pleasantly sunny stay on the Ardnamurchan peninsula, north of Mull. The main road in Ardnamurchan is the B8007, a classification that pretty much says it all—it’s a winding single-track with passing places, which sticks largely to the shore … Continue reading Ardnamurchan →]]> Wed, 30 May 2018 14:00:46 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/fmTE2RVzeNfdv559MaSjkUGb1Jh49AJn