Highlights of 2012

Added on 21 September 2012

Already 2012 has been a great year. We began it with a visit to the Falkland Islands (see Tristan da Cunha cruise below), then in April we briefly visited the wonderful Bandia Wildlife Reserve near Dakar in Senegal before spending three days on the Cape Verde islands, where we got to know some of t...

Latest cruises announced

Added on 01 September 2012

We are coming to the end of another busy year of cruising, with a lecturing trip for me (without Sue) to Barbados, Grenada, St Lucia and Antigua in the Caribbean in November. Although many companies are cutting down on their lecture bookings so they can sell the extra cabins instead, we have some g...

Wild Flowers Mini-Guide

Added on 10 July 2012

To complement my Scottish Wild Flowers book, Birlinn Ltd has now published a smaller 'Mini Guide to Scottish Wild Flowers'. This is a stripped-down, 200-page version of the original guide, covering the commonest Scottish species but in rather less detail, and with fewer features. It's i...

Passage to Tristan da Cunha

Added on 25 January 2012

We have just returned from an amazing 32-day cruise, organised by Noble Caledonia on board the 5-star expedition ship Island Sky. It took us and 90-odd lucky passengers to places I certainly never thought we'd be able to visit. We flew out to join the ship on the Cape Verde islands, with a day ...