We ran the hostel for 20 years (1992 to 2012) and lived in the village of Newtonmore for 25 years. We miss aspects of village life such as the good friends we left behind and Craigellachie House, where we lived. We don’t miss the cold winters. To have continued would have been unsustainable as we got older; it was time to move on, all things must pass. Continue reading The Story of Newtonmore Hostel
My dad purchased his Graham Weigh frame around 1990, made up a bike, and raced on it until 1992 when, at the age of 79, he died in a cycling accident. I inherited the bike together with a lifetimes worth of his cycling bits to add to my own lifetime pile. Continue reading Graham Weigh Cycle Renovation
Experiences of rounding Cape Horn by a crew member from the lower deck of the old sailing ships Continue reading Rounding Cape Horn – We found this letter in the back of a second-hand book
Reduce, Re-use, Re-cycle. Written as owner of Newtonmore Hostel in the ‘early’ days of re-cycling Continue reading Reduce, Re-use, Recycle
