Guardian newspaper
Living off the grid: Scotland's wind-powered community [05.19.2008]
Hugh Piggott is a pioneering creator of recycled wind turbines. He has managed to power and maintain an entire community on Scotland's north-west coast where he runs courses teaching wind turbine construction to students from all over the world....
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Daily Telegraph magazine
Activity breaks: singing in the highlands [07.02.2008]
The activity break has moved beyond pony-trekking and painting, as holidaymakers seek to pursue more specialist interests. For Will Ellsworth-Jones it was a case of rediscovering his voice in the remote Scottish Highlands....
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Daily Telegraph magazine
Scotland: Travels with Patch [13.12.2002]
Gavin Bell and his free-spirited dog head into one of the most remote corners of Scotland.
Along time ago I bought a picture in an Alpine village. It is a little oil painting of a rustic scene in which a man is strolling through a summer meadow towards a forest. Behind his back he is clasping a book, and at his heels trots a small white dog....
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