The remote Islands of Scotland stretching 250 miles north east of the mainland to Muckle Flugga in Shetland, which I visited in 2004, and 100 miles west to the volcanic archipelago of St. Kilda have long been an obsession. I first visited Orkney in 1974 and again in 1996. St. Kilda in 1989 and again in 2009/10. Shiant in 1995 and 2010 and Cape Warth and the coast of Wester Ross in 1991 and 2011.

The really extreme outposts of Flannen, Sula Sgeir and North Rona, with their early churches and legends and traces of habitation I visited in 2011.

The inner Isles of Muck and the sea of the Hebrides I visited in 1978 and 2004 and its … islands in 2005/6.

Scotland / North of Loch Ness