Out & About …

… on the North York Moors, or wherever I happen to be.

Category: Muirshiel Country Park

  • Largs and the Fairlie Roads

    Largs and the Fairlie Roads

    Another photo from the OMM weekend in Scotland. This is the final descent to the finish in Largs (or An Leargaidh Ghallda in Gaelic) with super views across the Firth of Clyde and the island of Great Cumbrae. The sound between Largs and Great Cumbrae is known as the Fairlie Roads. The only history I…

  • Muirshiel Country Park

    Muirshiel Country Park

    The term ‘country park’ brings up an image of a Capability Brown inspired landscape, broad swathes of close-cropped grass pasture grazed by herds of deer with a scattering of veteran trees, sweeping down to a lake. Muirshiel Country Park, west of Glasgow is 110 square miles of blanket bog with knee-high tussocks and soul-destroying heather.…