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Skuyö Nordic Skye – Scandi style accommodation

Trish Burgess Posted on05/09/202506/09/2025 luxury accommodation, Scotland, self-catering, Skye Leave a Comment
double bed with pale cushions, light shining in from window.

I know Slow Travel is something to be admired but my Slow Travel Blogging seems to be taking things a step too far. We visited Skye in April 2024, I wrote my first post about

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I’ve just come down from the Isle of Skye…

Trish Burgess Posted on18/05/202506/09/2025 Edinburgh, Fingal, luxury accommodation, Scotland, Skye 1 Comment
Fingal hotel in Leith harbour

The opening line of Andy Stewart’s ‘Donald, Where’s Your Troosers?’ seems a great way to start a blog post about a wonderful trip to Scotland to stay on the Isle of Skye. Well it would

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Staying at The Old Dairy, Cambridge Country Cottages

Trish Burgess Posted on01/02/202301/02/2023 Cambridge, cottage, luxury accommodation, self-catering Leave a Comment
The Old Dairy, living room and kitchen

2022 was the year we searched the internet for romantic retreats, barn conversions and country cottages. We booked short breaks in beautiful self-catering accommodation on the outskirts of York, the coast near Whitby and the

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Graduation road trip: Shingle Lodge at Knockinaam Lodge hotel

Trish Burgess Posted on14/08/201730/01/2019 Dumfries and Galloway, luxury accommodation, Scotland 29 Comments
Exterior, Shingle Lodge, KNockinaam Lodge hotel

“We rumbled slowly into a land of little wooded glens and then to a great wide moorland place, gleaming with lochs, with high blue hills showing northwards.”  John Buchan, The Thirty-Nine Steps. Buchan’s thrilling novel, with

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