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Baby Eels in a Highland stream

June 15, 2017June 16, 2017John D Burns 1

Really delighted to have captured this amazing sight on video. Baby eels in a Highland stream. Here’s a great blog about eel fishing [...]

June 10, 2017John D Burns 4

Books are dead. In the future no one will read paperbacks, e-books will rule and the only place for paper books will be [...]

June 7, 2017June 7, 2017John D Burns 8

THE PAIN AND THE GLORY The Victorian’s were very fond of big pointy things. So fond, in fact, that they have littered the [...]

May 31, 2017John D Burns 4

I have been walking for a long, long time. The past life I have has faded into oblivion. I have become a simple [...]

John Burns talks about his experiences walking the Pennine way, then, 1974 as a 19 year old, and now, in his retirement. [...]

May 24, 2017May 26, 2017John D Burns 3

It’s hot for May. On the small station platform at Edale, the air is filled with bird song and the scent of flowers [...]

Join me as I visit this remote bothy in the North of Scotland. If you enjoyed the recording like this page or make [...]

April 10, 2017April 11, 2017John D Burns 1

Here’s my latest trip along the Great Glen Way from Drumnadrochit to Inverness beside Loch Ness. I jumped on the bus and waved [...]

April 4, 2017April 11, 2017John D Burns 1

Join me on this audio blog as I walk into the heart of the Cairngorms and spend the night in Faindouran Bothy. [...]

After six miles slogging up a mountain track, heading for a bothy, I start to hate my pack. It’s heavy, cumbersome, and expects [...]