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Stuart Kenny

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Scottish outdoor travel writer 🌲 ✏️: The Guardian, BBC etc.

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Ramblers Scotland @ramblersscotland.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Remember when a Perthshire landowner blocked access to 4 Munros for 2 months last year? 🗻 Well, sadly he's at it again - and we really need your help. ✅ Sign our petition today at www.ramblers.org.uk/glenlyon @scotways.com @walkhighlands.co.uk @ramblers.org.uk
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Campaigning for walkers’ access in Glen Lyon
Ramblers Scotland is campaigning for walkers’ right to enjoy 4 popular Munros in Glen Lyon, one of Scotland's most beautiful glens.
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Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com · 12/08/2026
good petition at ramblers.org.uk/glenlyon - backed by Walkhighlands and ScotWays - to maintain walkers’ right to enjoy four popular Munros (Càrn Gorm, Meall Garbh, Càrn Mairg and Creag Mhòr) in Glen Lyon throughout the year
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Campaigning for walkers’ access in Glen Lyon
Ramblers Scotland is campaigning for walkers’ right to enjoy 4 popular Munros in Glen Lyon, one of Scotland's most beautiful glens.
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Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com · 07/07/2026
My latest for BBC Travel, from the new Deep Time Trail at Siccar Point. "The one-mile coastal walk leads visitors across the Berwickshire cliffs to the outcrop where the geologist James Hutton found evidence that the Earth was vastly older than anyone had imagined." www.bbc.co.uk/travel/artic...
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Walk the Scottish coast that changed science
A new trail on Scotland's east coast takes travellers into Earth's ancient past, where scientists proved the planet was vastly older than anyone had imagined.
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Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com · 07/07/2026
My latest for BBC Travel, from the new Deep Time Trail at Siccar Point. "The one-mile coastal walk leads visitors across the Berwickshire cliffs to the outcrop where the geologist James Hutton found evidence that the Earth was vastly older than anyone had imagined." www.bbc.co.uk/travel/artic...
bbc.co.uk
Walk the Scottish coast that changed science
A new trail on Scotland's east coast takes travellers into Earth's ancient past, where scientists proved the planet was vastly older than anyone had imagined.
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Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com · 12/05/2026
"People couldn’t hear their telenovelas. Others couldn’t get to hospital appointments because the escalators and stairways were blocked." I spoke to locals about the issues in Comuna 13, a story of positive urban transformation tipping into overtourism. www.muchbetteradventures.com/magazine/no-...
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Why We’re No Longer Visiting Comuna 13 in Medellín
The colour-soaked walls of Comuna 13 tell a powerful story of transformation, but overtourism is now rife - and it's changing life for locals.
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Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com · 08/05/2026
Another excellent edition of 🪦The Graveyard Shift 🪦open mic night at Diggers last night! As ever, thanks to all who came along for a pie, a pint and some music and poetry - and particularly to those who performed 🎙️ ⏭️ Next on: Tues 21 July - get in touch for an open mic slot!
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Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com · 08/05/2026
Thanks again Annie - a brilliant set 😁
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Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com · 07/05/2026
Our next Graveyard Shift open mic is TODAY at the Diggers! 🎤 Feature sets from @anniebrechin.bsky.social , @strongmisgiving.bsky.social and Grant B. robertson 🎤 Start time 7pm, running till 9pm. See you there?
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Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com · 06/05/2026
My latest, on how tourism can put people and place first 👇 “It’s really about fairness,” says Rebecca Armstrong. “The value that #tourism generates doesn’t always reach as far as we might expect - or as far as we know is possible.” www.muchbetteradventures.com/magazine/equ...
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The Tourism Economy Is Booming. But For Whom?
“It’s about fairness,” says Rebecca Armstrong. “The value that tourism generates doesn’t always reach as far as we expect..."
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Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com · 30/04/2026
also still some open mic slots available! E-mail is on the poster (or DM me) if anyone would like to join!
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Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com · 30/04/2026
next poetry open mic at the Diggers, a week today 👇
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Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com · 23/03/2026
Beinn Eighe, ya beaut! ✨✍️ If you missed it in print on Saturday, my piece from Beinn Eighe National Nature Reserve - which became Britain's first NNR when it was created 75 years ago - is on @theguardian.com today. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 www.theguardian.com/travel/2026/...
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‘You’d be pushed to find a more soul-stirring landscape in Scotland’: walking in Beinn Eighe
It isn’t only climbers who get misty-eyed about the awe-inspiring mountains and ancient pinewoods of Britain’s first national nature reserve, created 75 years ago
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Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com · 15/04/2026
A piece I don't think I've posted. From my 130km trek along the GR-R2 on Réunion Island - coast to coast through mountain cirques and jungle, on an island of sharks and volcanoes... www.muchbetteradventures.com/magazine/reu...
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'It Feels Alive': We Hiked 100km Across Réunion Island
Stuart Kenny heads to Reunion Island, crossing volcanic cirques and jungles and climbing Piton des Neiges, the highest point in the Indian Ocean.
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Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com · 31/03/2026
i couldn't say for sure but it's certainly got more Rey Mysterio references
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Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com · 31/03/2026
I will be jumping on the BBC Radio Scotland Good Morning show at 8.50am with music maestro Grant Robertson to talk about our new Scotland song - 'Steve Clarke's American Dream'! Tune into the radio and - give the song a whirl 👇🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 open.spotify.com/track/4gVQf2...
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Steve Clarke's American Dream
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Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com · 24/03/2026
Eventually, "these bloody, severed heads came aground downstream", gathering at a shallow point which became known as Anancaun (Ath nan Ceann) - translating as The Ford of the Heads. So. Place names *do* tell a story (4/4). 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com · 24/03/2026
That brings us to Black Murdo of the Cave, who - sometime around 1350 - slew the followers of Leod Mac Gilleandreis, who had taken his family's lands at nearby Kinlochewe, then decapitated them and threw their heads in the Abhainn Cheann Loch Iu (the river of Kinlochewe). (3/4)
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Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com · 24/03/2026
The story of people in Wester Ross begins around the time of the pinewoods. They were hunter-gatherers, then Pictish farmers who later came under the rules of Vikings. After Scots defeated the Norse, the NW fell under the sway of the MacLeods and the MacKenzies of Kintail... (2/4)
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Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com · 24/03/2026
The *bleakest* Beinn Eighe story from my reading that i was unable to fit in the article was about the origin of the name of 'Anancaun', which is now the base for the NNR and NatureScot staff. It concerns the "most colourful of the MacKenzies", Black Murdo of the Cave... (1/4) 👇🧵🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com · 23/03/2026
Beinn Eighe, ya beaut! ✨✍️ If you missed it in print on Saturday, my piece from Beinn Eighe National Nature Reserve - which became Britain's first NNR when it was created 75 years ago - is on @theguardian.com today. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 www.theguardian.com/travel/2026/...
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‘You’d be pushed to find a more soul-stirring landscape in Scotland’: walking in Beinn Eighe
It isn’t only climbers who get misty-eyed about the awe-inspiring mountains and ancient pinewoods of Britain’s first national nature reserve, created 75 years ago
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Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com · 25/02/2026
I headed out to La Réunion - a farflung island born when the shield volcano Piton des Neiges erupted out of the Indian Ocean - to trek the GR-R2. 130km coast to coast via cirque walls, jungle and volcanic summits 🇷🇪 👉 full feature in JRNY Issue 12 - jrnymag.com/product/jrny...
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Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com · 24/02/2026
they didn't have a leg to stand on
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Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com · 12/02/2026
Our line up for the March edition of The Graveyard Shift - our poetry open mic night at the legendary Diggers pub 👇 E-mail for an open mic slot or come down and watch!
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Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com · 10/02/2026
another night at table-topping Tynecastle Park 🇱🇻
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Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com · 07/02/2026
"but you said you'd give me the gold medal?"
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Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com · 06/02/2026
me? yeah, i love the stones (the curling stones)
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Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com · 30/01/2026
This excellent feature from Lucy was the latest in our #UnlockingAdventure series, which is aimed at breaking down any and all barriers to getting exploring outdoors. We have some budget for commissioning for this series, so if have an idea do send me a pitch at: stuart@muchbetteradventures.com
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'It Felt Like I Was Trespassing on the Privilege of Adventure Travel'
As a mixed-race woman travelling solo, it felt like I was trespassing on the privilege of adventure travel, writes Lucy Ruthnum
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Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com · 23/01/2026
What a night at the Diggers! Thanks to everyone who packed out the room 🎤 Great open mic-ers, two top sets from Jack Hinks - and I got to share a set of new material with a room of extremely lovely people 🙏🎸 📌 Next GYS open mic: Mon 23 March. Features TBC 🍺
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Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com · 20/01/2026
My first night co-hosting the Graveyard Shift at Diggers! Expecting a good turnout so get down early if you're coming along 👇🍺
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Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com · 15/12/2025
A little bit more on Kosovo's Via Dinarica trail from me! In the company of some wonderful travel writers here: www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...
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Our 25 favourite European travel discoveries of 2025
The most exciting places our writers came across in Europe this year, from untouched islands in Finland to an affordable ski resort in Bulgaria and the perfect Parisian bistro
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Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com · 14/11/2025
Beinn Eighe and Liathach, from Loch Clair 🍂
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Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com · 02/11/2025
Tynecastle has been a rare treat this season! The dream start continues. The angry guy who sits behind me and hates short corners is beginning to concede that we may, in fact, be quite good this year.
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Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com · 22/10/2025
Autumn in the Torridon hills - dream stuff!
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Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com · 20/10/2025
On the mountain trail on Beinn Eighe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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The Geologists' Association @geolassoc.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Lovely article in The Guardian newspaper highlighting Scotland's new UNESCO Geopark on Arran. Some light weekend reading to inspire your next geological adventure. www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...
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A brief history of the Earth on a walk around the Isle of Arran, Scotland
A six-day hike on Arran – a new Unesco Geopark – reveals tales of dinosaurs, tectonic plate collisions and lightning strikes from millions of years ago
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Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com · 05/09/2025
"There are stone bunkers shrouded in the mist on the hillside to my right, just shy of the ridgeline marking the Albanian-Kosovo border. To my left, the view is not just clear but startlingly beautiful." From my hike on the Via Dinarica Kosovo, with the mountaineer Uta Ibrahimi.
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‘I wish the stones here could talk’: an epic hike through Kosovo’s Accursed mountains
A trek along the Kosovo section of the Via Dinarica offers majestic Balkan scenery, magical stories and sobering reminders of this area’s recent history
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Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com · 03/09/2025
There's a *tiny* bit of overlap between the two - beautiful routes!
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Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com · 03/09/2025
I spent a week in #Kosovo hiking with Uta Ibrahimi, who recently became the first woman from the Balkans to climb every 8,000m peak. We walked the Via Dinarica Kosovo, criss-crossing borders with Montenegro & Albania. 👉 On @theguardian.com now: www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...
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Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com · 22/08/2025
"why not use a co-working space?" The public library:
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Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com · 11/08/2025
really interesting listen, this - particularly for the Edinburgh-based amongst us👇 open.spotify.com/episode/1o7Z...
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How the University of Edinburgh helped create scientific racism
Today in Focus · Episode
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Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com · 09/08/2025
What's sleepin' in our soul 🫨🤩🎶 I had *unreasonably* high expectations for Oasis last night and they went and exceeded every single one of them. #oasis #acquiesce #murrayfield #edinburgh
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Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com · 24/07/2025
Up to the summit of Gjeravica (2,656m) - the highest mountain solely in Kosovo, a stone's throw from the Albanian border 🇽🇰🇦🇱
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Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com · 09/07/2025
Along we go... 🇽🇰🇲🇪🇦🇱 A few more shots from the Via Dinarica Kosovo trail. Moving along from the border with Montenegro to the border with Albania and so, to highest mountains in Kosovo.
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Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com · 08/07/2025
A taster of yesterday on the Via Dinarica Kosovo - walking the border with Montenegro 🥾
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Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com · 07/07/2025
My next story brings me out to Kosovo 🇽🇰 I'm going to be hiking on the Via Dinarica this week, and with a bit of weather luck, getting up Gjeravica - the country's highest peak. Photographs below from Pristina.
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Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com · 05/07/2025
I took a voyage along the 26 bus route, down to Portobello, for my latest piece for @theguardian.com. 👉 on why people can’t stay away from Porty, and a community fighting to stop a (now-but-not-always) trendy seaside town from becoming a “holiday let”. In the Saturday pull-out today ⛱️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com · 03/07/2025
The latest edition of Scottish Wildlife dropped through the door today, featuring my cover story on the grey seals of Little Linga and Linga Holm, the northernmost reserves of the Wildlife Trust movement 🦭🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com · 19/06/2025
can't make it on BBC Sco this morning to talk tourist tax unfortunately, but my view is that they're commonplace now for good reason - not a fix-all solution but one extremely effective way to ensure local communities benefit from tourism, preventing overtourism & ill will to tourists
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Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com · 11/06/2025
I have been a good few times now and - remarkably - still not had rain. That said, I have had a day nearing 60mph where I was almost blown into the water...
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Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com · 11/06/2025
A few more stills from the Way for any Arran enthusiasts (which, let's be honest, should be all of you) out there... 🌊⛰️🌅
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