Landscape Lore

23/05/2025

📖 The seanchaidh wasn’t just a storyteller — they were a memory-keeper.
They held genealogy, land knowledge, clan history and cultural identity.
That’s why we still honour their role in our walks.

21/05/2025

Not Just Castles & Clans 🏛
Yes, we talk about clans.
But we also talk about birds, peat, women’s work, sacred springs, and songs your great-grandmother might’ve hummed.
History isn’t all battles. It’s breath and belonging.
📷 Photo credit: Robert Paisley .uk

19/05/2025

🗣️ Words from the Land
Some Gaelic words are impossible to translate fully, but still deeply felt.
Like dùthchas — the sense of belonging to the land...
📷 Photo Credit: Robert Paisley .uk

17/05/2025

🕯️ Not All Stories Are Light
Folklore remembers hardship: famine, clearances, persecution.
But these stories also carry resilience — and often hope.
Our walks don’t shy away from the hard parts.
They make space for it all.
📷 photo Credit: Robert Paisley .uk

15/05/2025

🥾Book a Private Lore Walk
Did you know we offer fully private, tailored storytelling walks?
Whether you're interested in clan history, women’s stories, folklore or the supernatural — we’ll build your experience around the places and themes that matter to you.
Dogs welcome. Curiosity essential.

13/05/2025

🏕️ It’s never about rushing.
Landscape Lore walks are rooted in a slower pace, real connection, and listening — to stories, to nature, to one another.
Come as you are. Leave with a little more.
📷Photo Credit: Robert Paisley @creativewilderness.uk

11/05/2025

🐉What You’ll Hear on a Walk 🥾
On a typical walk, you might hear:
Why a certain rock is called the Giant’s Chair
Where the Cailleach is said to sleep
How a glen got its name
What stories once brought people comfort through hardship or exile
And maybe even… a song on the wind.
📷 Picture Credit: Robert Paisley .uk

09/05/2025

📚 Folk tales have never stood still. They shift with time, grow with each telling, and adapt to whoever needs them.
That's the beauty of oral culture — it’s alive, just like the land we walk on.

07/05/2025

Many Highland stories carry warnings. Whether it's Kelpies, exploding wildcats (Yes, there is a story...), fairy dogs, witches, or places you’re never to sleep in...
We don’t just tell these stories — we explore why they were told in the first place.
📷Photo Credit: Robert Paisley .uk

06/05/2025

Looking forward to this

🌊Tues 13th May: 'ACROSS THE SEA' 🌊
🕗 7pm - 9.30pm
🏡 Kincraig Church Hall

Inspired by the work of our featured guest, Rubén Jarramplas, our theme for May is: 'Across the Sea'.

Rubén Jarramplas is a talented multi-instrumentalist whose musical journey spans Spain, Scotland, and beyond. Born in Spain, Rubén began his career with the gaita (Galician bagpipes) and has since become an accomplished piper, whistle player, and flautist. He has contributed richly to Scotland’s traditional music scene, tutoring with Fèis Spè, Fèis Rois, and the Youth Music Initiative across the Highlands, since moving to Inverness in 2016.

Rubén will share music that weaves together Scottish, Galician, and wider transatlantic influences, reflecting on emigration, exile, cultural exchange, and the powerful ties that bind communities across oceans.

Booking is open now and as ever, contributions from all ages are welcome. The show is preceded by a Stagecraft Session for young people with musician Hamish Napier and writer Merryn Glover - an interactive practice session from 5.45pm-6.45pm.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/storylands-sessions-show-tickets-1115548318049

VisitCairngorms

05/05/2025

A Lore Walk isn’t just a hike. It’s a slow journey through stories, place-names, memories and myths — all rooted in the ground beneath your feet.
We walk to remember, to reconnect, and to feel the stories carried in the hills.
📷Photo Credit: Robert Paisley .uk

04/05/2025

This is quite a while ago now, on the very rare occasion that I actually got a lovely group photo at a storytelling tour. Mostly, because someone else remembered to take it😅
Fantastic group, very interested in oral tradition, history and stories and I loved all the questions and conversations after our mini tour around the baracks.
So grateful for every curious mind I meet along this journey 🥰