From Kintyre in the south to the Cape Wrath at the very top windswept corner of the country, the west coast of Scotland represents nothing less than a wiggly slice of paddling paradise. At almost ...

I needed a little escape, and so I grabbed a canoe, my camping gear, and picked a dead-end lake with a single campsite on it.

A diary detailing the work of the programme-makers Simon Willis and Cailean MacLeod as they trace a classic 1934 kayak expedition along Scotland’s west coast for a BBC Scotland radio series.

GRAYLING-- Canoe camping is a great way to get outdoors for a few days, especially if you are canoeing a moderately fast, clean and cool river like the Manistee River. The Manistee runs some 240 ...

In airport departure lounges around the world, you can always find a selection of Scottish whiskies for sale. Upon the shelves will be bottles whose names recited together sound like poetry — Linkwood ...

A man is travelling the width of Scotland and back in a hand-built “bicycle canoe”. Ben Kilner, 36, spent two months making the unique contraption to take on more than 150 miles of land and sea.

Simon Willis follows the trail of two journalists' classic kayak expedition along Scotland’s west coast in a three-part radio series. There are few photographs of the design of boat paddled by ...