Packing for Adventure
Millican Outdoor and Travel Bags When we first came across the Millican range of outdoor and travel bags we recognised immediately the quality and integrity inherent in each piece. We weren’t looking to add to our range but when you stumble across products this good, only a fool would walk on by. [...]
What do Your Feet Wear at the Weekend?
Scott Nichol Country Socks There is something about a nice chunky knit sock that confers an atmosphere of relaxation and comfort on any day of the week, but something especially appropriate about them for weekend wear. Folding down a nice Fairisle over the top of your walking boots before setting forth over [...]
Great Walks in the Scottish Borders
A Hume Guide to the Scottish Borders # 5 In this our fifth post in the A Hume Guide to the Borders we want to focus on the simple pleasure of putting one foot in front of another. Walking can be inspiring, invigorating, soothing or meditative; walking across country with friends in [...]
Boots – Stride with Pride
This is the time of year when women start to rummage around in their wardrobes, digging out their woollier items and sifting out garments that are starting to look a little tatty. It’s a time of seasonal transition, a moment to be enjoyed when the winter ahead hasn’t yet started to bite and exists [...]
Long Weekend in the Scottish Borders Part II
A Hume Guide to the Scottish Borders # 3 Saturday Afternoon. In Part I we left you enjoying a gourmet picnic from Pharlanne on the banks of the tweed, in a scene so perfect it seems a shame to disturb it, and truly, we wouldn’t drag you away unless we had something really special [...]
Britain’s Longest Walk to the Pub
The Pennine Way snakes 268 miles along the rugged backbone of Northern England, from Eadale in Derbyshire it transects the Peak District, the Yorkshire Dales, and Northumberland National Park, ending at The Border Hotel in the bucolic setting of Scottish village, Kirk Yetholm. As Britain’s oldest national trail, many consider The Pennine Way the [...]
