More Than Words

⛵️More Than Words – Stage 14: It’s A Hard Loch Life⛵️ Because nothing says “Highland adventure” like failed gold rushes, haunted pubs, and goats still holding grudges from the 18th century. Featuring: ⚔️ Scotland’s most scenic lost‑property office 🏰Achallader Castle: Highland piñata 💀True Detective: Glen Orchy (pilot) 💰 Tyndrum’s gold saga: 300 years of optimism, spoiler — the rocks won 🚉 To...

🏔️ More Than Words - Episode 13: Ridge Magnets 🏔️ Because nothing says “scenic route” like collecting three Ballachulishes, avoiding murderous water horses, and accidentally stumbling into a Red Wedding origin story. Featuring: 💀 The Glencoe Massacre: Airbnb of Annihilation (0 stars, would not recommend) 🚢 A ferry so vital its breakdown qualifies as a local apocalypse 🎬 Harry Potter waterfalls...

🏔️ More Than Words - Episode 12: Never Say Nevis Again 🏔️ Because nothing says “holiday” like trudging up Britain’s highest mountain through fog, drizzle, and your own questionable life choices. Featuring: 🧠 The psychology of voluntarily walking into a cloud 🌊 Lochs, locks and lock-ins 🏰 A castle renovation with imported mud 🐶 Cow windpipes as pet food: discuss 🌳 Planking since 1975 - surely...

Stage 11: Log Ness Monster From opera under the Cypriot stars to murderous Highland folklore — this one’s got everything: monsters, decapitations, ecclesiastical drama, and a Loch that refuses to give up its secrets. Highlights include: 🎬Mission Impossible: Seat of Judgement 🏰 Urquhart Castle — beautiful, brooding, and 80% souvenir shop 💀 The Well of the Seven Heads (exactly what it says on the...

Stage 10: Whisky Business From suncream and ruins in Paphos to clan feuds and distilleries in the Highlands — this one’s a journey from Mango Margaritas to Mackenzies, with detours for poisoned servants, dragon chases, and the occasional historical fire probably started by a bird. Highlights include: 🧱 A medieval castle repurposed as a condiment warehouse 💀 A “Tomb of the Kings” containing zero...

Stage 9 of More Than Words: “Tainspotting.”  Because nothing says “Scottish coastal charm” like witch trials and a 3000-acre bombing range. Featuring: ⛳ A career-best immediately followed by an 18-hole existential crisis 🌿 Gardening: the new contact sport🏰 Dunrobin Castle — Versailles with bagpipes and historical amnesia 🪦 The Duke of Sutherland: statue, scandal, selective explosions 🧙‍♀️ Sco...

Episode 8 of More Than Words: “Stile And Tribulation.” Featuring: 🏌️‍♂️ The Werther’s Original Trophy 📱 Komoot: an app that hates your shins 🪜 Whaligoe Steps — 330 reasons to skip leg day forever 🐟 Female fish workers tougher than CrossFit instructors ⚔️ Highland Clearances: “progress” with flaming torches 🥇 Knotty: shinty with extra concussion 💰 Helmsdale Gold Rush — the Wild West, but wette...

Episode 7 of More Than Words: “I’ve Got A99 Problems (But a Broch Ain’t One)” Because nothing screams “holiday vibes” like whirlpools, feral cows, and Viking soap operas. Featuring:

 🌪️ The firth of froth
 🐄 Feral cattle
 🎶 The original “Islands in the Stream” 
📸 John o’ Groats: signpost selfies, shattered illusions
 🏰 Bucholie Castle: visitors not welcome
 🪞 Neolithic eyebrow routines
 🚂 A...

Episode 6 of More Than Words is here! Featuring: 🪨 Castle Bloody — less massacre, more Neolithic IKEA 🗿 Giants chucking monoliths at each other 🌉Churchill’s Gap Years 🏰 A laird who demolished a village for a better view ⛪ A chapel built from corned beef tins and an exhaust pipe ⛳ Britain’s most northerly crazy golf course (bring an anorak) 🐎 Children ploughing sand and dressed as Clydesdale...

Episode 5 is here! ... “Things Can Only Get Wetter.” Because nothing says “travel podcast” like kelp, 18th century cryptocurrency, and a boiling-water tap with a vendetta. Featuring: 🔥 Child-proof tech that isn’t middle-aged-man-proof 🐟 Herring history (because nothing screams drama like fish logistics) 🍘 Seaweed — the Bitcoin of the 18th century 🧀 Monks Bear Grylls would salute, assuming he c...

It's Episode 4 of More Than Words — the podcast where I claim to be traversing Britain, but in reality I’m just sweating on a spin bike. This week we’re still at sea, so expect: Fair Isle’s knitwear empire North Ronaldsay’s seaweed‑eating sheep Enough lighthouses to keep the Stevenson family in royalties for generations Spanish shipwrecks, and A golf ball incident that nearly ended this podcas...

Episode 3 of More Than Words! This week we sail from Shetland to Orkney ... expect ferries, ponies, giants, Norse feminism, knitwear, and the occasional 7th‑century gang tag. Think history, humour, and a healthy dose of sarcasm — basically Bill Bryson, if he’d stayed for that sixth pint.

OK, it’s time for the thing absolutely nobody asked for - Episode 2 of my "More Than Words" virtual travelogue. There'll be history, myth, and place names that make 12-year-olds giggle. You can also expect: Norse parliaments Oil-fuelled boomtowns Fire festivals, A Viking-themed Shetland spinoff Rabbits guarding WWII gun batteries

Welcome to Episode 1 of More Than Words! Expect: Towns that sound like IKEA shelving units, The Shetland Space Centre, Ghostly architects, Viking boats, and Britain’s most overachieving bus stop

Exploring Britain’s furthest flung places — and the limits of one man’s knees. “More Than Words” is a podcast chronicling a virtual expedition across Britain’s extremes — from the northernmost village to the southernmost settlement, with stops at the highest peak, the lowest fen, and several places that sound made up. It’s part fitness challenge, part cultural exploration, and mostly an excuse to...