Travel
The Skinny travel guide. We take an alternative approach to travel writing, exploring what it is to travel as well as sharing the unique international experiences of our writers. Sightseeing recommendations, features, guides and adventures for avid globetrotters to amateur travelers may also feature.
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Sightseeing
Icarus' Children: The Art of Paragliding in Scotland
In Scotland paragliding is a thriving sport, and the countrywide network of SHPF clubs offers hundreds of flying sites and a supportive environment for both flying and socialialising Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Sightseeing
Xscape to the white slopes
An opportunity for Scotland's snow-starved ski buffs to hit the slopes all year long. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
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Go Away to Europe
Ok, not exactly a sport, but the International Bathtub Regatta is a seriously bizarre race involving bathtubs Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
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Go Away to Falkland, Fife
Stewardship is a new-but-ancient term to describe looking after the environment - or, more simply, ""minding the future."" Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
Features
Lost in Tokyo?
The most technologically advanced country in the world with an old fashioned formality of manners and many a cultural clash under the surface; Japan is a mix... Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
Sightseeing
Fort William UCI Mountain Bike World Cup
Speed, skill, nerve and control are the keywords at the Fort William Mountain Bike World Cup, a two-wheel heaven for bike lovers. Read more »| 16 May 2006
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Sightseeing
Go Away to Aberdeen
If this year's anything like last year catch Go North's flagged talent before they go massive! Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
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Scottish Tourism Week
Formed in 1997 to represent the tourism industry views and to take these views to government and public agencies, the Edinburgh-based Scottish Tourism Forum ... Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
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Snowboarding in Edinburgh
Due to the facilities on offer at Midlothian Snowsports Centre, there has been a noticeable increase of enthusiastic snowboarders in Edinburgh. MSC sports d... Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
Sightseeing
Snowboard Heat
1. How did you first get into snowboarding and where has it taken you?I first learnt on a family skiing holiday in St. Anton, Austria, thirteen years ago. At... Read more »| 15 Feb 2006