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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Festivals
Festival Watch: Vikings @ Up Helly Aa
Ah, the Vikings and their renown as history's most hirsute bunch of raping, pillaging murderers. Well, perhaps not. Recent research from some cardigan and co... Read more »| 03 Dec 2010 -
Sightseeing
Go Away! - To Ski and Snowboard School, Cairngorm Mountain
For December, we're looking north to take advantage of some of Scotland's winter sports Read more »| 23 Nov 2010 -
Sightseeing
Go Away! To Aberdeen's Winter Festival
Ah Christmas. Chestnuts roasting on an open fire, Jack Frost indulging your foot fetish, and, eh, Lemmy screaming Killed By Death all up in ya face. Or so it... Read more »| 05 Nov 2010 -
Features
Tunisia: In a galaxy not so far away…
Armed with a pen, a camera, and a mild disdain for Euro house, our Music Editor walks the coasts of Tunisia… Read more »| 05 Nov 2010 -
Sightseeing
Halloween Experience @ The Edinburgh Dungeon
Forget about the horror stories from OK! (and, err, Austria), dungeons are fun! Or at least, the Edinburgh Dungeon is, with features designed to make the mos... Read more »| 18 Oct 2010 -
Sightseeing
Samhuinn Shenanigans
There are those at The Skinny (not the Fashion Ed it must be said) who long for the return of the tunic as everyday wear for all and sundry. Until that day a... Read more »| 08 Oct 2010
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Features
Journeys in Kurdistan
An intrepid Skinny wanderer ventures into Iraq Read more »| 09 Jun 2010 -
Sightseeing
Go away! To Portland
Portland, Oregon is a cultural hotbed right now. Here's the lowdown: the skinny, if you will Read more »| 09 Jun 2010 -
Features
Going Offroad for Father's Day
Want to find out if Daddy's a wimp or well 'ard? Get him to drive a 4x4 down a cliff Read more »| 01 Jun 2010 -
Sightseeing
Charles Jencks' Garden of Cosmic Speculation
If curiosity does indeed a pilgrim make then there can be no excuses for not taking the opportunity this Bank Holiday weekend to visit the intriguingl... Read more »| 28 Apr 2010 -
Festivals
Croatian Clubbing: Brighter Than White
Forget the White Isle. Petrcane evokes the true Mediterranean party spirit without ruining your budget. Read more »| 27 Aug 2009 -
Features
Get Me Away From Here...
Certain parts of Scotland (cough, Edinburgh, cough) throng almost unbearably with bodies in the summer- escape the madness with a bit of splendid isolation... Read more »| 26 Aug 2009 -
Festivals
The Road to Belladrum
Few festivals are in such scenic locations as Belladrum Tartan Heart, which has been described as 'camping in the woods, with bands.' Dylan Reed suggests you make a trip of it Read more »| 01 Aug 2009 -
Sightseeing
Tennis, Travel, and Making Memories
I once shared a tiny shack on the northwest coast with one lumpy bed, one saucepan, one fork and one million woodlice with one grumpy compadre some years ba... Read more »| 02 Jul 2009 -
Features
Norway: Fjord Sierra
Norway has some of the most incredible scenery in the world, and it's really close. Think about it. Read more »| 25 Jun 2009