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10 of the best hostels and lodges … that you have to hike to

Edit The Guardian 25 Apr 2016
These out of the way retreats can only be reached on foot – but the reward for your efforts is a warm welcome and a chance to rest weary legs in spectacular surroundings ... Rifugio Lagazuoi ... Glen Affric Youth Hostel ... It’s a long and winding 13km from the nearest road to reach the Glen Affric Youth Hostel ... Access to the trailhead at Glen Affric car park is available by bus from Inverness three times a week in the summer months (July-Sept) ... ....

25th anniversary bid to extend Glen Affric woodlands towards Scotland’s west coast

Edit Pressat 15 Apr 2016
A quarter century of volunteering conservation action in the Highlands is being marked by Trees for Life this month, with a new initiative aiming to expand Scotland's Caledonian Forest from Glen Affric towards the west coast ... “Back to Our Roots is an important new phase of our work in partnership with Forest Enterprise Scotland in Glen Affric....

Beaver reintroduction a golden opportunity for Scotland

Edit Pressat 21 Mar 2016
Monday 21 March, 2016 ... “Allowing this native species to return would offer Scotland huge benefits ... As part of its restoration of the Caledonian Forest in the Highlands (see www.treesforlife.org.uk), Trees for Life has been expanding stands of aspen in key areas – particularly at its Dundreggan Conservation Estate near Loch Ness and around Loch Beinn a'Mheadhoin in Glen Affric – to create better habitats for beavers in the future ... Ends....

Inside Pippa Middleton's luxury Highland love nest

Edit The Daily Mail 01 Feb 2016
Pippa Middleton, 32, is set to enjoy the luxury of Affric Lodge - a mansion in the Scottish Highlands, belonging to her boyfriend James Matthews' family - as it reopens following renovation ... ....

Comment: ISIL jihadi 'speaks more Standard British English than Jihadi John' (University of Reading)

Edit Public Technologies 25 Jan 2016
(Source. University of Reading). Release Date 04 January 2016. Following publication of a new jihadi video features an ISIL/Daesh militant with a 'British accent', please see comment below from a University of Reading linguistics expert ... He also has a rather strongly affricated 't' as the end of some words like 'state' - almost an 's' after the final 't' - but not in all cases ... Original Document ... (noodl. 31811284) ....

What’s new in your favourite UK holiday spots

Edit The Guardian 08 Aug 2015
What with electric bicycles, giant underground zipwires and inland surfing there’s a whole lot of new outdoor adventures to be had in the UK’s holiday hotspots, even if it’s pouring. Scotland’s Highlands and islands. See and do. For a change from Munro bagging, the new Affric Kintail Way (affrickintailway.com) runs 44 miles from Drumnadrochit on Loch Ness through Glen Affric to the west coast at Morvich, in Kintail ... Facebook Twitter ... ....

History event at Fort George to close busy period

Edit BBC News 07 Aug 2015
7 August 2015. From the section Highlands & Islands ... Hundreds of competitors watched by thousands of spectators have been competing in the World Orienteering Championships and the Scottish 6 Days Orienteering event in and around Nairn, Forres and Glen Affric ... ....

Gueorgiou and Bobach win Long Distance at WOC 2015. (Orienteering Australia)

Edit Public Technologies 07 Aug 2015
(Source. Orienteering Australia). Ida Bobach ran a superb race to take gold in the Long race in Glen Affric today, with a winning margin of well over two minutes - Denmark's fourth gold medal of the week. Mari Fasting of Norway took silver, her first individual World Championship medal, while last year's champion Svetlana Mironova of Russia took bronze ... Bryan had a steady run, not having any red controls ... August 8, 2015. distributed by....

WOC Relay- Darnaway Castle (Orienteering Australia)

Edit Public Technologies 06 Aug 2015
(Source. Orienteering Australia). Yesterday at the same arena as the middle distance on Tuesday the WOC relay's were held with the start for both races being right in front of Darnaway Castle ... So the final event at this WOC will be the Long Distance event at Glen Affric ... Glen Affric is classic Scottish orienteering terrain, and hosted the Long race the last time the World Championships were in Scotland in 1999 ... Australian runners are....

Orienteering elite heading north

Edit BBC News 31 Jul 2015
31 July 2015. From the section Highlands & Islands. The championships will be staged over moorland and forests as well as in local towns. Thousands of people are heading for the Highlands for the start of the World Orienteering Championships ... The races get under way with a sprint qualification in Forres on Friday evening. Races are being held in the wilds of Glen Affric as well as at Darnaway Castle in Moray ... What is orienteering? ... ....

WOC 2015 Inverness, Scotland- Starts Friday (Orienteering Australia)

Edit Public Technologies 29 Jul 2015
(Source. Orienteering Australia). WOC 2015 Inverness, Scotland. Preamble. The 2015 World Orienteering Championships get underway on Friday evening (31st July) and conclude the following Friday (7th August) ... Also in the women's team we have two sisters, Krystal and Laurina Neumann making their WOC debuts. Womens Team ... Coaches ... The Long Distance will take place in Glen Affric, by common consent the finest of all of Scotland's glens (valleys)....

Roads to close for World Orienteering Championships

Edit BBC News 17 Jul 2015
17 July 2015. From the section Highlands & Islands. Thousands of people are expected to attend the orienteering events. Advance warning has been given of roads to be closed for two major sports events taking place in the Highlands and Moray. The World Orienteering Championship's and orienteering's Scottish Six Days event will run at the same time from 31 July to 8 August ... Other elements of the events will be staged in Glen Affric ... ....

Do you sound gay? What our voices tell us – and what they don’t

Edit The Guardian 17 Jul 2015
As compliments go, I’ve had better. “You don’t seem gay.” The smile, with eyebrows raised in approval, tells me it’s supposed to be a compliment, and once again I’m baffled ... The notion you would be pleased to find this out reveals an unthinking prejudice ... The findings include – concentrate, because this is the science bit – an affrication of t and d (a little bit of a hiss at the end), the dentalisation of s, z and n ... First ... Second ... Third....
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