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North Berwick

An Evening Visit to North Berwick

April 8, 2022 By Katie MacLeod 2 Comments

You immediately know when you’re approaching North Berwick. It would be impossible to miss North Berwick Law, a dome of volcanic rock that looks oddly out of place among the neat rolling fields and bales of hay that make up…

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Travel Plans and Dreams for 2022

January 10, 2022 By Katie MacLeod 6 Comments

“Travel… shakes you out of the steady medium of your everyday routine and creates room for highs and lows, for intense new flavours and surprising sights, for experiences that are unpredictable and vivid and extraordinary.” After two years of living…

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2021: The Year in Review on Stories My Suitcase Could Tell

December 31, 2021 By Katie MacLeod 2 Comments

Well, here we are, at the end of another pandemic year. For me, 2021 has felt both long and short, confined and freeing; better than 2020, but still far from normal. In my first blog post of the year, I…

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Celebrating 10 Years of Stories My Suitcase Could Tell

November 30, 2021 By Katie MacLeod 6 Comments

A decade of writing. A whole decade! Last week marked 10 years of Stories My Suitcase Could Tell: 10 years of writing, taking photos, editing blog posts, managing social media, trying (and often failing and learning the hard way) to…

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How to Experience Gaelic in the Outer Hebrides

September 20, 2021 By Katie MacLeod 16 Comments

When you think of Scotland’s Outer Hebrides, you might think of beautiful beaches, Harris Tweed, or gin distilleries. But what makes visiting the Outer Hebrides truly unique is the Gaelic culture and language, giving the islands an identity which offers…

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Appalachian Trail New Jersey

Notes on Adventure Travel, and Reconnecting with Nature

May 19, 2021 By Katie MacLeod Leave a Comment

Sharp peaks, gleaming glacial lakes, trees that reach into the sky: on Instagram, all the splendour of nature is laid out before you in neat little squares, a social media patchwork of the appeal of adventure travel. Even within my…

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