🛳️ More Than Words – Stage 15: Bonnie and Clyde 🛳️

From Viking boat‑hauling to wallabies in the Highlands, because Loch Lomond’s tourism strategy is apparently “confuse everyone, maximise revenue.”

Featuring:

🛶 Vikings dragging longships

💑 Honeymoon Island: medieval IKEA compatibility test

🦘 Wild wallabies … in Scotland

⛪️ Saints getting demoted

🎨 Turkey red dyeing: the Colonel’s secret recipe

📚 Tobias Smollett: 70‑foot monument, zero modern readers

⚓️ Clydebank: where Queen Mary launched the Queen Mary

✈️ Glaswegians foiling terrorists attacks

It’s travel podcasting with longships, marsupials, industrial collapse, and the Ryder Cup somehow making an appearance. Equal parts scenic, surreal, and shipyard tragedy.

⛵️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

🚉 Towns with two railway stations, because duplication = progress

🛁 Rob Roy’s outdoor shower

👻 The Drovers Inn: taxidermy greatest‑hits album, with bonus ghosts

💥 Cromwell’s redecorating tips

It’s bogs, ballads, and a suspicious number of railway stations — equal parts folklore, failed enterprise, and surreal comedy.

🏔️ 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 & Monty Python gorges

👯 Three Sisters (some assembly required)

😈 The Devil’s Staircase: hell of a climb, literally

🗺️ Two villages that are definitely the same place (Google Maps disagrees)

🐴 Loch Linnhe’s water horse: worst pony-trekking franchise ever

It’s travel with geological grandeur — equal parts stunning vistas, historical carnage, and cartographic chaos.

🏔️ 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 a world record

🏔️ Why climbing a “venomous” mountain is a good idea (It isn’t)

It’s travel with altitude — equal parts awe, exhaustion, and soggy triumph.

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 tin)

🐉 Nessie — still camera shy after all these years

🙏 Monks, myths, and moral ambiguity in scenic quantities

🚶‍♂️ The Jacobites: failing spectacularly since 1688

It’s legends, lochs and a little light uprising — think VisitScotland meets Black Mirror.

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 kings

🔥 A feud so petty it ended in arson by jackdaw

🥃 A whisky tasting that almost required a remortgage

🐿️ Red squirrels, oil rigs, and dolphins sharing the same postcode

😈 Devils in skirts

🎶 And a festival finale featuring Ed Sheeran, kilts, and falafels

It’s the Highlands meets holiday hangover — and somehow, it all makes sense.

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

🧙‍♀️ Scotland’s last witch trial (complete with DIY pony transformation)

🛠️ Thomas Telford, the man who looked at hills and said “nah, straight through”

🐺 Wolf Stones, Jurassic coal, and property developments named after swamp

💣 Tain Air Weapons Range — nature reserve by day, Call of Duty map by night

It’s golf, guilt, and Gaelic place-names you can’t pronounce without sounding drunk — all served with whisky, sarcasm, and a side of historical outrage.

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 wetter and much shorter

It’s shin trauma, children trying not to be kites, and Victorian cardio hell, all wrapped in rain.