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.

Episode 7 of More Than Words: “I’ve Got A99 Problems (But a Broch Ain’t One)”

Because nothing screams “holiday vibes” like whirlpools, feral cows, and Viking soap operas.

Featuring:



🌪️ The firth of froth


🐄 Feral cattle


🎶 The original “Islands in the Stream”


📸 John o’ Groats: signpost selfies, shattered illusions


🏰 Bucholie Castle: visitors not welcome


🪞 Neolithic eyebrow routines


🚂 A railway only slightly longer than its train


👻 Ghosting: 15th century style


🐟 Fishy Wall Street

It’s history, myth, and sarcastic sightseeing along the Caithness coast.

Episode 6 of More Than Words is here!

Featuring:

🪨 Castle Bloody — less massacre, more Neolithic IKEA

🗿 Giants chucking monoliths at each other

🌉Churchill’s Gap Years

🏰 A laird who demolished a village for a better view

⛪ A chapel built from corned beef tins and an exhaust pipe

⛳ Britain’s most northerly crazy golf course (bring an anorak)

🐎 Children ploughing sand and dressed as Clydesdales

It’s history, trivia, and travel chatter with a tailwind of sarcasm.

Episode 5 is here! ... “Things Can Only Get Wetter.”

Because nothing says “travel podcast” like kelp, 18th century cryptocurrency, and a boiling-water tap with a vendetta.

Featuring:

🔥 Child-proof tech that isn’t middle-aged-man-proof

🐟 Herring history (because nothing screams drama like fish logistics)

🍘 Seaweed — the Bitcoin of the 18th century

🧀 Monks Bear Grylls would salute, assuming he could find them

🦸‍♀️ Ecclesiastical super heroes

🐑 Sheep that prefer Itsu

It’s history, it’s trivia, it’s travel, all soaked in sarcasm.

It's Episode 4 of More Than Words — the podcast where I claim to be traversing Britain, but in reality I’m just sweating on a spin bike.

This week we’re still at sea, so expect:

• Fair Isle’s knitwear empire
• North Ronaldsay’s seaweed‑eating sheep
• Enough lighthouses to keep the Stevenson family in royalties for generations
• Spanish shipwrecks, and
• A golf ball incident that nearly ended this podcast before it even began.

Think National Geographic meets Casualty...

Episode 3 of More Than Words!

This week we sail from Shetland to Orkney ... expect ferries, ponies, giants, Norse feminism, knitwear, and the occasional 7th‑century gang tag.

Think history, humour, and a healthy dose of sarcasm — basically Bill Bryson, if he’d stayed for that sixth pint.

OK, it’s time for the thing absolutely nobody asked for - Episode 2 of my "More Than Words" virtual travelogue.

There'll be history, myth, and place names that make 12-year-olds giggle.

You can also expect:

• Norse parliaments
• Oil-fuelled boomtowns
• Fire festivals,
• A Viking-themed Shetland spinoff

• Rabbits guarding WWII gun batteries

Welcome to Episode 1 of More Than Words!

Expect:

• Towns that sound like IKEA shelving units,
• The Shetland Space Centre,
• Ghostly architects,
• Viking boats, and
• Britain’s most overachieving bus stop