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  1. Which of us has not also felt that pang of frustration when our £3 million country house with tennis court, stables and helipad finds itself next door to caravans?

    It's heartening to see that the new teutonic masters of Der Telegraf have not lost their nose for the newspaper's core market: couples called Rupert & Jemima who aspire to own an #Aga and a paddock, and meanwhile vicariously suffer the pain of injury to someone else's Aga home.

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    #Torygraph #Travellers

  2. India Safaris @indiasafaristrends.wordpress.com@indiasafaristrends.wordpress.com ·

    Inside India’s Most Exceptional Luxury Tiger Safaris

    The forest goes quiet. A langur calls from the canopy, dry leaves shift beneath unseen feet, and then between sal trees, a flash of orange and black appears. For a few breathless seconds, India’s tiger country belongs entirely to you. India’s Luxury Tiger Safari Is a Different Kind of Wild For travellers accustomed to the sweeping savannahs of Kenya, Tanzania or South Africa, India offers a very different safari rhythm. Here, the landscape is denser and more intimate. A game drive […]

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  3. India Safaris @indiasafaristrends.wordpress.com@indiasafaristrends.wordpress.com ·

    India Safari Holiday Tours: A Complete Guide to India’s Wild Side

    India's wildlife is not the wide-open savannah of Africa, and that is exactly what makes it so fascinating. Here, a safari can take you through sal forests, dry grasslands, bamboo thickets and wetlands where a tiger may appear without warning. For travellers planning an India safari holiday, the experience is about far more than spotting a Bengal tiger. It can include leopards, sloth bears, wild dogs, crocodiles, hundreds of bird species and the landscapes and communities that surround […]

    indiasafaristrends.wordpress.c

  4. Where is the Shearer of Glenshee buried?

    Recorded in 1969: Belle Stewart tells the tale of the burial of “the Shearer of Glenshee” – one of many recordings of stories & songs by Belle Stewart on the Tobar an Dualchais / Kist o Riches website

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    tobarandualchais.co.uk/track/3

    #Scottish #literature #travellers #folklore #folksong

  5. Belle Stewart (1906–1997) – singer, storyteller, tradition-bearer – was born #OTD, 18 July, in a bow tent on the banks of the Tay at Caputh, near Blairgowrie. She ranks alongside Jeannie Robertson in the roll of the finest Scots ballad-singers.

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    youtube.com/watch?v=v0sMwlevTMU

    #Scottish #literature #travellers #folklore #folksong

  6. The Tinker Experiment was a UK government policy (1940-1980) that forcibly settled Scottish Gypsy Travellers into substandard housing. No electricity until 2010.

    Children taken from families. The Church of Scotland was complicit. In 2025, Scotland finally said sorry — but victims want reparations, not just words.

    thomaster.substack.com/p/the-t

    #Travellers #Scotland #Gypsy #Government #Coverup #Reparations #Accountability