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Katie Featherstone (Scotland/Iceland)

@featherytravels.bsky.social

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Hiking/travel writer ◦ Inner Hebrides, Loch Lomond & the Trossachs, Iceland ◦ living in Port Ellen, Islay. Books in this link ⬇️ linktr.ee/katiefeatherstone

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Katie Featherstone (Scotland/Iceland) @featherytravels.bsky.social · 2d

1/2 Nine months pregnant feels like an odd time to start promoting something, but the #Cicerone walking guidebook @writesofways.bsky.social and I wrote for the #SmallIsles has just been published. This little book took a long time to put together and I'm really proud of it.

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Katie Featherstone (Scotland/Iceland) @featherytravels.bsky.social · 15h

Well, it was actually just a reference to the review on one of your very old blog posts (from 2011, I think) that I saw. It was an excellent tent 🙂

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Katie Featherstone (Scotland/Iceland) @featherytravels.bsky.social · 17h

...tent from aged 11 or so (in the early 2000s) up to c.2015. It had already had some heavy use as a sea kayaking tent before I inherited it, and I used it for about 5 months in South America as well as many shorter trips . It would have been a solid recommendation!

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Katie Featherstone (Scotland/Iceland) @featherytravels.bsky.social · 17h

@christownsend.bsky.social - I was looking online for any information related to a tent I own called The Vango Zephyr Solo and found that you recommended it in your 1984 'The Backpacker’s Guide'. I wanted to let you know that, while I do not use it regularly any more, it was my main and only...

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Katie Featherstone (Scotland/Iceland) @featherytravels.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you!

Katie Featherstone (Scotland/Iceland) @featherytravels.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, thanks so much Neil. Yes, hopefully she'll be on her way before *too* long.

Katie Featherstone (Scotland/Iceland) @featherytravels.bsky.social · 2d

2/2 Thank you so much to the people who made it possible, particularly those in the Small Isles themselves for hosting us for the research and answering so many questions.

Available here: www.cicerone.co.uk/walking-rum-...

#Scotland #walking #Hebrides #InnerHebrides #ScottishIslands #published

Walking Guidebook | Rum & Small Isles | Rum, Eigg, Muck & Canna

Discover the 'hidden gems' of the Hebrides with 25 routes for adventurous walkers from 2-25 miles with OS maps and GPX downloads.

www.cicerone.co.uk

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Katie Featherstone (Scotland/Iceland) @featherytravels.bsky.social · 2d

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Katie Featherstone (Scotland/Iceland) @featherytravels.bsky.social · 13d

Oh brilliant. I hope you have an amazing time!

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JAG says it’s legal, but stupid. @jagsaysstupid.bsky.social · 14d

From my wife this morning.

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Katie Featherstone (Scotland/Iceland) @featherytravels.bsky.social · 14d

Thank you. I hope it's useful to you. It's a general travel guide rather than hiking specific, but there's a lot of information in there.

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Katie Featherstone (Scotland/Iceland) @featherytravels.bsky.social · 14d

Last year I spent a lot of time updating @frommers.com guidebook to #Iceland, which has just come out. Many, many thanks to my Icelandic friends who answered my random questions as they arose - I could not have done it without you.

#TravelWriting

Inner book insert showing turf church and 'by Katie Featherstone'

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Katie Featherstone (Scotland/Iceland) @featherytravels.bsky.social · Aug 26

Crinan in Knapdale yesterday.

#Argyll #Scotland

red and white lighthouse by canal and harbour on sunny day

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Katie Featherstone (Scotland/Iceland) @featherytravels.bsky.social · Aug 6

My lovely #Cicerone guidebook to #walking in the Small Isles, co-authored with Peter Edwards, is available to pre-order!

www.cicerone.co.uk/walking-rum-...

#Scotland #Hebrides #InnerHebrides #hiking

Walking Guidebook | Rum & Small Isles | Rum, Eigg, Muck & Canna

Discover the 'hidden gems' of the Hebrides with 25 routes for adventurous walkers from 2-25 miles with OS maps and GPX downloads.

www.cicerone.co.uk

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Katie Featherstone (Scotland/Iceland) @featherytravels.bsky.social · Jul 22

I'm a fan of these little guys.

#Islay

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Katie Featherstone (Scotland/Iceland) @featherytravels.bsky.social · Jul 10

Thankfully visits from the building inspector are rare in Port Ellen.

Katie Featherstone (Scotland/Iceland) @featherytravels.bsky.social · Jul 10

Yes, we're building an upwards extension to accommodate my sudden growth spurt.

Katie Featherstone (Scotland/Iceland) @featherytravels.bsky.social · Jul 10

Oh, thank you Simon. I'm quadruple that size already 😅

Katie Featherstone (Scotland/Iceland) @featherytravels.bsky.social · Jul 10

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Sarah May @sarahmay1.bsky.social · Jul 10

Folks in Palestine and those who support them, this group offers emergency phone credit to displaced people, it's been going many years but just started working in Palestine last month. Runs through Facebook.
It's also another way to help for those of us looking to support

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Katie Featherstone (Scotland/Iceland) @featherytravels.bsky.social · Jul 8

I look forward to reading the results of this new and exciting literary direction for you.

Katie Featherstone (Scotland/Iceland) @featherytravels.bsky.social · Jul 7

Yes, I saw that. I see two options here: you could either buy it and organise the competing championship, or you can buy it and sue rightmove for false advertising - perhaps recouping some of your costs to buy a boat/helicopter.

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Katie Featherstone (Scotland/Iceland) @featherytravels.bsky.social · Jul 7

Being somewhat pedantic, Insh is not the host, although I'm sure it also has plenty of skimmable slate.

Katie Featherstone (Scotland/Iceland) @featherytravels.bsky.social · Jul 7

Sanday, #Orkney, on a very beautiful day.

#Scotland

a tombolo with sand dunes and two beaches

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Katie Featherstone (Scotland/Iceland) @featherytravels.bsky.social · Jul 5

The Broch of Borwick, #Orkney.

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Birna Anna Björnsdóttir @birnaanna.bsky.social · Jun 23

The arctic tern flies from Iceland to Antarctica and back every year. It finds its same nesting ground each time. It can become 30 years old so in its lifetime, an arctic tern flies = from the earth to the moon three times. A tern weighs 120 grams, less than a small can of soda.

Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · Jun 22

Tell me something cool you’ve learned about nature.

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Katie Featherstone (Scotland/Iceland) @featherytravels.bsky.social · Jun 13

A few days along the coast of Wester Ross this week.

(have a look at @emmgibbs.bsky.social North Highlands guidebook if you are heading that way this summer)

#WesterRoss #ScottishHighlands #Scotland

headland with sandy beaches and a few houses

pink sandy beach with grass and distant mountains

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