This was my first time spending a night in Peanmeanach bothy on the Ardnish peninsula, a private, not-for-profit bothy at the end of one of the most beautiful walks I’ve ever done 🥾 It’s about three and a half miles of rugged path from the road, but it felt more remote than that. The area has a fascinating history of abandoned settlements and it feels a little post-apocalyptic. After arriving and settling in, I headed straight back out along the coast to look for a cave I’d read about in anothe

Tarland Quine Shona Donaldson performing the Bothy Ballad 'The Scranky Black Fermer' during a charity concert in the Music Hall, Aberdeen earlier this year. Bothy ballads refers to the traditional songs composed about farmworkers and their lives in the northeast of Scotland during the nineteenth century. Shona became the first female winner of the Bothy Ballads Champion of Champions competition held at Elgin in 2016. | Aberdeenshire Scotland

‘Bothy’ comes from the Gaelic word “bothan” meaning hut. The MBA (mountain bothy association) describe bothies as: “A simple shelter in remote country for the use and benefit of all those who love being in wild and lonely places” Tomorrow night at 8pm GMT Part 1 of a 20 minute “Bothy Living” virtual tour will be available to watch for free, featuring interviews from Juls Stodel who has visited every MBA bothy in the UK, and Alan Gillies who had submitted every Munro in Scotland! Music is ‘Fade’