From Issue Two of Hidden Scotland Magazine

Roads Less Travelled

Memories of the BBC Scotland series Roads Less Travelled.

Words by Cameron Mcneish · Photographs by Murray Orr

Printed in Issue Two of Hidden Scotland Magazine, Spring and Summer 2021.

For a number of years I made an occasional television series for BBC Scotland called Roads Less Travelled, a passing nod to the American poet Robert Frost who once wrote, “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by...”

My less travelled roads took me and my little red campervan all around Scotland discovering extraordinary places and meeting a host of fascinating people, each with their own unique stories to tell. Every journey was a voyage of discovery but what has remained in my memory is how amazingly diverse Scotland is. Diverse in culture, diverse in history and, in particular, diverse in landscape.

Compare, if you will, the rolling hills of the Borders with the Torridonian giants of Wester Ross, or the high and rounded Arctic slopes of the Cairngorms with the jagged and pointed ridges of the Skye Cuillin. Or how about the Flow Country of Sutherland and Caithness, or the marram-grass sand dunes of the Western Isles, or the tumbled hills and rocky bluffs of the Trossachs? And bear in mind that you can travel between these extremes of landscape in less than a day.