Scarlet New Year's Ahoy! Bears & Gay Collective Caribbean Cruise Ditch the frosty weather at home and join us on board Virgin Voyages Scarlet Lady for a 5-night getaway where we will dial in the New Year in style! We sail from Miami (with our host hotel in Fort Lauderdale the night before the cruise) to the winter warm-weather destination of Cozumel (Playa de Carmen), Mexico and also the incredible Beach Club at Bimini, Bahamas. There is no better way to ring out the antique year and bring in the New Year then with your best Bear & Gay Cruise buddies and Virgin Voyages. Arriving early and departing behind from Mexico - and with a day and sunset spent at The Beach Club at Bimini - youll have plenty of time to ramp up the adventure and wind down to chill while seeing each port from every sun and moonlit angle. Sail the Virgin way, where every moment is designed for ultimate indulgence, freedom, and adventure!
The Gay-ish Alternative to All-Gay Cruises Gay groups on mainstream cruises are quite alternative from full-ship gay cruises. Instead of taking over a whole ship, homosexual group
With many of our usual pastimes affected by Coronavirus restrictions, people across the country have been conclusion solace in nature to help them through these challenging times.
Students and staff from some of our outdoor-related courses explain why they feel being in nature and looking after our environment is vital for both our physical and mental wellbeing.
Dr Raeanne Miller &#; Postdoctoral Explore Associate at the Scottish Association for Marine Science UHI
“This is where we live!” exclaimed a seal friend and colleague many years ago, expressing the joy of living and working in a lovely place, with endless opportunities to run in the hills, swim in the sea, cycle anywhere and everywhere, and pursue many other outdoor activities. It is a saying that stuck with me, shouted from the top of a mountain climbed after work or shivered between shaking teeth after a butter-smooth swim in the sea on a sparkling winter day.
Like many environmental scientists, I love to be outdoors (even when it’s wet). I could say that this is because I can spot in nature the very principles that I examination in my work or that because of my training I see greater detail in the plants
Last month, we finally embarked on a trip to the Outer Hebrides &#; a very unintentionally overlooked area of Scotland for us.
I was particularly delighted to see the epic beaches of Harris, along with iconic historical sites such as the Callanish Stones and the Gearrannan blackhouse village on Lewis. It&#;s also one of the few islands in Scotland that needs more than a couple of days, which meant scheduling more than a typical weekend trip. In a year where travelling abroad is difficult, risky and expensive, it seemed fancy the perfect opportunity to finally stick our toes firmly into the sand of Lewis & Harris.
Despite packing a lot into our few days there, I wanted to contain a more relaxed trip than we usually uncover ourselves on, which led to me booking a B&B just about the furthest out into the middle of nowhere as we could possibly be. In fact, our host joked that we were beyond the middle of nowhere &#; we were at the end of nowhere!
For our first nighttime, however, we stationed ourselves in the main town of Stornoway, providing a great base to obtain down to Harris before we plonked ourselves hours away from anywhere.
Yes &#; hours. Lewis & Harris is
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Tuesday afternoon – and it’s wet and horrible in Stornoway. A thoroughly dreich day. We love talking about the weather, us Hebrideans, and it’s been pretty foul since Sunday.
Not Saturday, though. Saturday was lovely. In fact, Saturday was incredible. On Saturday, rainbows kept springing up all over the island. And it was so, so perfect – because Saturday saw the first ever LGBT Pride celebration take place in the Outer Hebrides.
More than people of all ages took part and I felt so proud of every single one of them.
Proud of the organisers, who had the boldness and bravery to organise the parade in the first place – even though they thought only a couple of dozen people would turn up.
Proud of Ewan James Armstrong, who flew the flag in full drag as The Duchess, striding purposefully through the Narrows in a corset, garter and auburn wig. He was 6ft 7in tall in his heels and a bit of a pied piper, as far as the young people were concerned.
I was very proud of the many young people who took part, who had seized an opportunity to demand real inclusion and to say “no” to judgement, intolerance and hate.
As an adult committed in Scouting, I was particularly proud of the