Rhoda Meek: Sustainable tourism is more than bikes, buses and beautiful holiday homes
HERE in the islands, the swallows are back, the grass is growing and the wildflowers aren’t far off...
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Rhoda Meek is a digital consultant and entrepreneur from the Isle of Tiree. As well as running a croft, Tiree Tea and Isle Develop CIC, she chairs the Tiree Community Development Trust and Tiree Broadband. A native Gaelic speaker, Rhoda is passionate about Highland and Island culture, crofting and community.
Rhoda Meek is a digital consultant and entrepreneur from the Isle of Tiree. As well as running a croft, Tiree Tea and Isle Develop CIC, she chairs the Tiree Community Development Trust and Tiree Broadband. A native Gaelic speaker, Rhoda is passionate about Highland and Island culture, crofting and community.
HERE in the islands, the swallows are back, the grass is growing and the wildflowers aren’t far off...
MY perfect escape isn’t a Scottish island. It’s a warm European city. Lying on a balcony and sunning myself like a lizard while deciding between good coffee or good wine is, frankly, heaven.
FOR those looking at rural Scotland through the prism of their idyllic escape, the housing crisis is an abstract concept – a mild irritation when the hotel is only able to offer a limited number of bookings or the coffee shop owner is running 10 orders behind because they are short-staffed.
IF there is a positive spin to be found on the Greens’ contribution to the Scottish Government over the past couple of years, it’s that they have helped keep the Scottish islands firmly in the news cycle.
LIZ Truss was making waves last week – and her detractors have had enough. In one news segment, a frustrated
IF the Scottish Government was planning to burn down its support base in rural Scotland, it could not have executed it better over the last few years.
’TIS the season for politicians to clutch lambs. At least Humza Yousaf’s effort in Lewis on Friday was streets ahead of Liz Truss’s boarded-up church and ovine in the headlights. The Lewis lamb gave the appearance of grudging consent – although the mother might disagree – and there was no church in sight – open
Is it possible to get through an island holiday without annoying an islander, I hear you ask. It is possible to do things which significantly reduce the chances of upsetting people.
‘YOU’RE so brave to live somewhere like this,” she intoned, as I sat speechless in front of the house.
‘YOU’RE as good as any man,” I was once told, after I had acquitted myself well at moving stones.
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