Mike MacEacheran

Edinburgh

Travel Journalist at Freelance

Travel journalist: BBC, Nat Geo, Times, Telegraph, Guardian, FT, CN Traveller, Lonely Planet, Indy, WaPo, T&L, Wanderlust, Afar, WSJ, Bloomberg, GEO, Which?

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Iceland road trip: itineraries, budget, and tips

1 week ago | kayak.com | Mike MacEacheran

Overrun with superlative mountain passes, epic coastal highways, and ring roads looping through lava fields and beneath leviathan glaciers, Iceland is a road trip sensation. But driving around the country does not need to give you the chills: KAYAK’s guide will help you get your Iceland road trip right the first time. The key information for your road trip in the UKTen days in Iceland is guaranteed to leave you speechless.
a walk through 200 years of history in County Durham

1 week ago | msn.com | Mike MacEacheran

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‘The railway that got the world on track’: a walk through 200 years of history in County Durham

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Mike MacEacheran

It was as strange a sight as you could stumble upon in the English countryside. As a muggy summer’s day began outside Shildon, Durham – rain threatening, bees drowsy in the hedgerows – I found myself standing on an embankment, surveying two rows of colossal stone teeth jutting through the earth. It looked as if someone had buried a sleeping giant.
Why Now Is the Time to Make a Scottish Whiskey Pilgrimage

2 weeks ago | cntraveler.com | Mike MacEacheran

All products and listings featured on Condé Nast Traveler are independently selected by our editors. However, we may receive compensation from retailers and/or from purchases of products through these links. The lonely views of distillery stacks—undercut by peatlands, circled by barley fields burning gold—are ever-present. These chimneys, once raw with fire, are often visible from afar on a trip through Scotland, and, like sentinels, have watched over craftsmanship for centuries.
Why Now Is the Time to Make a Scottish Whiskey Pilgrimage

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Mike MacEacheran

1 day agoYour iPhone’s Calculator Has a Hidden Tool That Makes Travel, Shopping, and Cooking Way SmarterOnce I found this clever trick, I was a total convert. Every once in a while as I'm boarding a flight, wandering an unfamiliar city, or trying to figure out if a bottle of single malt is the bargain of a lifetime or costs more than my student loan, I think back to how I handled such matters in the …2 days agoI've Tried Hundreds of Scotch Whiskies.
The 9 best things to do in Inverness

2 weeks ago | cntraveller.com | Mike MacEacheran

All products are independently selected by our editors. If you buy something, we may earn an affiliate commission. Inverness doesn’t do things by half. This is a city proud of the dreamiest castle, the bloodiest battlefield, the most fanciful monster and show-stopper hotels that haunt the imagination — its speciality is providing moments you’ll never forget.
The Alps is my all-time favourite summer holiday. Here’s where to stay

3 weeks ago | thetimes.com | Mike MacEacheran

Everybody has a favourite place for a summer holiday but it’s not in the nature of a travel writer to be so partisan. Well, OK, maybe I’ll spill the beans just this once. My ideal choice is the Alps, even if it’s a more typical go-to for a goggle tan rather than full body bronze. I visit at least half a dozen times a year, having married an actual Heidi from Herisau in Switzerland.
16 of the best family adventure holidays

3 weeks ago | thetimes.com | Mike MacEacheran |Orla Thomas

All-inclusives and easy beach holidays are all well and good, but sometimes everyone needs a proper adventure. The kind of memory-making trip that will make children gasp and squeal, and give parents moments to cherish forever. A trip involving jaw-dropping landscapes and cultures or creatures to learn about and admire. If you’re into wildlife, then Kenya, Borneo or Costa Rica might be the answer. For unforgettable scenery, how about a US national park, Jordan, or Canada?
‘The walk is shot through with melancholy and romance’: a new trail to the north face of the Eiger

3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Mike MacEacheran

A few years ago, my dad told me of a mountain where I could easily sense another world. “There is a special air and light,” he had said, vaguely. “You just have to walk close to it to feel and see it. Stand in one place and just look up.”The mountain on my dad’s mind that day was the Eiger, Switzerland’s 3,970-metre ogre of limestone and ice.
An expert’s guide to Scotland’s whiskey distilleries and why now is the time to make the pilgrimage

4 weeks ago | cntraveller.com | Mike MacEacheran

The lonely views of distillery stacks – undercut by peatlands, circled by barley fields burning gold – are ever-present. These chimneys, once raw with fire, are often visible from afar on a trip through Scotland, and, like sentinels, have watched over craftsmanship for centuries. Below, in the grainy light of still houses and steadings, maltsters, coopers and coppersmiths sustain tradition, keeping the stories and glories of single malt whisky alive.