Mike MacEacheran

A good day in the mountains and a great one as a travel writer #Adelboden

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Silvesterklaus: the absurd New Year’s tradition nowhere else can match. 👺

Happy New Year from #Appenzellerland everyone 🇨🇭

@myswitzerland.bsky.social #Switzerland

Swisstwixmas: the best way to end the year 🇨🇭🎿

Christmas party for one this afternoon, just me and my sticky toffee pud. But, hey, what happens at a me party, stays at a me party... Merry Christmas all!

#freelancer #travel #meparty 🎉

It's been a wild ride in travel writing this year...

17 overseas trips, including 🇫🇴🇵🇪🇱🇹🇨🇦🇺🇸🇨🇭🇩🇪 🇦🇹🇫🇷🇳🇱
10 home trips 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

So, a heartfelt thanks to the PRs, tourist boards, writers & editors who continue to make it possible for me to have the world's best job. Merry Xmas everyone!🎄

It's 100% worth it. I travel every year from Edinburgh for it. Do it!

Tivoli is terrific at this time of year and if you can swing a free meal at Nimb then do it!

I like to moove it moove it: here's a story about An Uiseag 9th of Eileanmore and Banarach Ban of Achinreir, part of the world's only Highland cow ice cream herd, for my new road trip feature around sustainable #Argyll and the #Highlands for natgeo.com/travel #coosday #travel #Scotland

It's been a wild ride in travel writing this year...

17 overseas trips, including 🇫🇴🇵🇪🇱🇹🇨🇦🇺🇸🇨🇭🇩🇪 🇦🇹🇫🇷🇳🇱
10 home trips 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

So, a heartfelt thanks to the PRs, tourist boards, writers & editors who continue to make it possible for me to have the world's best job. Merry Xmas everyone!🎄

More Aguirre, the Wrath of God stuff from me before I completely lose the plot #Peru #Amazon

Thanks dude. You’re The Oracle, so you lead, I follow.

🚨 Sloth news! This three-toed mum and newborn held the same yoga pose for about an hour this morning. Another little bit of Amazon magic from life in the slow lane. 🦥

Jaw ready for this?

Picked up a rod, went fishing, used chicken as bait, hooked a piranha in seconds, may have shrieked a bit.

Mortimer & Whitehouse ain’t got nothing on me. 🎣

I’m now in the Amazon (the WiFi is better than at home in Scotland) and in 24hrs I’ve met a shamanistic healer, sampled psychoactive ayahuasca, done the rounds with a rainforest GP and gone to school. #Peru

The curious North American islands which still belong to France Our writer explores the French archipelago of St Pierre and Miquelon which sits off Newfoundland

St Pierre and Miquelon? I wasn’t exactly sure where it was either. So I went for The Telegraph and loved it (it’s off the coast of #Newfoundland, by the way).

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Europe’s most magical capital — that you’ve never heard of A new, direct flight is your ticket to tiny Torshavn and its enchanting landscapes of heart-stopping fjords, cinematic waterfalls and fortress-like islands

I went to the Faroe Islands for the first time for The Times. Unquestionably, it was the #travel highlight of the year (I wasn’t too happy about eating dried whale though). #travel #Faroes 🇫🇴

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Six of the best winter mountain breaks in Europe From the Arctic Circle to Slovenia’s Julian Alps, we pick scenic and soothing retreats to don snowshoes, ski empty pistes and tune into winter

Another one for The Guardian: writing about two sublime hideaways in the Alps for this winter ❄️ #France #Switzerland

www.theguardian.com/travel/2024/...

I was lucky enough to ride on the Royal Scotsman for GEO magazine and had the best train experience of my life. The story comes out next year, but I took this video which was viewed 80,000 times (on the other place). #Scotland #travel #train

The best ski areas in Austria this season Austria’s mix of beginner slopes, black runs and mountainside culture works for all — from fun-seeking families to hardcore off-pisters.

I’m a big fan of #Austria (give me a schnitzel and Stiegl and I’m in heaven), so it was a thrill to round-up all the best ski resorts for National Geographic Traveller 🎿

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Our fun-filled German holiday … to the new Peppa Pig theme park This new attraction in Günzburg, southern Bavaria, is a dream for children (and their parents), says Mike MacEacheran

I used every pork pun I could get my trotters on for this piece about a trip to the Peppa Pig theme park in #Germany for The Times. I was happy as a pig in shit, naturally. 🐷

www.thetimes.com/travel/desti...

The unknown story of Scotland's 'Stonehenge' Forgotten for centuries, Kilmartin Glen in Argyll is one of Britain's most important archaeological landscapes – but most people have never heard of it.

What else? There’s this on Scotland’s unknown Stonehenge for BBC Travel (and I’d really urge you to go). #Scotland #travel

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Tour de France: the new cycle route from Nantes to Mont-Saint-Michel La Régalante is a 170-mile cycle network linking historic villages, windmills and abbeys in less-visited parts of Brittany and the Atlantic Loire, with pitstops at lovely bars and B&Bs

I cycled 275km across #Brittany and #Normandy for The Guardian in this travel piece. I ate galettes, drank cider and got a ridiculously sore arse. #France #travel 🚴‍♂️

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What it's like to go on a moose safari in Maine's Great North Woods Maine’s Great North Woods is one of the best spots in the country to catch sight of the world’s largest deer species, making for a majestic wildlife safari.

Another one for National Geographic, but this time on joining a moose-calling safari in Maine’s Great North Woods. Moose have four stomachs, if you didn’t know. 🫎 #travel #Maine

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How to do the Orkney islands — as seen in The Outrun The Scottish islands are the true star of Saoirse Ronan’s critically acclaimed new film. Here’s how to explore their wild drama

Scotland is the ultimate #travel destination if you ask me, so this recent piece for The Times gave me a great opportunity to revisit my many trips to #Orkney #Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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The Swiss hotel cut off from the world for 12 hours a day While Switzerland is full of Alpine huts and hard-to-reach hotels, Alp Grüm is a mountain anomaly like no other.

Here’s the kind of story I love writing about. A piece for BBC Travel on a Shangri-La sort of hotel tucked away in #Switzerland

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What it's like to travel along the West Coast on a train One of the most beautiful train journeys in the US, the Coast Starlight’s route unspools along the Pacific Ocean from Los Angeles via Sacramento to Seattle. With miles of coastline, towering mountain ...

I’ve been up to loads in the last few months, so thought it a good idea to share some bits, bobs and #travel highlights.

First up, there’s this piece on travelling the length of #California by train for National Geographic 🚞

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Things are about to get really exciting now. Off for a week long misadventure in the Amazon. 🇵🇪

Things are about to get exciting.

Hullo, new world. I travel to lots of places and I write about them. I live in Edinburgh, I’m from Glasgow. I love mountains, adventures, records and beer. Let’s make friends 🤝