Smartify: Audio Collection

"...there's such a community there, that whole place is gorgeous."

"...to be there on a day or a morning when the waders are up singing,when greenshank and golden plover and dunlin are singing around you...there's very few other places in Britain or the world, even, that I'm as happy."

"As I was walking across the park...I realised it was the Northern Lights. That was my first day, my first night, in Thurso...this is where I was meant to come. This is it."

"...I have very mixed feelings whenever I go back there...I have witnessed it myself declining over the years, where my 94 year old aunt is the last native Gaelic speaker of that little village..."

"...it's a place that I have a lot of happy and sad associations, my parents were both elders in that church. It's where I grew up, it's at the foot of the Cairngorms. It's a very beautiful part of the world."

"...it tells so many stories just in its own right."

"...it's very much about that outward looking attitude that Orcadians have...it's that openness that really for me sums up what Orkney is about."

"...more than any time since I've been alive, we need people who have this wisdom of the land and sea. We need people who have this knowledge to pass it on."

Discover the Spirit of the Highlands and Islands through this audio story which features heart-warming tales of hospitality and the kindness of strangers

In this brief recording, learn about the history of the Highland Clearances in Sutherland and its continuing effect on the region and the Highlands of today.