Smartify: Audio Collection
What does the 'spirit' of the Highlands and Islands mean to you? Here, listen and discover the 'spirit' of the Highlands and Islands through the eyes of the people who know it best in this series of interviews carried out by the brilliant team at Smartify.
Favourite Places: The Spey at Fochabers
"...it's just the most beautiful sight to be driving alongside this river...I'm in love with it...it just makes me feel beautiful."
Favourite Places: Colonsay
"It was like being on a tropical island without the palm trees."
Favourite Places: Nigg Beach to Shandwick
"...there's something really powerful. It's the view, it's the sense of it...you'll be pretty stunned, I can assure you!"
Favourite Places: Luskentyre Beach
"...you just need to be there to experience it...it's just magic, I can't even put it into words."
Tattie Picking
Join Susan Conti as she recounts fond memories at work during the Tattie Holidays in Forres - where children were given a holiday from school to help in the annual potato harvest.
Favourite Places: Loch Ness
"...it's all connected to family history research in one way, this walking in your ancestor's footsteps..."
Favourite Places: Liathach
"...you really get a sense of the North Highlands."
In Focus - Bute Community Forest
"you don't plant trees for yourself, you plant them for your children."
Favourite Places: Lochindorb
"I always like to imagine what it would have been like in his time. I would give anything to be able to go back there!"
Favourite Places: Shell Beach, Muck
Discover the locally adored Shell Beach, on the island of Muck, through the eyes of author Marg Greenwood.
