Scottish Islands Explorer

22/09/2025

As publishers, Intermedia Services (Stornoway) Ltd have decided that it’s no longer possible for us to continue with producing SIE after the October-November edition which is just now appearing in our subscribers mailboxes.

We are appealing on Facebook to see if there is anyone with the skills and drive to take it over, maybe as an individual project, which could see someone have the time to restore the circulation to the levels it had before the Covid-19 pandemic.

It would still be perfectly feasible for someone new to produce the next edition…as that’s effectively what happened when we took SIE over in 2019.

Please get in contact via [email protected] if you'd be interested in carrying SIE forward.

19/09/2025

HI FOLKS! We are looking for a new home for Scottish Islands Explorer magazine…we have been its custodians for six years…but it's a challenge we are now hoping to pass on to someone else…if you fancy taking on the task of actually running your favourite magazine, please get in touch with [email protected]

18/09/2025

The Argyll is a small owner operated hotel nestled in the village street. With sea views overlooking the Sound of Iona. We provide a home away from home, great food and attentive service. Retreat from the busyness of life and take some time out.

30/07/2025

The familiar sound of the ferry leaving Berneray for Leverburgh… the most familiar sound is right at the end as the first of many car alarms went off! fans

29/06/2025

23/06/2025

At COP26 in Glasgow in 2021, representatives of small island states made impassioned pleas for help to combat climate change. In an impressive speech, Mia Motley, prime minister of Barbados, presented delegates with the unvarnished truth that a two-degree rise in temperature would be a “death sentence” for island nations.
The Outer Hebrides is not a nation, though it sometimes feels like one, but as an island entity, it faces many of the same problems as Barbados. Of course, climate change is affecting the whole of the UK – indeed, the whole world – but it is hitting the Outer Hebrides and other islands communities in Scotland in specific ways that relate both to their state of being an archipelago and their connection to the land and the sea.

Fiona Rintoul looks at Climate Change in the June/July edition of Scottish Islands Explorer Magazine

03/06/2025

"It’s a strange place [the Isle of Rum], not in the slightly eccentric way which Eigg might be perceived, but in a darker more foreboding way, with its mountains rearing up like the gates of Mordor wherever you go on the island. It has a dark past too, and one which, despite two visits in very different weather, I don’t feel it has yet shaken off. "

Read what Alastair Macdonald Jackson has to say about about Rum in the June/July edition of Scottish Islands Explorer magazine!

27/05/2025

One of life's simple pleasures, hanging your sheets out on the line!

Rosemary Barry takes us to Lismore in the June/July edition of Scottish Islands Explorer magazine - which is out now!

Click the link in the bio to get your copy :)

15/05/2025

One of the less useful gates in the Scottish isles

12/05/2025

Stornoway-Ullapool ferry Loch Seaforth passing point - seen from Swordale.

21/04/2025

Poets from Scotland, New Zealand and Australia in event at the Scottish Poetry Library in Edinburgh – including Donald S Murray from Shetland and North Lewis. https://www.welovestornoway.com/index.php/articles/38163-donald-turns-starman-as-cosmic-crofter-soars

21/04/2025

Remembering the 'bothan' culture of North Lewis…and the court cases in the 20th Century
https://www.welovestornoway.com/index.php/articles/38185-police-raid-recalls-struggles-at-bothan