Moving steadily from digital consulting toward a guide-led life in Scotland: outdoors, in cities, on roads I know well, and bringing together a love of place, history and people.
Tartan Compass is now entering a practical summer phase. I am working on the website, shaping the first services and preparing a small number of experience ideas that can help visitors understand what a private day with me might feel like. The first offer will remain simple: private guiding in the city and beyond, on foot or by vehicle, shaped around story, place, pace and what matters to each guest.
Underneath that, I am building something deeper.
The Compass is my way of organising Scotland into experience ideas that can be discovered, selected, explored and remembered. Some may become private day tours. Some may become part of longer journeys. Some may eventually connect to a piece of writing, a visual memento or a story carried home.
For now, the task is simpler: build carefully, test honestly, and make sure the public offer stays clear.
If you are interested in Scotland, private guiding, thoughtful travel, heritage, walking or the stories that sit just beneath the landscape, I hope this Journal will become a useful place to follow the work as it develops.
Tartan Compass is still taking shape.
But the direction is clear: a place understood, a story shared, and a day shaped around you.