Exploring cultures and communities – the slow way

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The Whaligoe steps in Caithness, Scotland (photo © Paula Fisher / dreamstime.com).

Unforgiving stone
  

The poetry of Paul Hadfield has featured before in hidden europe. When he sent us a poem on the Whaligoe Steps in north-east Scotland, it set us thinking about some of the iconic stairways that we have encountered on our travels around ...