And now there are seven (Icelandic whaling letter from tour operators)

The letter below was sent to nine travel companies asking them whether they would sign up. So far we have seven signatures and two refusals (see below). I have no beef with the two companies, so far, who have said a polite ‘no’. All companies are different, they face different constraints and signing this letter…

A letter to the Icelandic Prime Minister

Yesterday I sent this letter to the Prime Minister of Iceland.  The postage costs £1.25. Katrín Jakobsdóttir Stjórnarráðshúsinu við Lækjartorg 101, Reykjavík Iceland Dear Ms Jakobsdóttir (written by hand) Commercial whaling in Iceland I am writing to urge your government to take further steps to end commercial whaling in Icelandic waters.  I have watched whales…

A’Mhoine 2

This is interesting.  It relates to the plan, or should that be incredibly vague idea, to build a space port (whatever that might be) on the A’Mhoine peninsula in Sutherland – ‘a remote boggy stretch of land’. Have a look at this journey made by a young Golden Eagle in 2014 where it headed off…