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    ROLLING ON THE RIVER

    May 21, 2021 6 minutes
    PHOTOGRAPHY DAVID LINTERN
    “No amount of snacks were going to get us through the next two hours without a fair amount of sulking. And that was just the adults.”

    WHAT TO DO, when the school holiday coincides with un-lockdown and a veritable festival of fevered families desperate to escape the mean city streets?

    Here in the Scottish Highlands it’s a whole new tourist ballgame, post-Covid. With international travel off the cards, there’s been an inevitable influx of visitors every time guidance permits, often without the facilities to cope. In the summer of 2020, the news and social media were awash with images of ‘dirty campers’, which helped no-one and triggered many. Thankfully, we’re all heading into 2021 with a clearer understanding of so-called ‘visitor management’ and more rangers, loos and public information; but last year, we were in unknown territory.

    My family are very lucky: we already live somewhere beautiful; but just like anyone else we were keen to spread our wings after keeping it local. But where? The west coast sounded like it was bursting at the

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