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Ulva Hostel – Avaibility 30th – 6th April
Due to a last minute cancellation, we now have availability from Monday 30th – Monday 6th April in the hostel. To book go to our website at https://ulvahostel.co.uk/ or email on ulvahostel@gmail.com or Whatsapp on +44(0) 7538 969 697. Read more
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Ulva Hostel – Neolithic Rock Art
Last weekend, Ulva hosted five guests, three folk from St Andrew’s University from the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, who are Dendrochronologists – otherwise known in the archaeological world as tree-ring scientists – and Gordon Gray Stephens from Native Woodlands Cooperative Scotland. All were on the Isle of Ulva to ‘age’ and study the… Read more
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Ulva Hostel – Spring is here!!
And the final push to get everything ready for re-opening Ulva Hostel later this month. Back at the end of October, it always seems that there’s plenty of time to get all the jobs done, but there never is – especially with the weather playing its part – but we think we’ve done well this… Read more
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Ulva Hostel and the Archaeology of Ulva
As some folk might know, when I’m not running the hostel on Ulva – or the many other jobs I do – I ‘do archaeology’. Just at the moment, ACFA – the Association of Certificated Field Archaeologists – have returned to Ulva, to carry on surveying around the in-bye area on the eastern side of… Read more
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Winter at Ulva Hostel – Painting the South Face of the Hostel
Given that the weather has been so dry and not too cold, I took the chance – or rather I was made to – paint the south gable end of the hostel, as that takes the majority of the weather due to the direction it faces. For reasons that I can’t explain, I always paint… Read more
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Rock Art at Ulva Hostel
For a few weeks it has been mostly dry and sunny – if blowing from the SE almost consistently! Therefore there is no excuse to be working on all those jobs we need to do before the season starts at Ulva Hostel. This was my excuse to be out on Ardalum Tor, just to the… Read more
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– St. Augustine
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