SAIL a westbound ferry boldly beyond its habitual port of call, tramp the age-old cattle route of a drove road past its market destination then keep going, and you have emigration.

THE final day of what appears to have been a successful debut for Edinburgh’s 12-day TradFest saw some intriguingly disparate elements – from Robert Burns to Patrick Geddes – invoked in a conference assessing the place of the traditional arts in 21st century Scotland.

YOU MAY regard it as a benign reversal of those bad old Viking incursions or, more accurately, a sign of Scotland’s ever expanding musical interests, but there has been a marked migration of notable fiddlers from these shores to Norway in recent years.

PILGRIMS HAVE been tramping to Santiago de Compostela, in Spain’s north-west fastness of Galicia, for many centuries.