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Robert Burn’s Poet’s Path in Alloway(video)

Ayrshire Coastal Walking Path – Scotland – Source: contours.co.uk

Hi Mairiuna!

From all the marvelous paths one can travel while exploring the Scottish walking trails, one that I would be delighted to experiment is the Ayrshire Coastal path as illustrated in the map above. Just imagine how exciting it is to see seals, porpoise […]

February 22nd, 2013 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Authors, Folk Tales & Mysteries, History, Scottish Towns & Cities | Leave a comment

Following Literary Trails in Scotland: Edinburgh…

 

 

Edinburgh Advocate's Close © 2006 Scotiana

To discover literary Edinburgh, you have to walk it, defying Robert Louis Stevenson’s “bleak winds” and exploring Dorothy Wordsworth’s “passes of dark stone”, simply because there is no other way of penetrating the ancient wynds, closes and creeper-ridden burial grounds of this city, whose literary […]

August 22nd, 2012 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Authors, Books, Edinburgh | Leave a comment

Edinburgh: The Magic of the Place…

 

(Edinburgh Forth Bridges © 2006 Scotiana)

The Scottish capital is a place of outstanding beauty. It’s a city we’ve fallen in love with when we first discovered it a few years ago and we can’t wait to go back there!

Edinburgh Firth of Forth Bridges | […]

June 6th, 2012 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Category: Edinburgh | Leave a comment

Glasgow Necropolis: A Monument to ‘Child Migrants’…

 

Glasgow Necropolis © 2007 Scotiana

 

Here fond affection

rears its sculpted stone…

(from John Henry Alexander’s epitaph – Glasgow Necropolis)

 

“CEMETERIES ARE FOR THE LIVING. Sure, the dead are the permanent residents and the living merely visitors but the Necropolis and every other […]

December 16th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Category: Glasgow, Monuments, Scottish Graveyards, Scottish Towns & Cities | One comment

Teatime at Miss Cranston’s Willow Tearooms in Glasgow

The Willow Tea Room Sauchiehall Street © 2007 Scotiana

Hi everybody ! Try to imagine we’re all sitting on a Mackintosh chair round a Mackintosh table, in the very special atmosphere of the Willow Tearooms in Glasgow, chatting about everything Scotland, our favourite subject !

Jane Haining

To begin with, […]

March 8th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Category: Glasgow | Leave a comment
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