About this blog
"There are two seasons in Scotland: June and winter."- Billy Connolly.
In 2012 I moved back to Canada, and I'm no longer updating this blog. Thanks for visiting.
In 2012 I moved back to Canada, and I'm no longer updating this blog. Thanks for visiting.
Popular Posts
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We arrived at The Watermill bookstore in Aberfeldy just as it opened. The sun was glaring off the sheen of fresh rain and a chill hung in t...
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Since I don’t drive here and am restricted to the use of public transport, if it wasn’t for the “sure, whatever you want honey,” attitude of...
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Despite an ingrained curiosity about things that are new to me, I can also be stubborn when it comes to food and drink. Once I find somethin...
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Do you ever have adventures that at the time seem like a terrible punishment but somehow, days or weeks later, your mind romanticizes your m...
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It is easy to dub Dunblane Cathedral a “no frills” kind of place. It sits like a hulk above the River Allan, its checkerboard tower denoting...
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Perhaps this view isn't for everyone, as the road nearing the northerly most settlement in Britain is surrounded by bleak, wind-swept co...
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Once again the Edinburgh Fringe is drawing to a close, and once again I have missed it. Other than a couple of forays onto the Royal Mile to...
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You have to imagine it in the dead of night, the curve of the stone steady above the moving water, which unlaces the reflected shards of moo...
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Hogmanay is the most important holiday in Scotland, celebrated with more fervour than Christmas. The reports say that around 80,000 people c...
Favourite Scotland Blogs & Sites
- Allotment 2 Kitchen
- Autofocused Photo blog
- Blue sky Scotland
- Cairn in the Mist
- CraftyGreenPoet
- Craigwell Cottage blog
- Dancing Beastie
- Dave Gifford in Shetland
- Edinburgh City Libraries blog
- Edinburgh Day by Day
- Edinburgh Spotlight
- Edinburgh Whisky Blog
- Edinburgh's Dark Side
- Elgol: Photo Hebrides
- Fergie & Fife
- Five Precious Things
- Gavin Macfie's highland adventures
- Glasgow Daily Photo
- GlenTrek
- Gone to Scotland
- Green Isle of the Great Deep
- Highland Happenings
- Islay Blog
- Journeys to Scotland
- Life on a Small Island (Orkneys)
- Life on the Hill
- Light and Dark
- Linda Mellor's Photographic Blog
- Love of Scotland
- Must Visit Scotland
- Natural Scotland
- Nordic Blackbird
- North Light
- Occasional Scotland
- Painting on the Edge
- Pebble Heart
- Photo Hebrides
- Photogenic Scotland
- Photographer Kim Ayres
- Raw Food in Scotland
- Scotland in the Gloaming
- Scotland Landscapes
- Scottish Ancenstry
- Scottish Borders
- Scottish Poetry Library
- Scottish Roundup
- The Edinburgh Blog
- The Good Soup Guide
- The Scottish Lemon
- Trampy and the Tramp (Curry!)
- Traveling Savage
- Uist Lady
- Wandering Gecko
- Wee bit of cooking
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- Inside the limestone belly of Smoo Cave
- The Gathering 2009
- The many lives of Argyll's Lodging
- Remnants
- Chasing the storm at Ardvreck Castle
- Cookbook winner is fusion food lover
- Haggis Lasagne and a Lovely Giveaway
- A road for motorcyclists
- How to be Swedish in Scotland
- The beauteous bulk of Dunblane Cathedral
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