Scotland, ah what a great country ~ where even the peacock butterflies pose for a photo! I was just there for 10 days, first getting my travel injections, and then moved on visiting friends. It’s a beautiful place! Spent most … Continue reading North of the Border…
And what a great wee country it is! A bit bleak in places, and at this time of year, not always the best weather (read: don’t go to Scotland in winter!) but hey, the people are lovely and there’s plenty … Continue reading Scotland, ah Scotland!
Kinda misread the postcode and before I knew it, my friends turned out to have moved to EH41 not EH4 – which is the difference between the west and east side of Edinburgh ~ so off I redirected myself to what turned out to be the very lovely town of Haddington in East Lothian, birthplace of John Knox (considered to be the founder of the Scottish Presbyterian Church) no less! A historic and beautiful town with famous churches and buildings galore, and a nice Holy Week Prayer Cairn at Holy Trinity Episcopal Church…. And discovering in fact that we’re now kind of directly … Continue reading Haddington, East Lothian
It may be April Fool’s Day but this is no joke – waking up to a thick covering of the white stuff today and it’s supposed to be spring! Here I am in Strathardle, in deepest Scotland – and looking at them poor sheep frozed outside the house early this morning…. This morning, driving over Moulin Moor and down into Pitlochry looked like this – it’s bleak out there! Now southward bound – Easter is coming! Continue reading Snow, snow and more snow ~ in April!
When in Scotland gotta go and check out the ancestors ~ and so it was that today I found myself in Netherton, Bridge of Cally where my grandmother was born and brought up – at the Smithy…. Netherton is right at the beginning of Glenshee, and so, determined to get as far as possible up Glenshee before the rain came, off I went, up and up….. Right up to the top in fact, to the Glenshee Ski Slopes, the UK’s largest ski resort, and the highest public road in the UK at 670m…. although now closed for the summer. It’s actually just … Continue reading Glenshee, Perthshire
Ah, St. Andrews, home of all sorts of things ~ Scotland’s oldest university, the ruins of Scotland’s largest cathedral, and home of the oldest and most iconic golf course in the world, and right on the sea. Oh yes, and famous for being the place where Prince William and Kate met as students…. And home too, of one of the nicest university chapels in the country! Most old university chapels are, well, let’s face it, dark, gloomy and sombre places, not helped by all the dark wood used for the pews. St. Andrews University Chapel – St. Salvator’s Chapel – … Continue reading St. Andrews, Scotland
Visited Kinghorn this afternoon ~ the harbour is still the same from all the times I’ve visited my relatives here in years gone by ~ the old church, the beach, the lifeboat station, and the sea, even at low tide ~ beautiful! And now I’m further along the Fife coast visiting friends ~ this is the view from their local hill, Largo Law, the remains of a volcanic plug…. That’s the Firth of Forth, and the hills of East Lothian in the distance. What a view ~ but it wasn’t half a steep climb up to get there! Continue reading The Fife Coast
Spent an amazing few hours at the Forth Bridges near Edinburgh today ~ the road bridge, rail bridge and even the construction work that’s going on for the new one…. They are truly incredible! This is the charming village of South Queensferry, and the view north across the Firth of Forth…… And at North Queensferry, the village is almost right under the bridge…. and the view south… There’s tons of history, tons of steel ~ and tons of awe at what has been made ~ definitely big WOW factor! Continue reading Forth Bridges, Edinburgh
YES, sun, sun and more sun, incredible! Here I am in very bonny and very sunny Scotland ~ yippee! Just been visiting my good friend Elizabeth who’s now starting her second retirement ~ in the most beautiful place ever, West Kilbride. I’d originally kinda assumed it must be near East Kilbride ~ but no, it’s way out west, 40 miles SW of Glasgow, right on the west coast with spectacular views of the mountains on the Isle of Arran and all up the Firth of Clyde…. Elizabeth was a tutor at the CMS Training College, Crowther Hall, in the Selly Oak Colleges, Birmingham, having been … Continue reading Scotland, Sunny Scotland
Catherine Lee 