Tag Archives: self-drive Scottish tour

Freeing the Trees

Posted on October 1, 2015 by Kate Cowie Riley

We arrived at the airport in Edinburgh mid-afternoon, but with all the time spent with the lost luggage situation, we did not get on the road until a few hours after we had planned to do so. This meant that … Continue reading →

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Rocking Stones ~ Clach-Bràth

Posted on June 10, 2015 by Kate Cowie Riley

I was going through some old photographs from when I lived up in the California Sierra Nevada near Yosemite National Park. I had taken a photo of a very large rock that was sitting upon other rocks, but it didn’t look … Continue reading →

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Mountains & Munros

Posted on April 7, 2015 by Kate Cowie Riley

Oftentimes people will talk of “hunting a wild haggis” in the Scottish countryside. They may also talk of “bagging a Munro”. The second statement has a lot more believability than the first. Named after Sir Hugh Munro, 4th Baronet (1856-1919), … Continue reading →

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Carving the Runes

Posted on January 20, 2014 by Kate Cowie Riley

Here I am, sitting in my room, writing away with classical music in the background, and the announcer says that a guitar quartet will be playing (Sir) Peter Maxwell Davies’s “A Farewell to Stromness” — so I stop writing and … Continue reading →

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