Category Archives: history
Merry Christmas from Edinburgh
Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas from among the sparkling lights of Edinburgh. This tree always looks so beautiful in its dramatic setting on The Mound, overlooking Princes Street. It’s a gift to our city from the people of … Continue reading
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Tagged Christmas, Christmas tree, Edinburgh, friendship, joy, lights, photography, scotland, travel, winter
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Edinburgh Nights: Temple to the Arts
Sitting on The Mound in the heart of Edinburgh is a Grecian style temple dedicated to the arts. If it sounds out of place don’t be fooled. Physically this ramped road links the two halves of historic Edinburgh, the cramped … Continue reading
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Tagged Edinburgh, nighttime, photography, postaday, Royal Scottish Academy, scotland, temple, tourist, travel
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Royal Relics
This wonderful characterful unicorn is part of a fairytale Scottish relic commissioned by King James V. It has stood in the central courtyard of Linlithgow Palace since 1538, just one year after the young Scottish King married the sophisticated and … Continue reading
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Tagged fairytale, history, love, magic, myths, photography, postaday, royalty, scotland, travel
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Graveside Memories: Balmacara
It was my Granny’s birthday in June, while we were visiting Plockton, and so we paid her a visit in Balmacara Graveyard. I picked fresh flowers from the garden and we drove the twisting single track road out of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Balmacara, culdee, grave, gravestone, graveyard, history, knight, Loch Alsh, medieval, photography, scotland, travel
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Mysterious Fidra
Sitting, in the impossibly romantic rise and fall of the tidal waters of the Firth of Forth, is a small chain of rocky islands. Easily seen, but hard to reach, each evokes its own mystery and tales from times long … Continue reading
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Tagged ancient, art, Fidra, Firth of Forth, history, nature, photography, sacred, scotland
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Abandoned Castle
High on the Northumbrian coast sits this abandoned Medieval castle, its stone crumbling slowly back into the earth from which it was pulled. Built by the Kings cousin, one of the wealthiest men in the country, it was never inhabited … Continue reading
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Tagged abandoned, castle, decay, Dunstanburgh, England, medieval, nature, photography, postaday
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Winter Gold on Calton Hill
The liquid gold of winter sun pulled us up the slopes of Calton Hill. The green copper dome of the old city observatory was closed to the golden sun, but would open its lids to the ocean of stars which … Continue reading
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Tagged Calton Hill, history, landscape, mindfulness, photography, scotland, travel, winter
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Object of Mystery
Scattered all across the British landscape are stone objects, wreathed in the swirling mists of the Bronze Age, or perhaps even the Stone Age. 4,000 to 6,000 years ago our ancestors raised these huge blocks of rock at sites which … Continue reading
Juxtaposition of Time and History
There are wonderful juxtapositions of layers of history, all around the ancient heart of Edinburgh. The famous castle, so emblematic of the city, sits on the core of an ancient long extinct volcano. Formed 340 million years ago, this rocky … Continue reading
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Tagged Edinburgh, Edinburgh Castle, history, King Arthur, mindfulness, photography, postaday, sacred, travel
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