Monthly Archives: June 2016

The View from Ratagan Pass

Posted on June 30, 2016 by crowcanyonjournal

After our adventures in Fort William and InverLochy our Rabbie’s Tours mini-bus continued up north on Highway A82 until we reached Invergarry when we turned off to Highway A87 which goes all the way to Skye. But when we reached … Continue reading →

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MM 3-11: Me ‘n Bobby in Edinburgh

Posted on June 28, 2016 by crowcanyonjournal

We visited the National Museum of Scotland one day during our recent trip to Edinburgh and afterwards wandered up a block to the Elephant Cafe for lunch. In between these two places we came across a small statue of a … Continue reading →

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Fort William and Inverlochy in the Scottish Highlands

Posted on June 27, 2016 by crowcanyonjournal

After Glencoe we continued up A82 on our nine-hour bus trip to Skye and stopped at Fort William to look around and have some lunch. Fort William has its beginnings as a garrison for English rulers to store their troops … Continue reading →

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The Misty Hills of Glencoe — Part 3

Posted on June 24, 2016 by crowcanyonjournal

The British call them laybys or lay-bys and there are four or five of them pretty close to each other in the Three Sisters area of Highway A82 in Glencoe. We pulled over at one of them and waited until … Continue reading →

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The Misty Hills of (and near) Glencoe — Part 2

Posted on June 23, 2016 by crowcanyonjournal

Well, there are a lot of misty hills in the highlands of Scotland but not all of them are in Glencoe. It seems that I made a topographical error in my posting a couple of days ago. One of my … Continue reading →

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MM 3 – 10: The Canongate Wall of the Scottish Parliament

Posted on June 22, 2016 by crowcanyonjournal

For Leanne Cole’s Monochrome Madness Challenge this week I have decided to submit this photo I took last month in Edinburgh of the Canongate Wall of the Scottish Parliament.

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The Misty Hills of Glencoe — Part 1

Posted on June 20, 2016 by crowcanyonjournal

Well, I have downloaded all of my photos from our three-week trip to Scotland by now and have post-processed most of them. It seems that my best photos were all taken on the first day of our bus trip to … Continue reading →

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A Sunny Day on St Andrew Square in Edinburgh

Posted on June 17, 2016 by crowcanyonjournal

It was a bright and sunny day and our last day in Edinburgh last month when we decided to walk from our hotel on Picardy Place to the Scottish National Portrait Gallery on Queen Street and from there make our … Continue reading →

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The Cherry Trees of Canongate Kirk

Posted on June 15, 2016 by crowcanyonjournal

There are two major reasons for traveling to Edinburgh in early May rather than any other time of the year: (1) the weather is usually fair at this time; and (2) that’s when the cherry trees in front of the … Continue reading →

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The Ten Best Paintings in the Scottish National Gallery

Posted on June 12, 2016 by crowcanyonjournal

Alexander McCall Smith has written a series of novels called The Sunday Philosophy Club that features Edinburgh’s super amateur detective Isabel Dalhousie. I read the first book in the series a week before our trip to Scotland and the second … Continue reading →

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