scotland – Page 2 – Meditations

February 21, 2018

Edinburgh Castle

Edinburgh is a castle most everyone knows about. This, paradoxically, also makes me like it less, and that especially after having been through the…

February 17, 2018

Craigmillar is a beast. It’s unlucky for it that a far more well known place is located within only a few miles, and that…

February 3, 2018

Cadzow is one of these places where the intervening centuries have left a considerable mark. Perhaps this is not even so obvious to the…

September 27, 2017

Dunnottar was recommended to me by a person, I think, in Falklands Palace. He also recommended Hermitage Castle, and once I visited that place…

September 1, 2017

I have to begin by saying I did not like Kellie much. Kellie has a very good garden, but it is severely disadvantaged by…

August 30, 2017

I am not quite sure what I expected when I went to Ravenscraig. I knew it wasn’t going to be the biggest place in…

August 28, 2017

I happened to Dunfermline by accident, heading further into Fife. Being close enough, I figured I should take a look, as I’d heard that…

August 26, 2017

Mighty as Caerlaverock Castle, Siege it feared not, scorned surrender… I saw Caerlaverock in the rain. I think she should be seen in the…

August 22, 2017

Falkland. The place which gave the name to the eponymous islands — or rather, which gave the name to the Lord of the Admiralty…

August 20, 2017

No, not the one in St Petersburg. Nor the one in Perthshire. The Hermitage in the Borders is what we’re talking about today… Oh…