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Sunday Postcard: Loch Ness, Scotland
Blog: The Corny Traveler's Chronicles - 13 December 2009
Caledonian Canal, Fort Augustus, Scotland
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a little hitchhiking…spud the scottish piper
Blog: A Little Adrift - A RTW Travelogue - 8 October 2009
The ice cream began to drip down the side of my hand as I made my way to the small Fort Augustus bus stop with another long and drawn out travel day lying before me. Both my packs were strapped on and with 20 more minutes to kill before the bus arrived I made my way over the area where Spud the Piper was piping away to the tourists. He spotted me immediately, finished out the tune and then came over to chat. Since it was instantly obvious that I ...
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a little green…the forests of fort augustus
Blog: A Little Adrift - A RTW Travelogue - 5 October 2009
The vibrant green and completely lush underbrush climbing up the trees and creeping across the floor of the forest struck me first as I entered the darkly lit canopy of trees in the national park forests surrounding Fort Augustus. Video Tour of Loch Ness, Fort Augustus, Scotland Fort Augustus has about six major walks and hikes in the region that take between two to six hours each; this was a major factor for staying in the area for about a week. Most of my Scottish days were structured around hiking during ...
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a little charm…bagpipes and locks
Blog: A Little Adrift - A RTW Travelogue - 1 October 2009
The faintly audible music of bagpipes in the distance altered my course and I set my meandering walk toward the main street of Fort Augustus. The town is small. Tiny actually. And all of the action takes place along the Caledonian Canal that feeds into Loch Ness. The canal is set up with a [...]
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a little myth…romanticizing nessie
Blog: A Little Adrift - A RTW Travelogue - 30 September 2009
You know her as Nessie and her myth has spread all over the world; the legend of the Loch Ness Monster has caught the imaginations of dreamers and scientists, children and adults, and everyone in between. I confess that I made a multi-day stop to the long and legendary lake situated in the heart of [...]
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beauty and the beast
Blog: robbo joy (and now also slam) - 1 July 2009
after the mini stopover at iceland, we took off for the british isles and arrived in glasgow in the evening. our accommodations for the night, travelodge, was oddly positioned right next to an extreme sports megacomplex called xscape. xscape features an indoor ski slope, zip line and aerial obstacle course, rock climbing wall, and this free fall thing with fans to prevent sudden sure death. i really wanted to try it. we were also attracted to the novelty of the indoor snowboarding but decided that paying 15 pounds for one hour on a bunny slope was not worth it.
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Loch Ness
Blog: Hackpacker - 4 June 2009
Some friends are visiting Inverness and asked if they should check out the monstered waters around that way.
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