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Island & Sea & Gaelic song: Maggie MacInnes
Blog: Music Road - 28 June 2010
Maggie MacInnesA Fagail Mhiughalaigh (Leaving Mingulay)
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World’s great winter festivals
Blog: Lonely Planet blog - 18 January 2010
A cold winter is the rat of seasons. It always appears and most of us greet it with irritation, contempt, whining, even fear. Shouldn’t be the case. Vancouver’s showing off winter fun at the Olympics next month, and even away from ski slopes (or luge tracks), some places save their biggest events for the chilliest [...]
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a little tour…photos of the scottish highlands and glens
Blog: A Little Adrift - A RTW Travelogue - 13 October 2009
I half to admit, I owe one to the Universe now. What do I owe, you might ask? Well, I have return a kindness done to me and pay it forward by opening my home and my time to a traveler visiting my home state. On an icy-cold evening in Northern India I met two other backpackers, sisters, nestled into a tiny restaurant in McLeod Ganj. We shared a table, there was not a seat to spare in the warm and cozy one-room restaurant, and backpacking stories during the hot meal. ...
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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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a little imagination…exploring skye through the rain
Blog: A Little Adrift - A RTW Travelogue - 28 September 2009
The scent of Scotland changes as the damp rains roll in; throughout the small city of Portree the earthy smell of grass and the fresh scent of wet flowers begin to dominate the air and override the ostensibly more powerful scent of deep-frying fish and chips; instead the collage of smells mingle together in the [...]
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a little hiking…the old man of storr
Blog: A Little Adrift - A RTW Travelogue - 25 September 2009
The sun weakly peeped it’s head from behind the smoky gray clouds and gave me no other choice but to surmise that today, like everyday for the past four days, was going to be another damp, cold, Scottish day. The Isle of Skye is supposedly one of the most gorgeous regions of Scotland (every region claims [...]
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a little inevitability…it’s raining, it’s pouring
Blog: A Little Adrift - A RTW Travelogue - 21 September 2009
The weather in England and Scotland was incredible for the week I traveled in the region…seriously sunny. Now, it was also cold, and that made for an un-happy Shannon, but very little rain to be seen. It was lulling me into complacency. Taking public transportation in rainy countries sucks. Now, I am not going to be [...]
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