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An oasis of innocence – Shetland Islands
Blog: 501 Places - 7 November 2009
It’s around 200 miles from Aberdeen to Sumburgh on the southern tip of the main Shetland Island. Yet the most striking gap between these two parts of Scotland would be better measured in years, rather than miles. Shetland is in many ways like our parents told us our home towns used to be. An absence [...]
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Spooky Halloween around the world.
Blog: another pin on the map - 28 October 2009
Halloween traditions around the world.
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A Little Technology…Harnessing the Power of Twitter
Blog: A Little Adrift - A RTW Travelogue - 22 October 2009
I discovered a fantastic new use for Twitter that I plan to use on many of my future travels – and again, I owe it all to Andy. When I popped Andy a question about the Edinburgh Fringe Festival shows we arranged to meet up for a drink and chat. Once he decided that I wasn’t psycho (I promise, although I am a spaz, I’m actually quite nice in person!) he invited me to attend the weekly Twitter coffee meet up in the city. Apparently these “coffee mornings” happen all over ...
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A Little Music…Fringe’s Singing and Dancing
Blog: A Little Adrift - A RTW Travelogue - 19 October 2009
I approached Andy via email before I arrived in Edinburgh for Fringe show recommendations and to give him warning that I fully hoped to meet up for coffee and drinks while I was in town. Before he would send over a list of his recommendations he asks me: “Fringe can be pretty experimental and risqué, are you ok with nudity and profanity in the name of art or do you take offense easily?” Well, after watching his favorites – it’s probably a good thing I was warned! Edinburgh Fringe is unjuried and entirely ...
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a little theatre…rocking edinburgh fringe festival
Blog: A Little Adrift - A RTW Travelogue - 16 October 2009
Exiting the bus station in Edinburgh, Scotland I’m lured down the street toward the distant sounds of street music and cheering crowds on Princes Street that mingle alluringly with the more immediate rush of cars and the other pedestrians vying for space on the sidewalk. I’ve got two hours to kill before my host for the next week gets off of work and that means wandering the streets of Edinburgh in search of entertainment and grub. by Mario Cutroneo Stepping foot in Edinburgh was a culminating moment for me – in high ...
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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 advice…5 tips to plan a uk backpacking trip
Blog: A Little Adrift - A RTW Travelogue - 21 September 2009
The kids are out of school, many businesses in Europe are closed, flights are packed in elbow-to-elbow…ah, it must be August. Late summer in the United Kingdom is a very rough time of year; I’ve just learned this lesson and the stress it caused trying to travel around the country on a backpacker budget was [...]
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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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a little movie history…they can’t take our FREEDOM!
Blog: A Little Adrift - A RTW Travelogue - 17 September 2009
I really love great movie moments. Even the endlessly quotable cheesy ones have a special place in my everyday lingo and I use them indiscriminately and often. So as I arrived in Stirling, Scotland for the weekend it was all I could do to tone back the Mel Gibson impressions from Braveheart…after all, I do [...]
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Shadow reviews
Blog: Hackpacker - 11 September 2009
There was a marketing questionnaire that came from Lonely Planet asking authors how many reviews they reckoned they'd written. I really wouldn't have a clue. As a guesstimate, there's hundreds in any guidebook you write then there's a gagillion food reviews, plus about a billion shadow reviews. These are the reviews you start writing then work out that your subject is never going to make it in, so you keep writing it just for yuks. Some of them are pure fiction while in others only the names have been changed to protect the innocent.
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North East Scotland - the Moray Firth, Local Hero, and THAT red telephone box
Blog: 501 Places - 9 September 2009
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Lady in Edinburgh
Blog: A Lady in London - 24 August 2009
August is festival month in Edinburgh. With around ten festivals going on at the same time, Edinburgh comes alive with music, street performances, art, literature, food, and the occasional day of sunshine.
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Been There, Done That, and Loved Every Single Minute of It-Part I, Europe
Blog: EZGuler - 15 August 2009
I would be a terrible host if I didn't offer my guests pieces that look and sound appealing, so I have decided, with the coaxing of my beloved JT, to abandon the "Top Ten" title for something with more...pizzaz! There must be other words to describe these compact, efficient lists without having to resort to the boring, age-old "Top Ten List" apendage. Plus, what if I want to offer more than just 10? So here I go, with photographic lists of places and events I feel are worth putting the effort and time into capturing while you are traveling.
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Homecoming Queen
Blog: The Saturation Point of Bells - 8 August 2009
It's the Year of Homecoming here in Scotland. Three hundred events are scheduled between Burns Day on the 25 January through to November. Pageantry, pipers and tartan abound.
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A Novice’s Guide to Edinburgh in August
Blog: The Saturation Point of Bells - 1 August 2009
1. It will rain
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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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Well Readinburgh
Blog: Hackpacker - 24 June 2009
Walking around Edinburgh it's easy to see how this atmospheric town would inspire great novels.
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The Weekly Photo: Scottish Drummers
Blog: Nomadic Matt's Travel Site - 23 June 2009
It’s not exactly a photo but consider it a “moving picture.” This was a group of great Scottish street performers in Edinburgh. © [...]
