Ramblings of a Bookworm
Posted in Edinburgh, Favourite Places, Scotland on Feb 7th, 2010
I’ve chosen a few photos taken last July of Edinburgh for today’s Favourite Places post. For more Favourite Places see Margot’s blog Joyfully Retired.
I took some of these photos from a tour bus. Our grandchildren insisted we went on the Horrible Histories tour, which was very entertaining – of course the ordinary commentary was available as [...]
Posted in Favourite Places, Linlithgow, Scotland on Nov 22nd, 2009
Joy at Joyfully Retired does a weekly feature called Favorite Places and I thought today I’d post some photographs of one of my favourite places: Linlithgow about 20 miles from Edinburgh.
The approach to Linlithgow Palace
Linlithgow Palace entrance
Linlithgow Palace North Range
Linlithgow Palace Great Hall
Linlithgow Palace view from a window
Linlithgow Palace – a staircase
Linlithgow Palace
Linlithgow Loch
Posted in Linlithgow, Scotland, Wordless Wednesday on May 6th, 2009
Posted in Scotland, Wordless Wednesday on Apr 22nd, 2009
Niddry Castle, near Winchburgh, West Lothian
Well, nearly wordless.
Niddry Castle, a Tower House built around 1500, about 11 miles west of Edinburgh. Mary Queen of Scots stayed here in May 1568 after her escape from captivity in Loch Leven Castle. We visited it on an open day last September. The entrance is up a narrow stone stairway and I [...]
Posted in Books, Bookshops, Linlithgow, Scotland on Apr 2nd, 2009
This is my 500th post! I began very tentatively in July 2006, when I wrote my first post beginning “This is my first attempt at writing a blog.” It wasn’t much of an attempt and I wrote nothing more until April 2007. I never thought then that I’d keep going for another two years and reach [...]
Posted in Books, Guide Books, Ian Rankin, Scotland on Mar 30th, 2009
Last week whilst staying with our son in Scotland we visited Rosslyn Chapel. The chapel was founded in 1446 and is still used today as a place of worship. I first came across Rosslyn Chapel through reading Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code and was fascinated by it then. I never thought I’d actually visit it as [...]
Posted in Alice Munro, Books, Scotland, Sunday Salon on Feb 22nd, 2009
The idea of The Sunday Salon is to imagine we’re in a large reading room discussing the books we’re reading.
Today is a good day for reading. Yesterday the sun was shining drawing me outside. But today the sky is grey, the light is dull and I’m content to stay indoors and read. So far, however, I haven’t done much [...]
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