A weekend without rain!
In honour of a weekend of glorious weather, I’m taking a break from my holiday diary to add some pictures of Scotland basking under blue skies. It doesn’t happen often… Read more A weekend without rain! →
Fayetteville and the New River Gorge
Despite its name, the New River is probably one of the oldest in North America, with the most accepted estimate suggesting that it has run its present course for at… Read more Fayetteville and the New River Gorge →
Roanoke and Abingdon
From Peaks of Otter, we set off down the Blue Ridge Parkway again to Roanoke. It took all morning to do about 30 miles because we stopped so often –… Read more Roanoke and Abingdon →
Peaks of Otter
The Blue Ridge Parkway proved as beautiful, if not more so, than the Skyline Drive and we stopped several times to get out and stretch our legs. The most pleasant… Read more Peaks of Otter →
The bears of Shenandoah
Our first holiday to Virginia / West Virginia was in 2008. At that time, we said we could easily come back and travel a completely different route which is exactly… Read more The bears of Shenandoah →
Harpers Ferry – almost heaven
Almost heaven, West Virginia Blue Ridge Mountains Shenandoah River Yes, this is the area of which John Denver sang – the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia, where the Potomac meets… Read more Harpers Ferry – almost heaven →
Assisi, Umbria
One of my resolutions after the A to Z Challenge in April was to “join the dots” where I’d only written about parts of a holiday. One of those was our Italian trip in… Read more Assisi, Umbria →
The Liebster Award
I made a lot of new blogging friends during April’s A to Z Challenge, and afterwards two of them very kindly nominated me for a Liebster Award. They were Birgit… Read more The Liebster Award →
Jupiter Artland
I’ve never been to anything quite like Jupiter Artland before. Robert and Nicky Wilson bought Bonnington House in West Lothian, a Jacobean manor house with an 100-acre estate, in 1999, and decided to… Read more Jupiter Artland →
Glasgow School of Art – mourning the Mack
Originally posted on Adventures of a Retired Librarian:
Mackintosh Building 22nd May 2014 This is not quite the post I meant to write, and for a few days I wasn’t…
The Great Tapestry of Scotland
Anchor Mill in Paisley, near Glasgow, has long been in the background of my life. I remember it from the pre-motorway days of the 1960s when our family drove past it every summer on… Read more The Great Tapestry of Scotland →
North Bruges
Our final walk was to the north, and encompassed some of the prettiest, and quietest, canals we had seen. The main sight of the first section was Sint Jakobskerk. I particularly liked the two-tier tomb of Ferry De Gros who died in 1544. If you click on the photo, you can just about make out that there are two sets of praying hands on the top section. That’s De Gros with his first wife, who died in 1521, behind him. Underneath lies his second wife who died in 1530. De Gros… Read more North Bruges →
The Glasgow Gallivanter 