The Glasgow Gallivanter

Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia

July 28, 2012

Annapolis Royal is one of the oldest European settlements in Canada. It started in 1605 as Port Royal and changed hands between the French and the British many times in… Read more Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia →

Lunenburg, Nova Scotia

July 26, 2012

On Tuesday, we drove across NS from Halifax to Annapolis Royal, and it RAINED – the sort of rain we’d left home to avoid! We had decided to detour via… Read more Lunenburg, Nova Scotia →

Halifax and Peggy’s Cove, Nova Scotia

July 24, 2012 8 Comments

(For more photos, see my Nova Scotia Pinterest Board and John’s photo journals.) Halifax is just over an hour’s flight from Montreal. We arrived on a balmy Saturday evening to… Read more Halifax and Peggy’s Cove, Nova Scotia →

Mont-Royal and Oratoire St Joseph, Montreal

July 21, 2012

Yesterday, we walked in the opposite direction, all the way up to Mont-Royal, Montreal’s mountain. It’s a stiff climb, about 760 feet, but worth it for the views. The park… Read more Mont-Royal and Oratoire St Joseph, Montreal →

Old Montreal

July 20, 2012

The old part of Montreal, down by the St Lawrence River, is beautiful to wander round. It’s also warm at the moment which, for refugees from the Scottish summer, is… Read more Old Montreal →

Sandymount Cemetery Heritage Trail

July 18, 2012

A couple of months ago, I wrote about our visit to the Glasgow Necropolis. It’s the most famous, but not the only, Glasgow cemetery with a heritage trail and we… Read more Sandymount Cemetery Heritage Trail →

A visit to Cambridge

July 9, 2012 3 Comments

A stay at Churchill College.

Queen Elizabeth Forest Park

June 30, 2012 1 Comment

QEFP, created in honour of the Queen’s Coronation in 1953, is a beautiful area of forests, lochs and hills. We must have done most of the walks in it at… Read more Queen Elizabeth Forest Park →

A Top 20 UK Travel Blog?

June 23, 2012 2 Comments

Many thanks to Holiday365.co.uk for listing me amongst their Top 20 UK Travel Blogs. I’m not sure what I’ve done to deserve that but it’s very flattering! Thanks also to Heather on her Travels for pointing it out to me on Twitter. She’s on the list too, so I need to investigate her blog and the other 18 nominees so that I can update my blogroll. That’s a project for another day though….