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Culloden

I’m walking on Culloden Moor, the site of the last pitched battle in the United Kingdom, which took place in April 1746. Today, this is a peaceful place, a memorial site, and there are just gentle breezes and birdsong to experience. But as you go around, you will see the markers of the graves ofContinue reading “Culloden”

Letter from Denmark: Viking Link

A post from Cameron McNeish caught my eye this week. He wrote, “Scotland’s wild landscapes are being torn up by wind farms and miles upon miles of goose-stepping lines of pylons.” I never really noticed pylons in my 1960s childhood. On bus trips to Troon or the Heads of Ayr the landscape looked pretty much rural and natural. I drank it inContinue reading “Letter from Denmark: Viking Link”