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    Robert Burn’s Poet’s Path in Alloway(video)

    Ayrshire Coastal Walking Path – Scotland – Source: contours.co.uk

    Hi Mairiuna!

    From all the marvelous paths one can travel while exploring the Scottish walking trails, one that I would be delighted to experiment is the Ayrshire Coastal path as illustrated in the map above. Just imagine how exciting it is to see seals, porpoise [...]

    February 22nd, 2013 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Authors, Folk Tales & Mysteries, History, Scottish Towns & Cities | Leave a comment

    The Poet’s Path in Alloway and Tam O’ Shanter story…

     

     

    The poet’s bust in Burns Cottage garden in Alloway© 2012 Scotiana

    Hi everybody,

    Hi Janice !  Do you remember the day we spent in Alloway, the native village of Robert Burns? Quite an unforgettable day indeed but sadly enough it was the last but one day of our 2012 trip around Scotland…

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    February 5th, 2013 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Authors, Museums | Leave a comment

    A visit to Alloway In Memoriam of Robert Burns…

     

     

    Bust of Robert Burns in Alloway Memorial © 2012 Scotiana

    Today is a date not to be missed on the calendar for it is the anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns, the great national bard of Scotland whose poems are known and sung all over the world… so let us celebrate [...]

    January 25th, 2013 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , | Category: A Scots Yearbook, Authors, Great Scots | Leave a comment

    Scottish Top Authors share their favourite reads…

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    Mairiuna, I just stumbled upon an article in the Scotsman online magazine that compiles a list of top Scottish authors’ favourite books for the year 2012.

    In all, 44 authors contributed to this project. Wow… Ain’t it exciting to find out what our best authors reads are?

    So happy to find on the list Christopher Brookmyre,  [...]

    January 18th, 2013 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: Authors, Books | Leave a comment

    Following Literary Trails in Scotland: Edinburgh…

     

     

    Edinburgh Advocate's Close © 2006 Scotiana

    To discover literary Edinburgh, you have to walk it, defying Robert Louis Stevenson’s “bleak winds” and exploring Dorothy Wordsworth’s “passes of dark stone”, simply because there is no other way of penetrating the ancient wynds, closes and creeper-ridden burial grounds of this city, whose literary past [...]

    August 22nd, 2012 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Authors, Books, Edinburgh | Leave a comment
     
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