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    A journey around Scotland: from North Berwick to Tantallon Castle…

     

    A View of Tantallon Castle – circa 1816 – Alexander Nasmyth – Wikimedia

    Tantallon screams defense. From a distance, its walls soar out of the rocky headland like a monster fortification. A single line of huge wall was all that was necessary to defend this promontory from the land. Sea cliffs fall away [...]

    A journey around Scotland: from Aberlady to Dirleton Castle…

     

    Aberlady Bay East Lothian © 2012 Scotiana

     

     

     

    Tuesday 4 September: from Aberlady Bay to  Dirleton Castle our journey around Scotland goes on…

    On our agenda today we’ve planned to follow the scenic coast road (A 198) from Edinburgh to Dunbar. Our first stop will be at Aberlady bay. [...]

    Why A Montreal Restaurant Was Named Braemar…

    Hi Mairiuna!

    I would like to share with you today a story about a restaurant owned and operated, for many years, back in the 1950′s, by my father, dearest Jean-Paul, the Braemar Restaurant, which was located at 8440 St-Lawrence Boulevard, just north of the Metropolitain Highway 40, which crosses, still nowadays, the city of Montreal, [...]

    Scottish Gifts under the Christmas Tree…

     

    Château de Chambord © 2012 Scotiana

    Hi everybody,

    BONNE ANNEE A TOUS !!!

    We’re just coming back from Sologne where we spent the New Year holidays not far from Aubigny-sur-Nère and a few kilometers from two of the most famous châteaux de la Loire: Chambord and Cheverny.

     

    Château de Cheverny en [...]

    Walter Scott’s First Letters to and from C.K. Sharpe at Hoddom Castle

     

    Thomas Carlyle Portrait

     

    In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time:the articulate audible voice of the Past,

    when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream.

    (Thomas Carlyle)

    A single-track [...]