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    A journey around Scotland: a day in the Old Town of Edinburgh

     

    Monday 3 September

    12:00  we leave Mortonhall campsite. The place is rather empty at this hour of the day except for our little friends, the rabbits, which play around and hide below our wigwam. They must be eager to be left alone in their realm…

    Highland cow in Mortonhall campsite © [...]

    A journey around Scotland: roaming the New Town in Edinburgh

     

    Edinburgh Tour green bus © 2012 Scotiana

    Hi everybody,

    Lovely as this double-decker may look like we are not going to visit Edinburgh aboard it though it might have been a solution to avoid parking and traffic problems in the city (tram works presently).

    Wigwam – Mortonhall Caravan & Camping Site – [...]

    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 [...]

    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 [...]

    Edinburgh: The Magic of the Place…

     

    (Edinburgh Forth Bridges © 2006 Scotiana)

     The Scottish capital is a place of outstanding beauty. It’s a city we’ve fallen in love with when we first discovered it a few years ago and we can’t wait to go back there!

    Edinburgh Firth of Forth Bridges | Source: Wikipedia

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