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.
 
Cheverny is the castle which served as a model to the Belgian comic book creator Hergé for [...]

 
Hi everybody,
Today is September 21st, the first day of the autumn season though here, in the south of France, it looks like a summer day, warm and sunny! I wonder what is the weather like in Scotland now…
Is it as beautiful as it was, 179 years ago, in that quiet and beautiful corner of the [...]

 
Hi everybody!
Hope this article finds you well and enjoying life.
We received a letter in reference with the restoration of Sir Walter Scott’s House in the Borders region of Scotland and thought it would be great to share its contents as it is a cause that is close to our heart.
Samantha Hobrough is part [...]

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Hi Mairiuna!
While checking my agenda this morning, I noticed a scribble indicating that today was Sir Walter Scott’s birthday!
I said to myself that we could not let this day go by without honouring our favorite scottish writer .  To celebrate his priceless legacy which had such a great impact on historical fiction and  upon so [...]

 
As revealed in Mairiuna’s post “Sir Walter Scott’s Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border Rediscovered “, I am now quite pleased to introduce you to a series of articles about Sir Walter Scott’s cherished friends, be them on two legs or four.
As you will surely agree with me, this is a very daunting project [...]