Scotiana

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Hi Mairiuna!  I’m back online and must tell you that reading your great post about Sir Walter Scott’s romantic home, Abbotsford, brought back to mind the great number of memorable, historical and valuable objects we saw when visiting the many rooms of his beloved house.

Let alone the magnificent library which contains more than 7,000 books, I was amazed by all [...]

Abbotsford!
The Home of Sir Walter Scott!

With hills, fields and woods in the background, like a fairytale castle, the old house emerges from beautiful gardens with its many chimneys, its crenellated turrets and crow stepped gables…
No wonder Sir Walter was so deeply attached to Abbotsford. He designed the house in the same way he wrote his [...]

We’ll begin the new year, on Scotiana,  with our reading of Walter Scott’s Rob Roy, one of the most famous Waverley novels. The French and English audio files will be available for download as well. That’ll take some doing but Janice and I are very enthusiastic about sharing with you our reading of this great [...]

We can’t help returning to Abbotsford each time we go to Scotland to pay homage to the great writer. Sir Walter Scott’s presence can still be felt in each room of the vast house and along the quiet alleys  of the beautiful park surrounding it. In some corner of the garden you may happen to [...]

Day after day, in our quest of Scotland, we go deeper and deeper into that fascinating country and like hungry pilgrims on a never ending path we discover new horizons at each turn. So, let us walk on, listening on the road to what people say and write there…
If you could see my library, you [...]