Scotiana

Hi Mairiuna!
I’m happy to learn, inside your latest article touring us around Arcachon’s ‘less known heights’, that old villas of the area had a Scottish link!
Great discovery my friend .
And I just love the black & white postcards you showcased, as they romantically travel us back into time …
The following excerpt from your [...]

Rob Roy MacGregor – Engraving – Source: Wikipedia

In February of 1671, was born in Glengyle, a couple of hundred yards above river Gyle’s northern bank, near Loch Katrine, the third son of Donald MacGregor (aka Donald Glas, or pale, from the natural pallor of his skin), a chief of Clan Gregor and his wife Margaret [...]

Hi Mairiuna!  Upon reading your last post Rob Roy, one of Walter Scott’s Most Popular Novels,  which I found so informative,   it reminded me that I had purchased last summer a biography of Rob Roy MacGregor,  His Life and Times written in 1982 by W.H. Murray, edited by Richard Drew Publishing, of Glasgow.
In [...]