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 [...]

 
 
‘Books!’ says Tuppence in Agatha  Christie’s Postern of Fate
(Chapter 1: ‘Mainly Concerning Books’)

“Is there anything I can take down for you?”
“Well, I wish you would”, said Tuppence. “I’m falling off those chairs. Some of their legs are very wobbly, some of them rather slippery.”
”Any book in particular?”
”Well, I haven’t got on very far with the [...]

Melrose Abbey is a religious, historical and architectural landmark in Scotland, one you must not miss when you visit the Scottish Borders, together with the three other very beautiful  Border abbeys : Dryburgh, Jedburgh and Kelso. They are in ruins but we love them all,  especially Melrose and Dryburgh where Sir Walter Scott is buried [...]

Hi Janice ! How interesting your post about Carlyle! You know, I remember pretty well the quiet village of Ecclefechan, near the town of Moffat, having gone there in 2004 and 2006. We found Carlyle’s grave, with its two enigmatic dragon heads carved on the stone and also his statue dominating the area, a lonely [...]

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 [...]