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The Scottish Tales of Moray Firth with Hugh Miller…

Hugh Miller was born in 1802, in Cromarty. It is a lovely little town, a former royal burgh, situated at the end of the so-called “Black Isle” which, contrary to what the name suggests and also, on a quite different register, contrary to Herge’s description of the place in his volume of Tintin entitled The […]

January 21st, 2017 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Authors, Books, Folk Tales & Mysteries | One comment

From a mysterious ring to a Pictish Stone in Cromarty…

 

There are so many fascinating stories about Scotland that I never know which subject to choose for my next post! I was still thinking about it when, a few days ago, a very interesting article caught my attention. It had been published in March 2025 by Hector Mackenzie in The Inverness Courier and was […]

May 31st, 2025 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Hugh Miller, Pictish Stones | Leave a comment

The Magic of the Scottish Landscapes…

When we first discovered Scotland, like many travellers, we immediately fell in love with this wonderful land. Since then we have never stopped going back there, again and again, never getting tired of its wild beauty, of the quality of its light, of its changing skies… .

Ardvreck Castle Loch Assynt Sutherland […]

October 31st, 2022 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment

A Selection of Scottish Authors & Books for Christmas 2021

How am I to sing your praise, Happy chimney-corner days, Sitting safe in nursery nooks, Reading picture story-books?

(Robert Louis Stevenson – From A Child’s Garden of Verses)

I could not have found more charming lines to introduce my new selection of books for Christmas than the above verses written by Robert […]

November 30th, 2021 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Books, Children's Literature, George Mackay Brown, Robert Louis Stevenson | Leave a comment

Painting with Sunlight: Hill & Adamson Edinburgh’s Pioneers in Photography ..

 

Bonjour Marie-Agnès, Janice et Jean-Claude, Hello again from Scotland ! 🙂

I know that you rarely travel without your camera, Jean-Claude, but I wonder whether you were keenly interested in photography even as a schoolboy? One or two of my school friends would talk of developing and printing their own photos – in black […]

March 29th, 2018 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: History, Letters From Scotland | One comment
 
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