Thursday, 24 May 2007

Loch Ness, Scotland


On way up we dropped into Dunkeld and saw the hermitage and Ossian’s Hall (pic above) and a heritage centre of local life in the 1930s. Fascinating (though long) day and we were more than happy to finally pull into the hostel on the banks of Loch Ness. Next day the crazy Scottish weather was bucketing down rain when we got to Urquart Castle (which i can’t spell right at the moment) but by the time we had gone inside to get tickets then come out at the castle it was sunny and clear! Lovely view of the Loch (no monster in sight) and a quick wizz through the castle (did i mention we are a bit over castles?), then onto the Loch Ness Centre for the low down on Nessie. Vaguely interesting walk through with video displays then about a billion souvenirs for sale :P

On way from Loch Ness up the coast we found a farm shop where we went to get eggs and came out with everything from roasted smoked salmon (soooo good!) to shortbread (and the eggs of course). Not quite the plan but had a seriously good feast that night at the hostel in Canisbay. Should mention that Ve has been navigating unaided the whole time we have been driving and has been doing a brilliant job!

5 comments:

dave said...

vaguely interesting walk through? hmmm.. i think you're being rather generous there!! we didn't get to see nessie when hols and i were there but we did see a cool garden gnome cricket game set up in someone's front yard

sounds like you guys are still having a great time!!

Anonymous said...

this looks like a postcard!
All sounds way too good-very jelous!!!
I've got a quiz for you two:
Its the old...
"Are we turning into grandma? quiz"
How many photos are you averaging per day
a) 1-15
b) 15-35
c) photos? i'm thinking 2 memory cards
Results:
a)-your safe
b)-borderline grandma
c)-uh oh!

:) Hope your both well!!
xxxxxxx
steph

Anonymous said...

very good.
video nessie mc escher date 18.01.1949
http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=RQrovNERYfU

Anonymous said...

Bello Questo Inedito Quadro di M.C.ESCHER.Ho visto anche l'intervista del Sindaco di Volturara Irpina su:

http://www.fimservice.it/pdf/pol_apr07.pdf

Anonymous said...

http://www.adppolizia.com/pdf/PolNovembre08_mini.pdf
page 4


Current affairs monthly review of culture and trade-union informations
POLICE MAGAZINE 2008

In the Janare Land
A trip in the depths of Irpinia ,between legends ,magics and mysterys
Antonio Emanuele PIEDIMONTE

Janare,witches, sorceress,fairy,enchantress,but also archair divinities and terrible female demons: a contemporary trip about mysterious traces of the past,between the things that survived the damages of the time and the men.
This book is an excavation between written and oral old stories which have emersed from testy monys,books.articles and vary materials which antiche legends,stories,traditions,fairytales,curious chronicle’s and many more,define themselves x files today. The vademecum is a result to look at Irpinia with another eye,the most secluded and mysterious place between the district of the secret Campania.
This volume is a kino of an “initiatory course “ without solutions that wants to provoke new questions and desires,like when you get in to the car to discover 119 Irpinia’s villages,between lunar landscapes and mysterious phenomenons places.
The inexplicable skull in the eye of the statue of holy mary of san pompilio ( the cover’s imagine),
The mummie of “ zi Vicienzo” at Bonito,going through the castle of Prince Carlo Gesualdo, the vestige of the ancient Gonza, the mefite infernal corner,the unsustainable look of mamma schiavona
Under beneath there is the secret garden of virgilio mago at montevergine-and the FAMOUS DRAGON OF VOLTURARA. On the traces of saints,demons,angels,monster,ghosts,werewolfs,souls in purgatory and many others.
This could be an excuse to go to discover new archaic messages and new secrets to reveal. The Professionals Journalist and photographer Antonio Emanuele Piedimonte of Naples has written for the principals dailies and Italian magazines,at present he is the superintendent of the Redazione Campana “city” , the freedaily of gruppo Rizzoli-Corriere della Sera.Inside his book for the “Corriere.quotidiano dell’Irpinia” the editions Intra Moenia stopped the stamp in November 2007 with the Cangiano graphic S.R.L. of Naples,a book of 215 pages titled:
“NELLA TERRA DELLE JANARE”, a trip in the depths of Irpinia,between legends,magics and mysterys,at page 183 there is VOLTURARA IRPINA:Il drago e la rosa, Antonio Emanuele Piedimonte writes………Volturara could have been one of the three cities of the etrurian dodecapolis in Campania……..after the destruction of Sabatia,the Romans conquered the antiche city Irpina more than 2000 years ago.
TODAY AT VOLTURARA THERE HAS BEEN FOUND ANINEDITED PAINTING OF THE FAMOUS ARTIST MAURITS CORNELIS ESCHER,WHICH REPRESENTS THE LEGEND OF A MODERN DRAGON,WHO LIVES IN A LAKE:THE FAMOUS “LOCH NESS MONSTER”.-
Even the POLICE MAGAZINE has published a lot of articles about the discovery of the inedited painting of the famous artist Maurits Cornelis ESCHER.
Thanks to this editorial staff there has been a press conference at Avellino which has given good interests to the mass media.

Anna Paternostro
Presidente Nazionale Associazione
“Amici della Polizia” e componente
Redazione”il Giornale di Polizia”