The beach in Aberdeenshire

My head hurts...

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October 1st 2007
After leaving Edinburgh on Wednesday we drove north to Aberdeenshire and spent a couple of days chilling out in the Scottish countryside. We stayed with Andrew and Debbie booth on their farm and had a great time. It really is a beautiful part of the world up there - very rugged and a lot like parts of NZ. We left Scotland on Saturday and caught the ferry to Belfast where we had a brief stop-ove ... read more

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Celtic tribes arrived on the island between 600-150 B.C. Invasions by Norsemen that began in the late 8th century were finally ended when King Brian BORU defeated the Danes in 1014. English invasions began in the 12th century and set off more than se... ... read more