Castle Urquhart on Loch Ness

The Highlands

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June 29th 2009
While Judy visited the cousins I visited the Highlands. I caught the train to Inverness where I visited the loch, predictably, and didn't see Nessie, also predictably. But it was pretty all the same. Then I headed west to Plockton, a beautiful town near Skye, where I invited myself to stay with the Macrae's, friends of family friends. I helped out in their guesthouse and ate at their restauran ... read more

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Great Britain, the dominant industrial and maritime power of the 19th century, played a leading role in developing parliamentary democracy and in advancing literature and science. At its zenith, the British Empire stretched over one-fourth of the ear... ... read more