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Stornoway harbour  
   

Stornoway harbour

view from Lews Castle
Last landfall before Greenland / Newfoundland, etc. (well, nearly)

May 17th 2006
A little known fact about my family is that the three brothers, of which my father was the oldest surviving, went in very different directions. OK, so you could say that being a solicitor in Edinburgh (my father) is not a million miles away from being an academic lawyer at Cambridge (my younger uncle), but - to my mind - the most interesting brother and his family ended up on the Isle of Lewis wh ... read more
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