Eileen Donan Castle

Sept 13/11

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September 13th 2011
Today we headed for the Isle of Skye. The trip there was amazing. From the bus you’re looking up 3-4000 feet to the top of a mountain covered in great foliage, when you round another corner and there’s one even taller. It was still raining so where there is a little crevice in the face of the mountain, today it was a white streak following gravity downward. Where these cracks come together ... 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