View from our room

Day 5 - Tain to Portree

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October 21st 2014
Today's travels are courtesy of the EX- hurricane Ganzalo. Another new phrase from the UK. Extreme high winds with rain, sleet and hail. Temps dropped from 17 down to 4. Very unusual for this area. After a breakfast of poached eggs & haggis we left the Morangie area and went to look for The Old Nigg Church. I had found this on the Historic Scotland website. It is signifigant because of it's ... 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