Scotland
(One lucky person will be chosen at random to win a comic novel about Christmas. See below. Must act before Tuesday, January 10, 3:00 a.m.) Music Monday by Kerry Dexter Destination: Scotland Music: Acquaintance, by Jim Malcolm (Beltane Records) There’s a statue of him in Canberra and a town named after him in Oregon, his [...]
We’re kicking off this month’s Contributor’s week by interviewing my friend Kerry Dexter. She’s your friend, too, if you read A Traveler’s Library Great American Road Trip last year, because she provided the musical accompaniment for each and every place we visited. I enjoyed that partnership with Kerry so much and also am always delighted [...]
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Cultural Travel Tuesday Destination: Scotland Inspiration: Museum at Culloden Visitor’s Center By Dr. Jessie Voigts Imagine the moors of the Scottish Highlands – it’s a rainy, misty day, with a bit of a chill in the air. The sunken bogs are wreathed in fog, and human noise is eerily absent – just a raven’s caw [...]
Destination: Scotland Book: Scottish Miscellany: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Scotland the Brave by Jonathan Green (2010) A GUEST POST by Kerry Dexter
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Destination: Ireland and Scotland A GUEST POST by Jessie Vogts Jessie writes: For our upcoming trip to Ireland and Scotland, I contacted several of my favorite travel writers and asked them for their top tips. Here are Favorite Books about Ireland and Scotland.
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Destination: Scotland Musical Album: Adoon Winding Nith (Whitefall Records) recorded by Emily Smith and Jamie McClennan A GUEST POST by Kerry Dexter
Destination: Scotland Movie: Braveheart Chasing Mel A Guest Post by Julie Sturgeon My husband is the one who chose to see the newly opened movie Braveheart that weekend in May 1995, and I went along knowing absolutely nothing about the story other than it was a Mel Gibson film. With looks like that, he could [...]
Destination: Scotland Music: Eddi Reader Sings Robert Burns (Eddi Reader) and Cuilidh, (Julie Fowlis) When I travel to a place, I frequently buy music along the way, and when I get home, the music takes me back. I like to put New Orleans jazz on while I’m writing, or listen to bouzoukis when I’m writing [...]
Destination: Scotland Authors: Ian Rankin and Alexander McCall Smith Nope, we’re not talking Loch Ness Monster here. Some readers recommended some good mysteries for the traveler to read on the way to Scotland. The British Isles seem to produce enormous numbers of mystery writers. But although Agatha Christie may have been the mother of the [...]
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