I’ve got a personal quote that I repeat to myself everytime that a journey ends. If you want to travel again, you have to come back home first. And then plan another trip! So, this is the last post about our Highlands road-trip and I decided to dedicate it to my favorite spot in Edinburgh … More Arthur’s Seat and Farewell to Scotland
According to Wikipedia, The Edinburgh Festival Fringe – aka The Fringe – is the world’s largest arts festival, with the 2015 event spanning 25 days and featuring over 3,314 shows from 49 countries in 313 venues. We have been so lucky to stay for almost three days in Edinburgh while The Fringe was taking place … More The Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Edinburgh has been the last stop-over of our far and wide journey in Scotland. I immediately fell in love with this city as soon as I discovered that we were there during the very famous Fringe Festival: this is an international festival for street and circus artists, and it takes place in the meantime of … More 2 days in Edinburgh
It’s been a long time since my last post about our summer 2015 journey in Scotland. Then, where were we? I suspended the story at Inveraray, when we were travelling from Islay to Glasgow. Why Glasgow? Why we didn’t go to Edinburgh immediately? Some people told me that Glasgow isn’t a place that doesn’t deserve … More Glasgow, The Necropolis and The Rosslyn Chapel
We said goodbye to Islay on a beautiful, sunny day. In the early morning the sun’s caress over the barley fields around our guesthous was so beautiful that I desired to have more time to spend there. I thank the universe with a huge namasté before leaving Skerrols House. The sea crossing from Port Ellen … More Good bye to Islay + Inveraray
Brace yourselves: a long, long, long post is coming. Now that you are aware of that, let’s start from the beginning. When we planned this journey we booked a tasting tour only for Caol Ila and Laphroaig distilleries. But when we arrived at Islay and we find out that the Bruichladdich one was interesting too, … More Distilleries of Islay (pt.2)
Islay is one of five whisky distilling localities and regions in Scotland whose identity is protected by law. There are eight active distilleries: Ardbeg, Lagavulin and Laphroaig on the southern part of the island. Bowmore, Bruichladdich, Caol Ila, Bunnahabhain and Kilchoman are placed on the northern part of Islay. We luckily had the chance to … More Distilleries of Islay (pt.1)
It is well known that it’s a long way to the top if you wanna rock’n’roll. Rewording AC/DC I’d dare to say: it’s a long way to Islay if you come from Skye. It takes almost 4 hours to travel by car from Skye to Oban. Then it takes another one hour and an half … More The Long Road To Islay
After the hike to the Storr in the morning we proceeded to the west coast of Skye in order to reach Neist Point, a very famous scenic view of the ocean with the western Hebrides islands from a promontory ad an old lighthouse. Neist Point is a must-see place of Skye, as you easily understand … More Neist Point and Goodbye to Skye
I was dreaming of visiting the Old Man of Storr since the first time I saw Stardust movie in 2007 and when I started to plan this journey I couldn’t help to save some time to go hiking to these amazing mountains. It was a foggy and cloudy morning, and we could’t see the top … More The Old Man of Storr
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