Scotland April/May 2016

  Just passed a small train station, along the building it looked like a jumble sale. Knick knacks, mannequins, cow bells, all sorts of stuff. It was not locked up. Small town charm. 

    "Famine walls" are stone walls built during the potatoe famine as a way for those better off to help the poorer ones. They worked for food. 

  Geo. Orwell wrote 1984 on island of Dewer. 

   Road sign: weak road

  Celtic cross developed on Iona to strengthen the arms of the cross.

    I feel out of place on this ferry to Staffa where Fingels cave is. The inspiration for Mendolsson's Hebrides Overtute. I played it before I went. Felt out of place  because I did not have hiking boots on or zip off cargo pants. The cave is on Staffa island, which is composed of basalt columns, some straight up, some organized in wave formations. Highly recommended. Apparently a giant tossed it over from the Giants Causeway in a fit of anger. 

   The ride from the West to Edinburgh is stunningly beautiful.