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A journey around Scotland: up and down the Royal Mile …

MAJA — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 22:37:46 +0000

Wednesday 5 September

Today we are leaving our cosy wigwam at Morton’s Hall Campsite and we intend to spend the whole day in the old town of Edinburgh before taking the road to Glasgow. The weather is fine. In our journey around Scotland, we look forward with much anticipation to our last day in the [...]

A journey around Scotland: from Tantallon Castle to Dunbar…

MAJA — Fri, 31 May 2013 23:15:36 +0000

Friday 4 September – Part 3: Our journey around Scotland goes on, following the A 198 in East Lothian. Today, we’ll reach Dunbar, a colourful little town by the North Sea and the native place of John Muir, a Scottish immigrant and one of the most celebrated American heroes. Another landmark on [...]

Chair in Canadian-Scottish Studies at McGill University

MAJA — Sun, 19 May 2013 00:12:33 +0000

Hi Mairiuna!

Just received “The Scots Canadian” quaterly newsletter published by the Scottish Studies Society and I’m really pleased to share good news from an article that grabbed my attention in no time flat…

‘Canadian-Scottish Studies at McGill’

Listen to this my friend: the St-Andrew’s Society of Montreal and the McEuen Scholarship Foundation are [...]

A journey around Scotland: from North Berwick to Tantallon Castle…

MAJA — Sun, 05 May 2013 21:42:42 +0000

A View of Tantallon Castle – circa 1816 – Alexander Nasmyth – Wikimedia

Tantallon screams defense. From a distance, its walls soar out of the rocky headland like a monster fortification. A single line of huge wall was all that was necessary to defend this promontory from the land. Sea cliffs fall away [...]

A journey around Scotland: from Aberlady to Dirleton Castle…

MAJA — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 00:00:19 +0000

Tuesday 4 September: from Aberlady Bay to Dirleton Castle our journey around Scotland goes on…

On our agenda today we’ve planned to follow the scenic coast road (A 198) from Edinburgh to Dunbar. Our first stop will be at Aberlady bay. [...]

A journey around Scotland: a day in the Old Town of Edinburgh

MAJA — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 22:00:31 +0000

Monday 3 September

12:00 we leave Mortonhall campsite. The place is rather empty at this hour of the day except for our little friends, the rabbits, which play around and hide below our wigwam. They must be eager to be left alone in their realm…

Highland cow in Mortonhall campsite © [...]

Innerpeffray, the first public lending library in Scotland..

MAJA — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 13:13:21 +0000

Hi everybody,

Yesterday we received this lovely message from Lara Haggerty, Library Manager & Keeper of Books at the Innerpeffray Library, in Perthshire:

Hello Janice, Mairiuna and Jean-Claude

I enjoyed reading your website and the journeys through literary Scotland and I wanted to invite [...]

A very cheerful Scottish April Fools’ Day!

MAJA — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 14:27:32 +0000

In France, at the beginning of the 20th century people used to send to their family and friends lovely romantic postcards illustrated with images of ‘poisson d’avril’. The 1st of April celebrated friendship and love. Old postcards – Source Wikimedia

Hi everybody,

WOW Janice ! You’ve whetted my appetite yesterday with your Easter [...]

How Is Easter Celebrated In Scotland?

MAJA — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 22:02:01 +0000

Happy Easter to all and may the joys of this day shine very bright upon you!

In our conversation today, Mairiuna and I were wondering how Scottish people celebrate Easter.

By curiousity, I googled the phrase: “How do the Scottish celebrate Easter?”

Answer.com came up in the search results in top position and the [...]

A journey around Scotland: roaming the New Town in Edinburgh

MAJA — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 22:36:30 +0000

Hi everybody,

Lovely as this double-decker may look like we are not going to visit Edinburgh aboard it though it might have been a solution to avoid parking and traffic problems in the city (tram works presently).

Wigwam – Mortonhall Caravan & Camping Site – [...]