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SCOTS Issue 42


This month we discover:

Arctic Meltdown

Canadian oceanographer Dr Robie Macdonald has just returned from a search expedition that has uncovered dramatic new evidence of the rapid meltdown in the once permanent Arctic pack ice.

Holyrood Park , Battle of the bulge, childhood obesity, The  Gathering 2009, Scottish Ballet, Glasgow - Scotland's city of culture.

 

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Some articles we love from SCOTS Heritage Magazine back issues:

Urquhart Castle


Saint Columba’s biographer, Adomnan, who died in 597, relates that Columba travelled from his home in Celtic Dalriada, in the west of Scotland, to visit Brude, a Pictish king whose residence was beside the River Ness. During the course of the trip,

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Culloden House


On a black mid-winter’s night with wet snow swirling in a bitter wind, a Highland traveller looks with some anxiety for signs of a welcoming hostelry – winking lights, a whiff of wood-smoke perhaps – but, in all the Highlands these are, at that time of year, so very few and far between. Culloden House is an honourable exception.

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Castle of Mey Gardens


The honey-coloured battlements of the Castle of Mey command the turbulent waters of the Pentland Firth, one of the wildest, wettest, most wind-blasted coasts in all of Scotland. The high hills of Hoy lie due north across the fi rth and on a rare fi ne day it’s possible to see beyond the islands of Stroma and Swona, all the way to South Ronaldsay, the eastern guardian of Orkney’s Scapa Flow.

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Loch Ness


A fine, powdery, spring snow had fallen right across the Highlands the day before I called upon Katherine Stewart, but by the time we settled down to talk, the sun was shining brightly in a clear, pale blue sky and the crystalline ice was beginning to melt and run in tiny rivulets. Mrs Stewart looked at the melt-water seeping away and observed that not long ago, on the steep and rugged hills that rear up sharply on either side of Loch Ness, she would have been watching a much more dramatic scene.

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Morar Highlands


Beyond Fort William, on the road to the Isles, lies Morar, the “Highlands of the Highlands” and centre of the Rough Bounds, that wild, desolate, but uniquely beautiful part of Scotland that was once the homeland of the MacDonalds of Clanranald. It is a landscape of extraordinary incidents and remarkable characters, from mysterious loch monsters to fugitive princes, to lords, priests and smugglers as well as the ordinary people who have made this part of Scotland their home for countless generations. Text by Hugh Cheape.

 

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