There was once a house, November 2011

Stockholm

Djurgården

Biologiska Muséet / Biological Museum, Djurgården

Nordiska Muséet / Djurgårdsvägen

Takutsmyckning på Riddarhuset. Minerva och en av fyra obelisker som byggdes för att fungera som skorstenar. Dessa byggdes av bildhuggaren Johan Baptista Dusart

The House of Nobility

Stockholm in November

M/S Viking Cinderella

Giraffes of Edinburgh

The two giraffes are made of scrap metal and old motorbikes and bits of cars by the artist, Helen Dennerly. They stand outside the Omni Centre. The giraffes official title is “Dreaming Spires” but they have been nicknamed Martha and Gilbert. The sculpture was unveiled in July 2005.

...and then we left Scotland and Edinburgh behind us and we went back home

Loch Ness & The Highlands of Scotland in 12 hours

We went on a 12-hour bustour to LochNess & the Highlands of Scotland with Gray Line


Hamish, the Highland Cow

 Highland Cows are born and bred to deal with the extreme weather conditions of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. They are very hardy, but very gentle in nature.
Archaeological evidence places Highland cattle back in the 6th century. They are the oldest pedigree breed in the world and the Highland cattle Societies first herd dates to 1884.

Bidean nam Bian
The Three Sisters of Glen Coe are three steeply-sided ridges that extend north into the Glen.

Busstop at Pass of Glen Coe.

Cruise Loch Ness



Waiting for a cruise on Loch Ness.



On board and it's raining, but that doesn't matters because we have the right clothing...



Loch Ness



On the bus again, and a quick view of a mountain somewhere in the Highlands of  Scotland...

Urquhart Castle

The Writers' Museum

Writers' Museum

Greyfriars Bobby

Greyfriars Bobby

 Bobby, a Skye terrrier, belonged to an Edinburgh policeman, Jock Gray, who was buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard in 1858. Loyal to the last, Bobby refused to leave his side and kept constant vigil by his master's grave. He was adopted by the locals, became an Edinburgh folk hero, and when he died 14 years later, special dispensation was given for Bobby to be buried alongside Jock.

Bobby's grave

The real Greyfriars Bobby on a picture in Bobby's Bar

Edinburgh



A Split Personality, Deacon William Brodie

When Robert Louis Stevenson wrote The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde in 1886, it shocked genteel society. Little did people realise that although he set the book in London, he had based his story on the reallife case of an Edinburgh man. Deacon William Brodie was a respecable cabinetmaker and locksmith who, when he closed his shop in the evening, lived another life. After dark he frequented the less prepectable parts of the town - gambling, cockfighting and fathering five illegitimate children. He funded this lifestyle by stealing from his respectable customers, taking copies of the keys of cabinets and strongboxes sold in his shop and creeping into their houses to relieve them of their valualbles.
Deacon Brodie was caught in the act in 1788 and was hanged in front of a huge crowd.
(Berlitz Edinburgh pocket guide)
 

Fudge

Robert Fergusson, Scots Poet. Born in Edinburgh 1750. Died in Bedlam 1774