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Dec 02, 2014 01:25PM
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You choose a picture of St Kilda. ♥I am happy for you that you will go to Scotland in May. Where will you go to?
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I am happy for you that you will go to Scotland in May. Where will you go to?"
I am staying with friends in Markinch, Glenrothes and we will be doing a pretty comprehensive tour of Scotland while I am there. They have very ambitious plans for me to get a really good flavor of the country. I will also be staying a couple days on the west coast with another friend. We'll be spending a few days up in the Aberdeen/Inverness area too. Leakey's Book Shop in Inverness is a must! No travels to the islands this year though or St. Kilda:( Logistics just too difficult. Saving for another trip!
I will take my parents next year. We want to show them the places we loved best. I had two routes planned (Edinburgh - St Andrew's - Inverness - Oban - Edinburgh and Oban - Skye - Harris/Lewis - Skye - Edinburgh) and they decided on the second one. Where will you stay on the west coast?
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Oban and Girvan. We will do day trips to Glasgow but I don't think I'll be staying over there. A friend lives in Girvan and I will be there one night and then Oban to sail and stay a night or two. I doubt I will want to come home!
I am sure you will enjoy your time there. We booked the ferry now. First time on an overnight ferry and my first time on a ferry to Scotland. We could be there in 2 hours from Munich airport but my parents can not fly so we go by car this year.
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We booked the ferry now. First time on an overnight ferry and my first time on a ferry to Scotland. We could be there in 2 hours from Munich airport but ..."
Overnight Ferry sounds like a grand adventure! Your lucky you are so much closer to Scotland than I am. The airfare is quite expensive from here! Thank goodness my husband is not going, two plane tickets would eat up the whole budget!
I am really lucky with living so close and I am very grateful for this. I am so happy for you that you can go next year and I hope for you that you have a wonderful time.
Then I was 13 I was on a language school trip to London and I stayed with a family in North London. The mother was Scottish and I remember thinking that I would have left Scotland immediately given the chance to live in London. Who wants to live in Scotland? I could not imagine to ever go there.
And then I grew up and met a man and he loved Scotland. So slowly my mind was changed.
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http://www.celticlifeintl.com/celtic-...
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Val McDermid (@valmcdermid) tweeted at 8:51 AM on Tue, Jan 20, 2015:Exciting new talent - winners of the @scottishbktrust New Writers Awards. Good luck to all of them. http://t.co/7aYnQqLDyL
(https://twitter.com/valmcdermid/statu...)
Thanks to this site, I read the following book last year. I don't agree with the conclusion but enjoyed it.http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...
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http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-t......"
Interesting article, Kirk. I didn't know that part about the woman having the 'feeling' when she walked over the parking lot being the catalyst to get it dug up. I have Daughter of Time but have yet to read it.
Was thinking how poorly I'd done on reading any of the top 50 books but then I got to number 50. Just finished reading 'Buddha Da' as wanted to see whether possibility for teaching pupils.
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A lad from my blog group just read Buddha Da too.
Took me a wee while to get into as, at times, quite broad Glaswegian dialect. Think might read 'The Magic Flute' next.
About a 10 minute radio interview with Alexander McCall Smith about his version of Emma as part of the Modern Jane Austen Project. http://wamc.org/post/emma-modern-rete...
Just a heads up, we're running a Goodreads giveaway for Fishnet by Kirstin Innes. Follow the link below to enter - we're offering five copies. 
Twenty year old Rona Leonard walks out of her sister Fiona’s flat and disappears.
Six years on, worn down by a tedious job, child care and the aching absence in her life, Fiona’s mundane existence is blown apart by the revelation that, before she disappeared, Rona had been working as a prostitute. Driven to discover the truth, Fiona embarks on an obsessive quest to investigate the sex industry. As she is drawn into a complex world, Fiona makes shocking discoveries that challenge everything she believed, and will ultimately change her life forever.
Fiona discovers her missing sister had been working as a prostitute.
'Fishnet, a passionate and politically-charged book about family ties set against the backdrop of the Scottish sex industry, is easily the best thing I have read so far this year.' Last Year's Girl Blog
https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sh...
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Twenty year old Rona Leonard walks out of her sis..."
Thanks for the heads up!
Freight is doing a book giveaway for folks who review their books on Goodreads (or Amazon, or your own blog). Just Tweet #FreightReview, deadline 31 May. You can win three Freight books! Gonna go back and see what Freight title's I've read... https://twitter.com/FreightBooks
I mostly read Scottish books, maybe I'm biased, being half scot and half Irish. But honestly, there are some pretty good books coming out of the country now.
