June 2009

Clava Cairns: A place out of time

19 June 2009

Near Inverness, hidden away and difficult to find,  is a neolithic burial site known as the Clava Cairns. Located close to Culloden battlefield, it is bypassed by the many visitors heading for the more famous location. This is just as well. Clava is a place that should be experienced  in quiet solitude. The atmosphere is [...]

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Politically Incorrect Food

6 June 2009

Breakfast this morning was a slice of Galia melon and a bowl of muesli with milk. It wasn’t as nice as it should have been. The melon was ripe and juicy but at the same time strangely grainy and without much flavour. Not at all the crisp and refreshing sweetness that I associate with melon. [...]

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You Have to Start Somewhere

2 June 2009

This is the very first post in my very new blog. I was hoping to do this yesterday. June 1 is my birthday and if I had done it then,  my blog and I would have the same birthday and that would be somehow meaningful and aproppriate. It didn’t happen that way. Events and ongoing [...]

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