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November 11, 2002
Scotland Stones

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Another view of Brodgar..Alaura and i spent 2 weeks this summer driving around Scotland...its was spectacular..our main focus was to visit some neolithic sites we had always wanted to go to...i was dragging around about 100lbs of camera gear and alaura dragged around about 2lbs of water-color painting gear (what am i doing!)...we went thru the lakes district on the way up which was postcard beautiful every turn of the road..we went to the important stone circle of Castlerigg in the lakes district(we have always wanted to go here because we have a beautifil painting of Castlerigg hanging in our lounge room by the incredible artist Monica Sjoo - author of some important works on the stone sites).

We then continued on thru the amazing Kilmartin Valley...a neolithic wonderland!! i took a bunch of photos at Temple Wood stone cirlce and also at Ballyneigh (4 large menhirs in a row)..we then drove over to the isle of Skye (there's a bridge connecting it to the mainland)...not alot neolithic there but majestic views all around and puffins if youre there at the right time of the year (which we were'nt).

Then put our rental car on a ferry and over to the Isle of Lewis and Harris..One word..Callanish!!..oh my god..in the past Alaura and I have had a private entrance to Stonehenge where we had the whole site to ourselves for 2hrs after it was closed to the public but that was nothing compared to the majestic stone circle of Callanish on the isle of Lewis..i think about this place every single day now...i want to be buried there..its funny because my family on my mothers side is the McLeod clan and the isle of Lewis and Harris is the ancestral home of the McLeod's...it may well have been some of my ancestors that built Callanish!! i'll post pictures soon...I'm going back there next year to photograph this place again, every square inch of it next time (i only photographed about every 2nd inch this time).

We then ferried over to the Orkneys..Brodgar, the Stones of Stenness, Maes Howe, Skara Brae. Then back down all the way to London...Clava cairns on the way down too...Be stoned..its good for you!

Posted by andy at November 11, 2002 01:02 PM
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