Winter Snow Drive On Single Track Road With Music On Visit To Highlands Of Scotland

Tour Scotland 4K Winter travel video of a road trip drive in snow, before Christmas, on a single track road, with Scottish music, on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to Glen Lyon in the Central Highlands, Britain, United Kingdom. Some parts of the road are very narrow with potholes and cracks, and don't forget the bends and twists. This road is only wide enough for one vehicle. It has special passing places. If you see a vehicle coming towards you, or the driver behind wants to overtake, try to pull into a passing place on your left, or wait opposite a passing place on your right. Give way to vehicles coming uphill whenever you can. If necessary, reverse until you reach a passing place to let the other vehicle pass. Quite densely inhabited from prehistoric times, as many archaeological sites attest) though its present population is of modest size, the glen has been home to many Clans, including MacGregor, Lyons, Menzies, Stewart, Macnaughtan, MacGibbon and the Campbells of Glen Lyon. At the end of the eleventh century the de Leons, later shortened to Lyon had come north with Edgar, son of King Malcolm III of Scotland to fight against his uncle, Donald Bane. Edgar was victorious and the de Leons received lands that were later called Glen Lyon in Perthshire. Glen Lyon is a corruption from the Gaelic " lithe " meaning " flood ", a frequent state of the River Lyon. Robert Campbell of Glenlyon, born 1630, died 1696, led the detachment of government troops responsible for the infamous Glencoe Massacre, of the MacDonalds of Glencoe in 1691. Glen Lyon, also written Glenlyon, has been the home of , among others, early Christian monks, including Adomnán locally known as Eonán who died in 704, Abbot of Iona and biographer of Saint Columba. By the meteorological calendar, the first day of Winter is always 1st December in Scotland; ending on 28th of February. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day. Find things to see and do in Scotland where you are always welcome. When driving on Scottish roads in Scotland slow down and enjoy the trip All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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