Tour Scotland photographs and videos from my tours of Scotland. Photography and videography, both old and new, from beautiful Scotland, Scottish castles, seascapes, rivers, islands, landscapes, standing stones, lochs and glens.
Photograph of the national flag of Scotland. The Flag of Scotland, also known as the Saint Andrew's Cross or more commonly The Saltire, is the national flag of Scotland. As the national flag, the Saltire differs from the Royal Standard of Scotland in that it is the Saltire which is the correct flag for all individuals and corporate bodies to fly in order to demonstrate both their loyalty and Scottish nationality.
All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.
Tour Scotland photograph of the River Coupall Falls and Buachaile Etive Mor, Glencoe, Scotland. Glencoe is the spiritual home of many a mountaineer and hill walker. Although the English author, Charles Dickens called it " perfectly terrible, an awful place, scores of glens high up, which form such haunts as you might imagine yourself wandering in, the very height and madness of a fever ", it provides some of the finest climbing and walking terrain in Scotland.
All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.
Tour Scotland Dougie MacLean Video. Live at the Perthshire Amber Festival. One of my all time favourite Scottish singer, songwriters. The song is Broken Wings. I hope you enjoy this video.
A tall tree, turn and face the west O we’re running with the wind A high cliff-top, we’re waiting with the rest For this journey to begin
CHORUS But these broken wings won’t fly These broken wings won’t fly at all
And how we laugh, but maybe we should crawl And ask to be excused We shout loudly, have answers to it all O but we have been refused CHORUS
Girl child, you’re dancing with the stream Growing with the silver trees Your young questions, you ask me what it means O but I am not at ease CHORUS
Tour Scotland Battlefield Band Video. Live in Aberdeen, Scotland. Alan Reid, Iain MacDonald, Alastair Russell and John McCuster. One of my all time favourite Scottish bands. The first song is The Dear Green Place. I hope you enjoy this video.
It was by the clear Molendinar Burn Where it meets and runs with the river Clyde And they tell the tale of the holy one Who was fishing down by the riverside A holy man, from Fife he came His name they say was Kentigern And by the spot were the fish was caught The dear green place was born
Now the salmon ran through the river stream And they salted them by the banks of Clyde And the faces glowed as the silver flowed The place arose by the riverside There was cloth to dye and hose to buy The traders came from miles around And they raised a glass to the dear green place The place that was a town
There is a town that once was green and a river flowed to the sea The river flows forever on, but the dear green place is gone
When the furnace came to fire the iron And folk were thrown from their farmland Then the irishmen and the highland men And the hungry men came with willing hands They wanted work, a place to live, their empty bellies needed filled And the farmyard was another world From the dirty overcrowded mill
Now you may have heard of the foreign trade And fortunes made by tobacco lords But the working man slaved his life away And an early grave was his sole reward A dreary room, a crowded slum, disease and hunger everywhere And the price to pay was another day To fight the anger and despair
A thousand years have been here and gone (it is gone) Since Kentigern saw the banks of Clyde (it is gone) How many dreams and how many tears (it is gone) In a thousand years of a city's life (it is gone)
It was by the clear Molendinar Burn (it is gone) Where it meets and runs with the river Clyde (it is gone) Perhaps tomorrow it yet may be (it is gone) The dear green place again (it is gone)
