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 a river otter eating a flatfish in Scotland. Scottish otters live mainly on a diet of fish including eels, salmon and trout, but also often eat crabs, frogs and occasionally small mammals and birds. They live beside the sea or by fresh waters such as rivers, lochs and marshes, but coastal otters must wash their fur regularly in fresh water to maintain its waterproofing quality.
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Tour Scotland photograph of Millionaire's Shortbread in a cafe in Scone by Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. This popular Scottish shortbread consists of three delicious layers; a buttery shortbread, a smooth caramel, and a shiny layer of melted chocolate.
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Tour Scotland Piper To the End video. Mark Knopfler together with Phil Cunningham performs a nice and simple version of the excellent song Piper to the End.
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Tour Scotland Uig Isle Of Lewis video. Uig is located on the western coast of the island of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland. The name derives from the Norse word Vik meaning 'a bay'. Uig Beach is surrounded by the villages of Crowlista, Timdgarry, Ardroil and Carnish. It is best known as the site where the Lewis Chessmen were found. Before 1831, a local crofter discovered a buried hoard of chess pieces, uncovered following a storm.
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Tour Scotland The Other side of Sorrow video. The beautiful sound of Alasdair Fraser on the fiddle, and the haunting poetry of Sorley MacLean. Skye and its smaller neighbours that make up the Inner Hebrides are known for their wild, beautiful landscapes of deep lochs and jagged mountains.
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Who is this, who is this on a bad night, who is this walking on the moorland? The steps of a spirit by my side and the soft steps of my love:
footsteps, footsteps on the mountains, murmur of footsteps rising, quiet footsteps, gentle footsteps, stealthy mild restrained footsteps.
Who is this, who is this on a night of woe, who is this walking on the summit? The ghost of a bare naked brain cold in the chill of vicissitude.
Who is this, who is this in the night of the spirit? It is only the naked ghost of a heart, a spectre going alone in thought, a skeleton naked of flesh on the mountain.
Who is this, who is this in the night of the heart? It is the thing that is not reached, the ghost seen by the soul, A Cuillin rising over the sea.
Who is this, who is this in the night of the soul, following the veering of the fugitive light? It is only, it is only the journeying one seeking the Cuillin over the ocean.
Who is this, who is this in the night of mankind? It is only the ghost of the spirit, a soul alone going on mountains, longing for the Cuillin that is rising.
Beyond the lochs of the blood of the children of men, beyond the frailty of the plain and the labour of the mountain, beyond poverty, consumption, fever, agony, beyond hardship, wrong, tyranny, distress, beyond misery, despair, hatred, treachery, beyond guilt and defilement; watchful, heroic, the Cuillin is seen rising on the other side of sorrow.
