Tour Scotland Photograph Video Holy Blood Aisle St Giles Cathedral Royal Mile Edinburgh

Tour Scotland photograph of the Holy Blood Aisle in St Giles Cathedral on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, Scotland. In the Holy Blood Aisle you can light a candle and also write a request for prayer. The cathedral is named St. Giles after a sixth century Frenchman who became the patron saint of cripples and had many churches dedicated to him during the middle ages. He gained this patronage whilst living in a wood where he was friends with all the animals. One day a deer who had been shot by the King came running to him and he protected it.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Fortune Tellers Royal Mile Festival Fringe Edinburgh

Tour Scotland photograph of Fortune Tellers on the Royal Mile at the Festival Fringe in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Squirrel Royal Mile Festival Fringe Edinburgh

Tour Scotland photograph of a Squirrel on the Royal Mile at the Festival Fringe in Edinburgh, Scotland. Squirrel Party is one of the shows this year at the Festival Fringe in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Photograph David Hume Statue Royal Mile Edinburgh

Tour Scotland photograph of the statue of David Hume on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, Scotland. On a grey, rainy afternoon someone had added some colour to the bronze atatue of David Hume. David Home was the second of two sons born to Joseph Home of Ninewells, an advocate, and his wife Katherine, née Falconer. He was born on 26 April 1711 in a tenement on the north side of the Lawnmarket in Edinburgh. Hume's father died when he was a child, just after the author's second birthday, and he was raised by his mother, who never re-married. He changed the spelling of his name in 1734, because of the fact that his surname Home, pronounced Hume, was not known in England. Throughout his life Hume, who never married, spent time occasionally at his family home at Ninewells in Berwickshire, which had belonged to his family since the sixteenth century. He became a famous Scottish philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist, who is best known today for his highly influential system of radical philosophical empiricism, skepticism, and naturalism.



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Tour Scotland Video River Tay Perth Perthshire August 11th

Tour Scotland video shot this morning of the River Tay in spate in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. I took a wee walk by the river this morning. After a second day of torrential rain, the river is now at near flooding levels.

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