Old Travel Blog Photograph Vintage Car And Cyclist On Road By Loch Eilt Scotland

Old photograph of a vintage car and cyclist on the road Loch Eilt located between the villages of Glenfinnan and Lochailort, twenty miles West of Fort William, Scotland. The A830 road to the Isles runs along the North shore, while the West Highland Line railway follows the South shore. Loch Eilt has been used as a location in several films. These include Local Hero in 1980, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban in 2004 and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 in 2010. The famous island used for Harry Potter in Loch Eilt, is called Eilean na Moine. It is used as Dumbledore's grave, which and later, was digitally placed on Loch Arkaig.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Road By Loch Katrine Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of the road by Loch Katrine in the Trossachs of Scotland. Loch Katrine a popular destination for tourists and day visitors from Glasgow and other nearby towns. The loch derives its name from the term cateran from the Gaelic ceathairne, a collective word meaning cattle thief. Historically this referred to a band of fighting men of a clan; hence the term applied to marauders or cattle thieves, the most notorious of whom was Rob Roy MacGregor who was born at Glengyle House at the northern end of the Loch.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Road By Loch Awe Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of the road by Loch Awe, Argyll, Scotland. Loch Awe is renowned for its trout fishing. Salmon pass through the loch, coming past the barrage in the River Awe and continuing into the River Orchy. Loch Awe contains several ruined castles on islands, and at the northern end has one of the most photographed castles in Scotland, Kilchurn Castle, which in summer may be visited by a short boat trip or by a half mile walk from a small car park just after the bridge over the River Orchy.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Loch Maree Wester Ross Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of Loch Maree, Wester Ross, Scotland. The waters of this Scottish loch were thought to have curative effects, with being submerged in the water thought to be a cure for lunacy. It has has its own monster in the form of the muc-sheilch. The loch is often referred to as the most beautiful loch in the Highlands. Wester Ross is featured in the lyrics to the song Letter from America by The Proclaimers, and Kishorn Commandos by North Sea Gas, which relate the wild lifestyle of construction workers on the Ninian Central Platform in Kishorn. Many other songs refer to or are named after areas, geographical features and villages of Wester Ross, notably Loch Maree Islands, which has been recorded by many artists including Calum Kennedy. Major outdoor scenes in the films Stardust and The Eagle of the Ninth were shot in Wester Ross. Wester Ross is the location for the adventures of John Macnab in the book by John Buchan.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph River Morar Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of the River Morar, a river that flows from Loch Morar in the West Highlands of Scotland. It flows from the western end of the loch to the estuary of Morar Bay, an inlet of the Sound of Sleat. At less than one mile in length, at high tide, the River Morar is one of the shortest rivers in Scotland. The river is crossed by three bridges: one carrying the A830 trunk road, an older bridge for the B8008 road, and one for the West Highland Line railway. The railway viaduct dates from 1897. The River Morar is the boundary between the parishes of Glenelg, to the North and Arisaig and Moidart, to the South.



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