There are a few people who follow my blog for the monthly “3 Things” updates. There are others who just want vacation pics. This is for the latter group. It’s just photos from our summer 2025 excursion.
Hougun is the historic name for the area on the Northern shore of Morecambe Bay which, in the early 11th Century, was held by Tostig Godwinson, brother of King Harold II (Battle of Hastings, 1066, Norman conquest etc.)
Caledonia is the Roman, also a contemporary poetic, name for the Scotland. Derived from Calēdonēs.
Thule is an ancient Greek/Roman name for a semi-mythical land thought to pertain to the islands north of the Scottish mainland.
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Grange-Over-Sands
First stop – Grange-over-Sands on Morecambe Bay in Cumbria.
The Inn at Whitewell
Izzy’s family was staying in the Ribble Valley, which is not far from our base in Grange-over-Sands. So we met up for lunch.
Vale of Leven
Craig and I brought our parents ashes back to the part of Scotland where they came from. We were joined by my cousin Carol and her family.
Oban
Next stop – Oban, on Scotland’s west coast.
Orkney
The group dwindled back to just HVW and me. We headed to the Orkney islands.
Edinburgh
Final stop: Edinburgh.
The header picture was taken at the National Museum of Scotland, in Edinburgh. It’s the “Declaration of Arbroath”; The Museum describes it as “an appeal for freedom in the face of conquest by England. The ‘Letter of the Barons of Scotland’ to Pope John XXII, dated at Arbroath on 6 April 1320, was a declaration in the name of the ‘whole community of the Realm’ of their determination to maintain the independence of Scotland and to support King Robert Bruce.”
