Your quilt squares are definitely not tacky. They are quite lovely in fact and I'm sure your mother will appreciate them.
St Kilda looks such a wild place. I assume you visited the island on your cruise. Stephen would have loved it but would not have appreciated the locals killing the puffins for snacks and eating the gannets or horror of horrors killing the Great Auk. But then the islanders obviously had very few food sources. I've seen a cruise of the isles featured in a brochure by a tour company that specialises in adventure and nature cruises and am so tempted to go. They also have an outrageously expensive cruise to places like Tristan da Cunha and St Helena and other very rarely visited islands in the South Atlantic and tours to Kamchatka. From the pictures of Kamchatka I could imagine if Stephen could have visited there he would be in seventh heaven. *g*
And oh, all the amazing ancient archeological things we saw! I saw my first souterrain on St. Kilda, and I got to crawl inside! It's an iron age Celtic underground stone passage. They're not sure what they were used for. I also got to see a newly discovered... cavity thing, hollowed out from the rock, which was also very ancient and unknown. OH I WANT TO GO BACK.
I love the Hebrides, particularly the Outer Hebrides....we camped there in the summer and slept in ruined blackhouses and saw fantastic wildlife and it was So. Much. Love.
I love crawling into souterrains and creeps and fougous and anything else undergroundy. Must be the snake in me.... *reminds self to find pics of him entombed at Kilmartin*
Easy travelling? Ahahahahahah! I can get to the *States* quicker than I can get to the Outer Hebrides....
If you go to the Isle of Lewis and stay in the youth hostel there, it's in the blackhouse village and you get to stay in the blackhouses. They didn't have any room when we were there, so we camped in one of the ruined blackhouses just outside the village and used their facilities.
Oh cool, I remember reading about that. I stayed in the Isle of Lewis, but it was with my parents and in a nicer place than I normally would have stayed. It was in Uig, a place called the Bonaventure where the most amazing French chef and his wife ran the place and cooked such delicious meals...!
If it takes you X amount of time to get to the states, but Y amount of time to get to the Hebrides, and Y > X, it's still going to be faster for you to travel X OR Y than it will be for me to travel X+Y.
St Kilda looks such a wild place. I assume you visited the island on your cruise. Stephen would have loved it but would not have appreciated the locals killing the puffins for snacks and eating the gannets or horror of horrors killing the Great Auk. But then the islanders obviously had very few food sources. I've seen a cruise of the isles featured in a brochure by a tour company that specialises in adventure and nature cruises and am so tempted to go. They also have an outrageously expensive cruise to places like Tristan da Cunha and St Helena and other very rarely visited islands in the South Atlantic and tours to Kamchatka. From the pictures of Kamchatka I could imagine if Stephen could have visited there he would be in seventh heaven. *g*
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I love crawling into souterrains and creeps and fougous and anything else undergroundy. Must be the snake in me.... *reminds self to find pics of him entombed at Kilmartin*
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In the Orkneys, I got to go inside the most amazing underground chambered cairn!
You don't know how lucky you are, having all this stuff right there in your little home country, within easy traveling distance. *glares*
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If you go to the Isle of Lewis and stay in the youth hostel there, it's in the blackhouse village and you get to stay in the blackhouses. They didn't have any room when we were there, so we camped in one of the ruined blackhouses just outside the village and used their facilities.
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I am not mollified. That's still a lot quicker than I can get there!
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