I got an all day city bus pass and headed out to Broughty Castle situated on the mouth of the Tay.  Built in 1496 and rebuilt in the 1860’s it must have been formidable. Whilst walking around the town of Broughty Ferry where the Tay was crossed before bridges, I found Oor Wullie in his […]

Tired from the overnight ferry and train from Aberdeen and slogging my kit up some of the steepest streets I’ve seen outside Glasgow, I spent sometime getting to know Kate, my AirBnB hostess and then set out to learn the neighborhood where I’d be staying for a week. A sudden hard downpour forced me into […]

Today I decided to take the bus to the southern most point of the Shetland Mainland island where Sumburgh Airport is.  This is one of the few places on the island big enough and flat enough to land planes. There was a couple of hours before the next bus so I decided to take a […]

The Museum wasn’t open yet when I came upon it but even from the outside I could see it would be worth coming back to later. The signs faded but basically the 4 speakers play songs and conversational recordings that vary with the wind speed.  I wish I had the skill to add audio/video to […]