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We rode the Jacobite Steam train when in Scotland. This train was made famous by the Harry Potter movies, where it was featured as “The Hogwarts Express”. In fact, the train was featured in TWO of the Harry Potter movies, the first, “Harry Potter and …
The Isle of Skye has has been occupied in prehistoric times and was originally settled by the Gaelic-speaking Scots from Ireland during the first centuries BC. Norsemen ruled the island from the 9th to the 12th century. More “recent” history sees the island as the …
A Tale of two Scottish Clans My mother was Scottish and could trace her ancestry back to the Campbells of Breadalbane. If I recall correctly it was her grandmother’s grandmother who was the daughter of the Earl of Campbell (so 5 or 6 generations back). …