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Last year’s trip to France. Royan’s stunning concrete cathedral finally open after renovations and moules frites at Rochefort
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Anytime I hear that someone is heading for Mull I always tell them make sure you see Iona and the island of Staffa. No other natural feature that I have ever seen impressed me more than a small island named by the vikings. The word Staff or long pole is a Viking word, and the long hexagonal staffs which project themselves from the sea, the product of three separate volcanic risings, are why it’s called Staffa.

It took Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdys breath away, and inspired his Hebrides overture Fingals cave, and his Scotch symphony No 3. Staffa is very much that kind of place, when I first saw it I thought that cannot be natural, and it invokes feelings that I had never experienced in my life before.
The trip from Fionphort took about an hour and we were only allowed an hour on the island. It takes about ten minutes to walk to Fingals cave, and for the keen photographers take a dedicated powerful flash gun for best results. Twice I have forgotten mine. There are puffins on the island, but we ran out of time to see them. The last trip was taken 7 years ago and it cost £30 pp, I don’t know what it costs now. But it’s well worth it to see this thing of beauty created by nature. If you chose you can be dropped of on Iona then you can then get the ferry back to Mull. The large cave on the right of the first two photos is Fingals cave and the next photos are taken looking inside and outside of it. And the couple in the last photo are strangers. And neither my photos or anyone’s photos do this place justice.
 
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Anytime I hear that someone is heading for Mull I always tell them make sure you see Iona and the island of Staffa. No other natural feature that I have ever seen impressed me more than a small island named by the vikings. The word Staff or long pole is a Viking word, and the long hexagonal staffs which project themselves from the sea, the product of three separate volcanic risings, are why it’s called Staffa.

It took Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdys breath away, and inspired his Hebrides overture Fingals cave, and his Scotch symphony No 3. Staffa is very much that kind of place, when I first saw it I thought that cannot be natural, and it invokes feelings that I had never experienced in my life before.
The trip from Fionphort took about an hour and we were only allowed an hour on the island. It takes about ten minutes to walk to Fingals cave, and for the keen photographers take a dedicated powerful flash gun for best results. Twice I have forgotten mine. There are puffins on the island, but we ran out of time to see them. The last trip was taken 7 years ago and it cost £30 pp, I don’t know what it costs now. But it’s well worth it to see this thing of beauty created by nature. If you chose you can be dropped of on Iona then you can then get the ferry back to Mull. The large cave on the right of the first two photos is Fingals cave and the next photos are taken looking inside and outside of it. And the couple in the last photo are strangers. And neither my photos or anyone’s photos do this place justice.
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Very nice. Wonderful pictures
 
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The two Buachailles in Glencoe (glen etive). The first photo is Buachaille etive mor.
The second shows both Buachailles with the wee Buachaille to the right. On photo no 4 you can see a large plateau in the distance, it’s quite distinct, that’s Ben Nevis.
Buachaille Etive mor looks harder than it actually is we ascended up to the summit, then headed round to stob na Doir,
and headed back to the start from there. If hillwalking is beyond your health or fitness. There’s a good path between both Buachailles which offers a stunning flat walk. Apologies for no photos from the summits but we are both on these photos, and my wife is not keen on me posting them online.
 
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