RCAHMS (that's the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historic Monuments of Scotland) are having a celebration. Not a celebration with a mobile disco and draught Stella, but one more focused on Scotland's past, and their library of historical images.
You still have time to vote for your favourite image of the most treasured places of Scotland.
http://www.treasuredplaces.org.uk/index.php
The winning image will be celebrated by a poem written by Valerie Gillies.
(It will then taken on an all inclusive cruise to the Cayman Islands, where it will meet other images of treasured places from around the world and compete in a "one-image-takes-all" superquiz for the grand prize of one night with Bryan Ferry.)
I would have posted this sooner, but I've been REALLY busy. There are some interesting images here, especially the Rosslyn Chapel one, which everyone should vote for.
You still have time to vote for your favourite image of the most treasured places of Scotland.
http://www.treasuredplaces.org.uk/index.php
The winning image will be celebrated by a poem written by Valerie Gillies.
(It will then taken on an all inclusive cruise to the Cayman Islands, where it will meet other images of treasured places from around the world and compete in a "one-image-takes-all" superquiz for the grand prize of one night with Bryan Ferry.)
I would have posted this sooner, but I've been REALLY busy. There are some interesting images here, especially the Rosslyn Chapel one, which everyone should vote for.
posted by Alan Campbell | 5:06 PM
5 Comments:
I quite like the Scapa Flow one because it reminds me of being stuck there in a boat on a sandbank a few years ago. In fact, many of the photos bring back memories of travels in Scotland. I lived in Edinburgh for a while (Dalry), and worked in the waxworks museum off Princes Street. I made good use of the location to take a nosey around.
Skara Brae had a great atmosphere, very ghostly, almost ‘otherworldly’. Iona Abbey is also beautiful as is all of Mull and the isle, lovely white sand beaches.
Hmm, food for thought. Not sure which to vote for! (not been to Rosslyn but would love to go)
Voting ends Thursday!
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i've ended the book, and i wait -of course- for the next one:)
i have one question: what does the snails stand for? something symbolic?
And voting has closed -- I imagine. Hope your Scapa Flow did well Jw. Oddly enough, one of my earliest memories of holidays in Scotland is also being stuck in a boat.
"Ach, we canna move the anchor. We'll hae to swim fer it."
I think they do it deliberately so you never forget the place.
Cheers for the comment, Advent Child. The snails were only snails -- and maybe the seeds of a small rebellion.
Lol Alan! I think my most memorable moment of Scotland is someone in a bar telling me they'd like to throw me back over Hadrian's Wall. Nothing personal. Think it was just the fact I was English! ;)
Beautiful country though.
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