After a day of strolling around Glasgow I picked up my rental car and started driving towards Oban for my first ferry – but already had planned to stop at The Hill House in Helensburgh near Glasgow. Commissioned by Glasgow book publisher Walter Blackie, up-and-coming architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh and artist Margaret Macdonald worked collaboratively […]
The Gearrannan Blackhouse village was definitely high on my must-visit list and after seeing the blackhouses in Arnol, I wanted more and spent the rest of the day at the Gearrannan village near Carloway. This settlement of blackhouses facing the Atlantic gives us an impression of how life was in Lewis. “Modern life” is compared […]
The view from my Airbnb in Naples never let me down! The next morning I woke up, had some coffee and made my way through the Quarteri Spagnoli in direction of the Castel Nuovo. From there I wanted to take a bus up to the Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte. My favourite fruttivendolo just […]