Dùn Ad – fort on the [river] Add Discover the Gaelic Kingdom of Dál Riata and the royal centre of Dunadd – a stunningly beautiful hill fort in modern day Argyll, where a footprint in the rock marks the inaugural spot where the Gaelic kings were symbolically married to the land they were to rule […]
I finally arrived at my stop for the night, a lovely Airbnb room in Bellanoch, right at the Crinan Canal. After all these hours behind the wheel, I was up for a walk and my host recommended me to walk along the canal towards Crinan. The canal opened in 1801 and is about 9 miles […]
Auchindrain lies near Inverary in the Scottish Argyll and Bute – it´s only crofting township that has survived substantially unaltered and serves as a museum today. There used to be hundreds of these settlements in the Scottish Highlands before the Highland Clearances of the late 18th and 19th centuries. The first documentation of Auchindrain dates from the early 16th hundred […]