Photos in the UK per AZJim's request

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Ameriscot

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I've got more than 8,000 photos just in my Flickr albums, but I promise not to post them all!

I am still charmed by the UK even after 15 years of living here. There is much more of it I still want to see.

This is the Iona Abbey on the Isle of Iona which is in my county of Argyll. The island is tiny - about 3 x 1.5 miles. It's gorgeous!

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The main village on Iona.

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Moi in London - my favourite city in the world

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Robin Hood's Bay in North Yorkshire, England - this is one of my 3 photos which were on the cover of an academic journal.

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You bet I'll post more. I have to resize them as full size of 5-7mb doesn't want to upload here. Here's a few more. Hoping Holly will post more of hers.

A Highland cow - mostly called a Heilin' coo

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A beach on the Isle of Iona


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Whitby harbour. Near Robin's Hood Bay which I already posted. North Yorkshire.


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Whitby Abbey. The Synod of Whitby was held here (in one of the previous abbeys built here) in 664. This is where they decided when Easter would be held - the Celtic way or the Roman way.

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Thanks, Pappy.

Very weird but I posted the second batch the same way as the first so I wonder why they are coming out as attachments?
 
Ladybower reservoir in Derbyshire where 'The Dambusters' practiced before flying to destroy the Ruhr dams during WW2.

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The park and pond beside the old station in Portsoy, a small port about 20 miles from me. It was once important for quarrying and exporting marble. It now hosts the Scottish ttaditional boat festival.
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Our local beach at Fraserburgh harbour.
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Ameriscot these are great and I hope you and Holly and Capt keep adding to this thread. The pictures are as nice as I thought they'd be. Thanks so much.
 
My husband poking his head out of a burial cairn in Kilmartin, Scotland. The area is packed with megalithic sites which are about 5,000 years old.

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Isle of Vatersay which is adjacent to the Isle of Barra, Outer Hebrides, Scotland

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The village of Inveraray which is about 40 miles from us. For fans of Downton Abbey a xmas episode was filmed at the castle there - Inveraray Castle - a Campbell castle.

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Lovely photos Annie and everyone..I'm quite familiar with most of the places in the pictures, but I've always wanted to visit Iona..altho' I know there's hardly anything there it's so tiny ..but the little Iona Abbey is very well known .:D Of course my dream visit would be to the Isle of Barra...I've never been always wanted to go..
 
The remains of the second oldest church building in Scotland. This is (originally) 12th. Century St.John's church which sits on a headland overlooking Gardenstown and the "clearance" village of Crovie (pronounced Crivie) in the background. The Highland clearances was a shameful episode in Scottish history where rich land owners forced whole communities (often brutally) from their land in order to raise the more profitable sheep. Many Scots emigrated, but most ended up living on poor ground near the coast and taking up fishing for a living. Crovie was one such village, but with ever larger boats, the harbour soon became too small. In the 1950's a huge storm destroyed the village and most people simply left to live in Gardenstown. However, the village didn't die and a preservation society was set to rebuild the cottages. Now it is a popular vacation spot for people who want to escape the 'rat race'. There are no roads or shops in Crovie. Holiday makers have to use a hand cart to move luggage from the car park to the cottages. Crovie has a permenant population of 6!!

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Beautiful yet very sad Cpt. I've seen it on TV...my great grandparents were crofters in the Highlands during when the horrendous Highland clearances were put in force, and ended up in Glasgow with many of their neighbours which was a huge slum in the 1800's and they were viewed as foreigners and treated very badly by the Glaswegians..and had to live in filth and desperate poverty
 
Josiah09 said:
Is it true you have no advertising billboards in the UK?
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It is true Josiah..they are usually called advertising hoardings here rather than Billboards and it's illegal to erect them along motorways or main roads..anyone doing so faces a fine of a minimum of ÂŁ250 per day .. thank goodness for that as well because they absolutely ruin the scenery IMO..
 
hollydolly said:
Lovely photos Annie and everyone..I'm quite familiar with most of the places in the pictures, but I've always wanted to visit Iona..altho' I know there's hardly anything there it's so tiny ..but the little Iona Abbey is very well known .:D Of course my dream visit would be to the Isle of Barra...I've never been always wanted to go..
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Iona is gorgeous! Great for hikes - even though it's small you can go on long hikes and up steep hills. You can visit the Abbey and the museum. And there's a nice pub/restaurant as well as the hotel restaurants.

We finally went to Barra a few years ago and rode our bikes all over. The beaches just take your breath away. And it's right next to Vatersay which also has stunning beaches.
 
Some Barra pics for Holly. The wide, white sandy beaches and very clear blue water is stunning!

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We spotted a pod of dolphins on one of our bike rides

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The castle in the water

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