Scotland
Rugged terrain with thick green moss-covered rolling hills always attracted me. Iceland and New Zealand were the very definition of the mystical scenery I imagined. I loved how their landscapes showed the age of the Earth. But they weren’t the only places that attracted mystical scenery lovers like me. During my Scottish Highlands expedition last
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Scotland’s 50 Shades of Green As I’ve always imagined, Scotland is covered in green. It didn’t disappoint me. Different from Bhutan’s fresh and sunny green, Scotland’s was more complex and wet. Scotland has officially registered 977 kinds of mosses and liverworts that have been living there since before the dinosaurs. Because of the land’s diverse
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Food, whisky, and landscape… Scotland is full of surprises. First Impressions of Scotland Scotland, a small country that is part of the United Kingdom, was the first travel destination of the New Year. I visited Scotland during the Hogmanay Festival and traveled to Edinburgh, Inverness, and a few other places in the Highlands. IT
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My Scottish Highlands Experience What do you imagine when you think of the Scottish Highlands? Hurry coo (hairy cow)? Green landscape? Yes, and yes. Visiting the Scottish Highlands has been on my list for a while now, and it finally happened this year. I don’t exactly know why all I know was that it’s extremely
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Why I Went Snowboarding in Cairngorm Mountain When the Wind was Blowing 45mph So here’s the story. Invershnecky was dreich. It was blowing a gale but the mountain was surely bonnie. Because of the weather it wasn’t awfully hoachin. We put on a pair of red salopettes. I had to nip to the loo in
Illuminating Edinburgh for the New Year Happy New Year! What did you do for New Year’s Eve? Hope you had a fun time welcoming the new year! As you know, I spent my last day of 2013 at Scotland’s Hogmanay as a part of #blogmanay team. Not only Edinburgh, but also Stirling, Inverness, Stonehaven, and
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I’m going to Scotland! This New Year’s Eve, I’ll be welcoming 2014 in a country I’ve never been: Scotland. The biggest midnight moment on the planet, as they say, will be happening at Edinburgh’s Hogmanay with 80,000 people and fireworks. In fact, it was recognized by the Guinness Book of Records in 1996 at the
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