Scotland & Ireland
Summer, 2008
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Concert Tour with the Oregon Chorale
OK, I'll be right up front with this one - Scotland and Ireland were the last places in the world I wanted to visit. Don't get me wrong - they're not a bad places at all. The scenery is beautiful. The people are wonderful, the food is tolerable. I guess I had my sites set on something a little more exotic, perhaps.
I am a compulsive travel documentarian - I don't want to forget the slightest detail of my travels. However, the combination of general disinterest and the overwhelming volume (over 4,000) of pictures has discouraged me from moving forward with the project. With few exceptions, weather conditions thwarted most attempts at anything approaching quality photography, so I ended up mostly with a big pile of only so-so snapshots that took a lot of work just to bring up to documentary standards..
So, here we go - more than a year after the fact, I'm finally pulling it together.
- It all started one day in Glasgow....
- From there we bussed our way up to Inverness in northish Scotland...
- A couple of hours around town in Inverness...
- You can't avoid Loch Ness once you're in this region....
- From Inverness to Stirling by way of Culloden, Pitlochry and Dunkeld...
- Stirling Castle, the Bridge and the Wallace Monument
- You can't visit Scotland without paying a visit to St Andrews, can you?
- Stirling to Belfast by bus and ferry, around town, Maritime Festiva concert rained outl...
- Giant's Causeway was a highlight of the trip...
- Afternoon drive to Dublin by way of Newgrange...
- A day of touring and concerts in Dublin...
- Dublin to Waterford by way of Kilkenny...
- Waterford...
- Waterford to Killarney by way of Cobh, Blarney Castle...
- Killarney...
- Ring of Kerry from Killarney...
- Killarney to Limrick with a stop at Bunratty Castle...
- Limrick to the Cliffs of Moher...
- And there it ended... (except for the 3D shots...)
