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The Scottish Highlands
On the last day of the actual tour we made two stops, at Glen Coe and Glenfinnan. The photos for this day are all in the gallery Scottish Highlands. We came ashore in the morning at Fort William, after breakfast … Continue reading
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Tagged Celtic Lands Cruise 2019, Glencoe, Glenfinnan, Scotland
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The Isle of Mull
As I said in my last post, our trip to Iona ended with a ferry ride to the Isle of Mull, where the tour company had taken the bus we didn’t use on Iona. In fact, the cruise instructions say … Continue reading
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Tagged Celtic Lands Cruise 2019, Duart Castle, Isle of Mull
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Iona
Leaving Wales, we approached one of the spots that made me decide to take the cruise: Iona. Iona is a tiny island (about 1 mile wide by 4 miles long) off the west coast of Scotland, with a resident population … Continue reading
Touring Wales
The gallery with photos of this day is Touring Wales. There are many more photos of Bodnant Garden than I’ve included here. The sky was reasonably clear when the ship pulled into Holyhead harbor in Wales, but that was very … Continue reading
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Tagged Bodnant Gardens, Caernaervon, Celtic Lands Cruise 2019, Wales
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Dublin
In a “Celtic lands” tour, it’s no surprise that we went to Dublin, although we only spent one day. The photo gallery for this day is Dublin, feel free to check it out for photos I didn’t include here. The … Continue reading
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Tagged Book of Kells, Celtic Lands Cruise 2019, Dublin, Ireland
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Tresco Gardens
The photos for this trip are all in the gallery Tresco Gardens. I encourage you to look through the photos, I’m going to post a relatively small number of plant photos here. My husband, a gardener, has identified all the … Continue reading
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Tagged Celtic Lands Cruise 2019, Scilly Isles, Tresco, Tresco Abbey Gardens, Valhalla Museum
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Utah Beach and Normandy
This will be a longer post than I thought. I spaced out on the fact that, after touring Pointe du Hoc and Utah Beach (and eating our bag lunches on the bus because it was raining), we went on to … Continue reading
Pointe du Hoc
Saturday June 8 was a very busy day and is going to get two posts. It started out as a very blustery and wet day, to the point that my pants were soaked while walking from the boat to the … Continue reading
Omaha Beach
This was our first D-Day tour. Our original itinerary for this day, June 7, had us landing at Caen, then driving to Arromanches-les-Bains to see the 360° theater, and then the German gun battery at Longues sur Mer, before going … Continue reading
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Tagged Arromanches-Les-Bains, Celtic Lands Cruise 2019, France, Omaha Beach, Saint-Laurent-Sur-Mer
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Portsmouth
On June 6 we checked out of the London hotel (had to have the bags ready for pickup by some unholy hour) and after a very early breakfast, headed for Portsmouth and the D-Day Museum – and Le Boréal. The … Continue reading