It’s 50 years since a group of undergraduates from the Cambridge University Astronomical Society had a holiday surveying megalithic sites in Argyll to investigate possible astronomical alignments. It was a lot of fun, and we even wrote it up and the results were published in a paper in Nature 253, 431‑433 (1975) which was probably something of an achievement at the time, though I’m not sure that we realised how much!
We had a great time meeting up and revisiting old haunts in the area.
After several years of enforced absence we have returned to the mainland of Europe! I have now added some more photos here.
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Last year we had intended to visit East Anglia on our way home from the nyckel;harpa gathering at Halsway. Unfortunately we had car problems which meant that we had to complete the journey by train, and abandon our holiday plans. This year we managed to do the holiday trip, though without a Halsway visit for once.
We had a trip of a few days up to Inverness to visit family and friends. The weather was mostly dreich but we enjoyed the trip. Continue reading
A long planned visit to Shetland with the family. Great that Geth finally got to see Shetland in the sun, and that Steff had lovely weather (and ponies!) to help make her first visit memorable. Continue reading
We had a great (if very brief) visit to Inverness, to the “Out of the Box” concert where David Chadwick was performing on nyckelharpa in Inverness Cathedral. Continue reading
I prefer the portrait version of this photo (on the website) but this is cropped so it will be visible in Facebook … Continue reading
