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A Guide to Skye’s Talisker Distillery: Why You Should Visit

November 1, 2023
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Scotland, Skye

You need not be a whisky lover to enjoy a visit to Talisker’s Distillery. The distillery is located in a beautiful setting, on the banks of Loch Harport from where one can view the imposing Cuilin mountain range. If you are a fan of whisky then you will be happy to know it’s the oldest working distillery on the Isle of Skye and its whiskey is world-renowned. It was our favorite Distillery to visit in the highlands along with the...

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Dunvegan Castle and Gardens Travel Guide

October 29, 2023
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Scotland, Skye

The ancestral seat of the MacLeods on Skye is the isle’s most stunning castle. The castle is built on an elevated rock overlooking an inlet on the eastern shore of Loch Dunvegan. It was first built in the 13th century and developed piecemeal over the centuries. In the 19th century, the whole castle was remodelled in a medieval style – its current appearance dates from about 1840. As impressive as the castle are the beautiful and expansive gardens that surround...

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Sligachan Bridge and Waterfalls Travel Guide

October 29, 2023
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Scotland, Skye

Sligachan is a tiny settlement on Skye, at the head of Loch Sligachan. For some, it’s just a road junction with a few accommodation options often used as a base for climbing the nearby Cuillin mountains. For many others, however, it’s a beautiful and worthy stop along Skye’s busiest road (A87) to admire the stunning old stone Sligachan Bridge. If you have more time on your hands and don’t mind a short scenic walk, you can make your way to...

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The Quiraing: Hiking Guide to one of Skye’s Most Otherworldly Landscapes

October 23, 2023
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Scotland, Skye

When most people think of the Isle of Skye, they are probably thinking of dramatic and stunning landscapes such as those of the Quiraing. Formed by a massive landslide, the Quiraing area is without a doubt one of the most spectacular landscapes to be seen on Skye and it is the setting for one of Scotland’s most iconic hikes (or walks as they say in the UK). If you are not an avid hiker, worry not, there are also two...

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The Fairy Pools: Hiking Guide to one of Skye’s Magical Landscapes

October 23, 2023
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Scotland, Skye

The Isle of Skye is not lacking in beautiful landscapes and those found at the Fairy Pools will not disappoint. The setting will definitely feel magical and fairy-like with a beautiful series of waterfalls, cascades, and water pools backdropped by the imposing and often cloud-wrapped Cuillin mountains. Though the trail to the Fairy Pools is technically considered a hiking trail, the path is wide and well-groomed, and there isn’t much elevation gain, making it easily accessible and one of the...

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Old Man of Storr: Hiking Guide to one of Skye’s Most Stunning Landscapes

October 11, 2023
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Scotland, Skye

Scotland is rife with beautiful landscapes and hiking trails, particularly in the Scottish Highlands. One of our favourite hikes in Scotland is the trail leading up to and providing fantastic views of the Old Man of Storr, a towering pinnacle and an iconic landmark of the Isle of Skye. Although you have probably seen many pictures of the area before, there is definitely something special and unique about seeing it with your own two eyes. Below we present our Hiking...

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Camasunary Bay: Hiking Guide to One of Skye’s Most Secluded Beautiful Locations

October 11, 2023
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Scotland, Skye

Although Scotland’s Isle of Skye is particularly famous for its otherworldly landscapes like those seen along the Quairing and the Old Man of Storr trails, the views along the Camasunary Bay trail are no less beautiful, particularly once you reach Camanusay Bay itself. A bonus is that there are nowhere near the crowds that those other more popular trails are known for, so you will definitely feel like you have the trail and the scenery to yourself at times, if...

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Talisker Bay: Hiking Guide to One of Skye’s Most Unique Beaches and Waterfalls

October 6, 2023
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Scotland, Skye

Skye is ripe with beautiful, green and unusual landscapes. But it’s only in Talisker Bay where you’ll find the unique combination of stunning sea stacks, a beautiful beach, a tall slim coastal waterfall and mooing cows as far as the eyes can see. The hike (or “walk” as they often say in the UK) is definitely a hidden gem that will provide you with beautiful scenery with very little effort required on your end. It’s a very peaceful walk, we...

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Fairy Glen: Travel & Hiking Guide to One of Skye’s Most Unusual and Unique Landscapes

October 6, 2023
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Scotland, Skye

Though perhaps not as popular a hiking destination or as scenic as Skye’s Fairy Pools, the Fairy Glen is still a unique landscape enough landscape to deserve a visit, especially if you plan on spending some time on Skye’s stunning Trotternish Peninsula. Though many think the area is overrated, we felt it was definitely worth a stop due to its unique and unusual landscape of grassy, small cone-shaped hills. It’s definitely worth visiting if you are planning to hike the...

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‘Tis the Season - part deux
★彡𝗪𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗪𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀彡★ 📍Québec City, Québec (pics 1-5)
📍Montréal, Québec (6-9) The Story of December 25th *******************
❓Do you why Is Christmas is celebrated on December 25? Although Christmas was originally intended to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, the actual date of that big event is lost to history. In fact, for the first three centuries of Christianity’s existence, Jesus Christ’s birth wasn’t celebrated at all. The first official mention of December 25 as a holiday honouring Jesus’ birthday appears in an early Roman calendar from AD 336. But was Jesus born on December 25 in the first place? Probably not. The Bible doesn’t mention his exact birthday, nor the time of year for that matter, and the Nativity store contains conflicting clues with a December birth. For instance, the presence of shepherds and their sheep suggests a spring birth. One theory is that when church officials settled on December 25 at the end of the third century, they likely wanted the date to coincide with existing pagan festivals honouring Saturn (the Roman god of agriculture) and Mithra (the Persian god of light). That way, it became easier to convince Rome’s pagan subjects to accept Christianity as the empire’s official religion. Despite its popularity today, this theory of Christmas’s origins has its problems. It is not found in any ancient Christian writings, for one thing. It’s not until the 12th century that we find the first suggestion that Jesus’ birth celebration was deliberately set at the time of pagan feasts. We might never know with any certainty why December 25th was chosen for Christmas. *******************
#christmas #december #holidayspirit #wintermagic #montreal #mtl #holidaydecorations #traveldestinations #christmastime #xmas #holidayseason #explorequebec #BonjourQuebec #xmasdecorations #xmasiscoming #quebeccity #quebec

‘Tis the Season
★彡𝗪𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗪𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀彡★ 📍Québec City, Québec The Story of Christmas Trees (and Charlie Brown) *******************
❓Did you know that the first artificial Christmas trees were made with Goose feathers? These trees were then later refined by a company specializing in …. toilet brushes!!! Artificial trees came about during the 1880s in Germany, after Christmas trees became so popular that Germany’s number of trees noticeably declined. Deforestation became a real problem so to combat this, the Goose Feather artificial tree was created. Goose Feather trees were created using actual goose feathers, which were dyed green and and split, secured by wire to form branches. Those wires were attached to dowels which made up the roots. These became quite popular in Germany and soon spread throughout Europe, and even to North America. However, contrary to real trees, these versions couldn’t hold many ornaments because they weren’t particularly sturdy. In the early 1930s, the Addis Brush Company in Britain realized that there must be a better way to build an Artificial Christmas Tree. The brush company was best known for making the first toilet brush and used those same bristles (dyed green) to create leaves on artificial trees. These could hold significantly more weight than goose feather trees. In the late 1950s and early 1960s silver aluminum pine trees were in vogue, most of which included a color wheel, a rotating plastic disc that projected colored lights onto the tree’s reflective surface. **
Then Charlie Brown arrived and killed the aluminum tree. That’s right, in 1965, “A Charlie Brown Christmas” aired for the first time, and its negative portrayal of aluminum Christmas trees is credited for the aluminum tree market collapse. Most aluminum tree production companies ceased production by 1970. ******************* #holidayspirit #wintermagic #montreal #mtl #holidaydecorations #traveldestinations #christmastime #xmasvibes #xmas #xmas2023 #holidayseason #explorequebec #BonjourQuebec #xmasdecorations #xmasiscoming #winter #winterwonderland

First Snow ★彡𝗪𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗪𝗼

Cloudy Peaks 𝑴𝒐𝒐𝒅𝒚 𝑵𝒐𝒗𝒆

Into the Badlands
𝑴𝒐𝒐𝒅𝒚 𝑵𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓 𝑺𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒔 📍Canadian Badlands, Alberta Though the name may seem self-explanatory, early French explorers actually gave the Canadian Badlands region its current name, referring to them as “bad lands to cross” due to this region’s steep-sloped, flat-top mountains and deep, winding gullies. The Canadian Badlands were formed more than 13,000 years ago as a result of glacial meltwater from the Laurentide ice sheet. *******************
❓Did you know that the Canadian Badlands are home to the largest deposits of dinosaur bones in the world? Within the badland region, you will find both Dinosaur Provincial Park and The Royal Tyrrell Museum, just west of Drumheller, a town often referred to as the “Dinosaur Capital of the World” and is also where you’ll find the world’s tallest dinosaur statue, standing at roughly 4.5 times the height of an actual T-rex. The Royal Tyrrell Museum houses one of the best fossil collections in the world (pics 9-10), including five specimens that are Guinness World Record holders. You can see three of them on display at the museum year-round, including the largest marine reptile, the most complete tyrannosaurid skeleton and the best-preserved armoured dinosaur in the world. *******************
#Drumheller #badlands #intothebadlands #canadianbadlands #landscapelovers #landscapephotos #moodyscenes #moodynature #moodyedits #landscapephotograpy #landscape_photography #landscapelovers #moody #naturescenes #moodylandscapes

Dramatic Lakes
𝑴𝒐𝒐𝒅𝒚 𝑵𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓 𝑺𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒔 📍Gosau Lakes & Gosau Valley, Austria *******************
❓Did you know that, although we are nearly a month away from the shortest day of the year (in the northern hemisphere), several towns and inhabited settlements in the northern hemisphere have already said goodbye to the sun for 2024? Such places experience what is known as a polar night, when the sun is at least six degrees below the horizon for several weeks at a time. Utqiaġvik (Alaska) is home to around 4,500 people, and they haven’t seen the sun since November 18th, and won’t see it again until January 23rd. Longyearbyen, the world's northernmost settlement with a population greater than 1,000 and the largest inhabited area of Svalbard, Norway, hasn’t seen the sun since November 11th, and won’t see it again until January 30th. Though the polar night isn’t as long in Murmansk, Russia, lasting from December 1st to January 10th, the town has a large population of nearly 300,000 people (the largest city in the world that is north of the Arctic Circle). That’s a lot of folks that soon won’t see the sun for a while. *******************
#alpinelakes #austria #gosaulakes #traveltheworld #landscapelovers #landscapephotos #mountainscenery #mountainscape #moodyscenes #moodynature #moodyedits #landscapephotograpy #landscape_photography #landscapelovers #moody

Medieval Castles 𝑴𝒐𝒐𝒅𝒚 𝑵𝒐𝒗

Jagged Peaks 𝑴𝒐𝒐𝒅𝒚 𝑵𝒐𝒗𝒆

Where Grey Skies Meet Blue Waters 𝑴𝒐𝒐𝒅

$Where Grey Skies Meet Blue Waters 𝑴𝒐𝒐𝒅𝒚 𝑵𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓 𝑺𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒔 📍Yoho National Park Yoho is one of my favourite National Parks in the Canadian Rockies. Banff and Jasper get most of the spotlight, but Yoho is no less beautiful with its stunning Emerald Lake - with a fraction of the crowds. ******************* ❓Did you know that the first non-indigenous person to set sight on Emerald Lake didn’t do so until 1882? Canadian guide Tom Wilson stumbled upon it by accident when a string of his horses had gotten away, and it was while tracking them that he found himself in the valley leading to the lake. What a beautiful surprise! ******************* . . . . . #emeraldlake #yoho #yohonationalpark #canadianrockies #landscapelovers #landscapephotos #hiking #hikingshots #mountainscenery #mountainscape #mountainphotography #turquoiselakes #moodyscenes #moodynature #moodyedits$

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