Kilted Fortnight Scotland Holiday – 2011

[M. A. C. Newsome]

Chuck is back in Franklin safe and sound and reports that A Good Time Was Had By All. :-)

He hasn't shared any of his photos with me yet, so it's very nice to see yours, Ern!

[Derek]

Great pics Ern. I love these travelogue pics. Really looking forward to seeing all the others you have yet to post.
Iechyd Da
Derek

[Mael Coluim]

Our first stop would be Holyrood Palace. On my 2009 visit to Edinburgh I could not visit the Palace as HRH was in residence. Unfortunately, as with most palaces and castles you are not allowed to take photographs inside.

[Mael Coluim]

There were two famous paintings I saw that I didn’t release that were at Holyrood. This one of George IV. Please read this link about his visit to Scotland in 1822.




The other is this one of Culloden Moor. You could have knocked me over with a feather when I saw it hanging above a door way.

[Mael Coluim]

Leaving the Palace I visited the Holyrood Abbey ruins.











Leaving the Abbey, I made my way back to the bus.

Arhur's Seat in the background.




I had started my day, with the thought to keep count of how many tourists ask to take my photo. I lost count and gave up the task by mid morning. As I was walking to the coach I walked by a large group of young Chinese and quickly caused a traffic jam as they all quickly aimed their cameras at me!

More to come

[seanachie]

ERN:
Thanks for these pics. For various and sundry reasons I haven't had time off from work since January. I am vicariously enjoying a holiday through these pics. I have had some wonderful times in Edinburgh. I must say man, licensed premises in Edinburgh are great I hope you have some pics to share. My last trip I had the pleasure of making it to the Oxford Bar, the local of Ian Rankin's detective John Rebus.

[Mael Coluim]

ERN:
Thanks for these pics. For various and sundry reasons I haven't had time off from work since January. I am vicariously enjoying a holiday through these pics. I have had some wonderful times in Edinburgh. I must say man, licensed premises in Edinburgh are great I hope you have some pics to share. My last trip I had the pleasure of making it to the Oxford Bar, the local of Ian Rankin's detective John Rebus.

Oxford Bar, eh. Let me put that on my itinerary for the next trip. TX!

[McClef]

Both those pictures you mentioned were covered in the BBC programme on Mondya night Ern.

If TV is allowed to take inside pics why not visitors? Probably because of the money they make from selling the guides and postcards might suffer I guess.

[Paul Henry]

Both those pictures you mentioned were covered in the BBC programme on Mondya night Ern.

If TV is allowed to take inside pics why not visitors? Probably because of the money they make from selling the guides and postcards might suffer I guess.

The reason is down to control really, one set of tv cameras are there for perhaps a few hours, and on a few ocasions only, it's one team who can be looked after, and generally speaking professional cameramen , either still or moving, are used to working in different situations and can usually get a very good result. The general public are actually fairly hard to manage and control in large numbers, and having hundreds of flash guns going off isn't very kind to the the pictures or the fabrics.
As I visitor I dislike intensely people getting in the way taking photographs it disrupts the visit for me, and especially if flash is involved

Of course all the historic places want to sell postcards and the like, but being realistic most of those pictures they sell are fairly good quality and a much more accurate record of the place.
But Holyrood isn't any different from historic places all over the world, very few allow flash photography, and many don't allow any sort of photography either.

[Jock Scot]

Both those pictures you mentioned were covered in the BBC programme on Mondya night Ern.

If TV is allowed to take inside pics why not visitors? Probably because of the money they make from selling the guides and postcards might suffer I guess.

You are wrong there Trefor, it is all to do with security and prevention of theft.

Many stately homes now refuse consent to pics being taken inside these days. It was after some art thieves raided Drumlanrig Castle where a very important work of art was stolen( returned some years later after a cloak and dagger opperation) it was discovered that the thieves identified possible future sales of their ill-gotten gains to prospective "customers" by posing as tourists taking pictures of this and that. The pictures were also used to identify security systems and points of entry and exits.