#duich

[peacefulandcozy]

Instagram credit: __suzannah

#york #england #edinburgh #scotland #yorkshire #haworth village #eilean donan castle #loch duich #united kingdom #uk #villages #beautiful places #autumn aesthetic #fall aesthetic

[ancestorsalive]

Clachan Duich, Scotland by Alan on flickr

#Clachan Duich #Scotland #Ancestors Alive! #What is Remembered Lives #Memory & Spirit of Place #Highlands

[scotianostra]

Eilean Donan Castle at Sunset.

📸borsphotography on Instagram  

#Scotland #scottish #Eilean Donan Castle #Dornie #Loch Alsh #Loch Duich #Loch Long

[vox-anglosphere]

Scotland's most photographed castle basks in the spring sunlight

#Eilean Donan Castle #Loch Duich #Scottish castles #Highlands #springtime #yellow shrubs #natural beauty #Wester Ross #UK #Loch Alsh #Loch Long #Dornie #Ross-shire #mediaeval

[travelella]

Eilean Donan Castle, Eilean Donan Island, Loch Duich Island Group, Scotland, United Kingdom

Dan Mall

#Eilean Donan Castle #Eilean Donan #Loch Duich #Scotland #United Kingdom #UK #Europe #Castle

[negreabsolut]

El castell d'Eilean Donan, vora el llac Duich, a Escòcia.

#Caisteal Eilean Donnain #Eilean Donan #castell #castell d'Eilean Donan #llac Duich #Escòcia #Alba #paisatge #paisatge muntanyenc #llac

[mi-capsula]

Sinsentidos

30/10/2022

Ayer compartí un momento muy lindo con una persona que, sinceramente, tenía miedo de hablarle.

Tengo la estima demasiado baja como para lograr sentirme bien últimamente, pero anoche tenía ganas de salir y hacer sociales para no estar todo el día lidiando con mi ansiedad. No sabía que iba a pasar, pero sería mejor a estar encerrado.

Halloween. Qué dilema me construiste en la cabeza. Hace exactamente un año empezaba una de las etapas más lindas de mi vida, donde todo parecía ir sobre rieles, con dirección y a buen ritmo. Símil a ver todo a través de una lente, donde todo se ve bien, simétrico y enfocado. Ese fue el error. Ver las cosas a través de algo.

Estando en esa fiesta, me obligué a pasarla bien. Me lo merecía después de tanto. Pero al cabo de un tiempo, de a poco volvía a sentirme igual de vacío que siempre. Con falta de interés en todo, como si mi cabeza consumiera el 100% de su energía pensando en otra cosa. ESA cosa que me taladra la cabeza.

Idas y vueltas. Tragos y un poco de risas. Era lo que necesitaba. Ni bien ni mal, solo viviendo.

Cuando vuelvo a buscar a mis amigos al patio, me siento en el suelo a seguir con mi trago y charlar con quien quisiera cruzarme la mirada. Ya había pasado el umbral de ansiedad, empezaba a hablar el alcohol. De asomo se acerca un amigo y se sienta conmigo. Deja el vaso en el suelo, y con ánimos de subírmelos a mí, me pregunta por ella. Él no sabía nada, como casi todos ahí. Qué raro de mí ocultar mis problemas con sonrisas. Parafraseo vagamente y sin entrar en detalles, para no quebrarme en la situación, cuando entra en la conversación otra persona, la que mencioné al principio.

Párrafo aparte, porque es una situación extraña con él. Cuando empece a conocerla, la única persona cercana que la seguía por redes sociales era él, entonces para aclarar las cosas le pregunté si se conocían de antes. Nada beligerante, sino para no meterme en territorios de un amigo. A lo que me responde que era su ex de hace un par de años. No sabía qué responder. Le expliqué la situación y le aclaré que no sabía nada de esto cuando empezamos a salir. No era mi intención meterme en su intimidad.

Aclarados los puntos, y con el visto bueno por parte de él, yo ya tenía la conciencia tranquila de que no estaba parado en un lugar donde no me querían. Además de que cada uno después siguió su camino con otras personas.

Volviendo al relato. Cuando empece a abrirme en este tema justamente con él, sentía que estaba con alguien que podía entender de lo que hablaba. Sin entrar en detalles sobre él, puedo decir que se sentía muy similar a mi justo en ese momento, por otros motivos.

Hay dos puntos muy importantes en estos temas.

—La verdad no siempre es lo que te gusta.

—Las cosas se hablan crudas, pero con tacto, para que te duelan pero sin lastimar.

Pocas veces hice tanta fuerza para no llorar.

Pude sacar la presión que tenía en mi cabeza sobre hablar de este tema así de intensamente con alguien, y también logré vencer el miedo que tenía de abrirme con él y saber que era lo que pensaba al respecto de todo. Y, sorprendentemente, no estamos muy lejanos uno del otro. Y doy gracias por eso.

Encontré verdades que no quería ver por mi mismo, que duelen más de lo que pude llegar a imaginar, pero que son necesarias para que pueda dejar de sentirme tan mal.

Recordé verdades que ya sabía, pero que me negaba a aceptarlas por miedo a perder algo que ya no es mío.

El futuro no se sabe en qué forma vendrá, pero es de mi propiedad.

Y por sobre todo, me di cuenta de que todos tienen sus tiempos. Más lentos o más rápidos, cada uno tiene el suyo. Y duele darse cuenta qué, de a poco, uno deja de formar parte de los tiempos del otro, cuando los propios siguen corriendo a la par.

Fa.D.A.

#york #england #edinburgh #scotland #united kingdom #hull old town #loch duich #amsterdam #netherlands #swans #gothic aesthetic #goth #gothic #dark academia #dark #beautiful village #villages #pumpkins #autumn #fall #nature vibes #nature #poetry

[myvinylplaylist]

The Bad Examples: Cheap Beer Night (1992)

Recorded Thursday and Friday, November 14-15, 1991, at the Beat Kitchen, Chicago, Illinois

Waterdog Records

#my vinyl playlist #the bad examples #john duich #terry wathen #ralph covert #pickles piekarski #waterdog records #beat kitchen chicago #power pop #90’s rock #audio cassette #album cover #album art

[poetka]

Eilean Donan, Scotland

#eilean donan castle #scotland #travelling #eilean donan #loch duich #eilean donnain

[johnschneiderblog]

Location, location, location ...

I'll kick off a caption contest ...

Me: "They already have an offer above asking; what do you think ...?"

Chris: "Great curb appeal, but I hear the neighbors are warlike."

Eilean Donan - not really on the market - is one of the most photographed castles in the world. It sits on an island at the entrance of Loch Duich, on the west coast of Scotland, and is dripping in Jacobite charm.

The Jacobites (supporters of deposed James II after the Revolution of 1688) made Eilean Donan their headquarters.

We visited the castle during our tour of the Highlands.

We're in Galway now. We'll spend one more night here, then head to Shannon Thursday. We'll fly back to Chicago Friday.

#John Schneider #castle Eilean Donan #Scottish Highlands #caption contest

[airmanisr]

09_03906 Duich Collection Image by SDASM Archives Via Flickr: Piction ID: 83793528 Paul Duich Collection Image Boeing B-29 Superfortress--Please tag these photos so information can be recorded.---Note: This material may be protected by Copyright Law (Title 17 U.S.C.)--Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum

#B-29 #aircraft

[peacefulandcozy]

Instagram credit: __suzannah

#york #england #edinburgh #scotland #united kingdom #hull old town #loch duich #amsterdam #netherlands #swans #gothic aesthetic #goth #gothic #dark academia #dark #beautiful village #villages #pumpkins #autumn #fall #nature vibes #nature

[ancestorsalive]

"I am a part of all that I have met."

~ Alfred Lord Tennyson

A view of Loch Duich, Kintail, from Clachan Duich Bridge, Scottish Highlands.

Photo by Alan Howe.

#Loch Duich #Kintail #Clachan Duich #Clachan Duich Bridge #Scottish Highlands #Photography #Alan Howe #Ancestors Alive! #Memory & Spirit of Place #What is Remembered Lives #Ancestral Lands

[scotianostra]

On August 23rd 1913 work began on the rebuilding of Eilean Donan Castle.

The castle, at Loch Duich was destroyed by the Royal Navy during the minor Jacobite Rising of 1719, when Jacobites and their Spanish supporters garrisoned the stronghold. A number of Spanish soldiers were taken hostage with the remainder fighting at the Battle of Glenshiel  in June 1719, which ended in a defeat for the Jacobites.

Eilean Donan Castle, once the traditional seat of Clan Mackenzie, lay a ruin for the next 200 years. Lt. Col. John MacRae-Gilstrap (on the left in the second  picture with the kilt) of the MacRae’s of Conchra, the traditional bodyguards to Clan Mackenzie, bought the castle in 1911 and launched the restoration in 1913. The job was to take almost 20 years. Stones, some weighing about 1.5tons, were taken from the hills by Lochlongside and carried to the castle by horse and boat.  Those working on the long restoration job were charged with rebuilding walls that were 13-feet deep in parts.

The restoration was praised at a time when Scottish castles were facing wholesale demolition given the rising costs of maintaining such properties. I love the pic of members of the MacRae-Gilstrap family check in on progress - along with the family dog. Lt Col MacRae-Gilstrap was praised individually for his vision and his never-dying love of the Gael…and determination that the clan spirit shall live.

The restoration of Eilean Donan has been described as a “phoenix rising from the ashes. Over two decades, one of the most recognisable landmarks in Scotland took shape.The final piece of the job was adding the now-famous bridge to the island castle.

The opening ceremony on a rainy day in July 1932 drew hundreds of people from this part of the Highlands. An account from the opening queried whether any castle in the world could surpass the "natural grandeur of the the rugged setting” of Eilean Donan. Today, Eilean Donan Castle attracts in the region of 550,000 visitors every year and in 2019 reported its highest ever August visitor numbers, it will probably take some time to reach the pre-pandemic numbers.

If you want the latest from the castle visit their web page here https://eileandonan.wordpress.com/

#Scotland #scottish #eilean donan castle #reconstruction #restoration #Dornie #Loch Duich #history

[maximumwobblerbanditdonut]

The Outlander Season 7 mid-season finale ends with one specific Scots Gaelic song 🎶 a classic ballad, with deeper meaning. “Tha mi sigith ‘n fhogar seo,” or “I am weary of this exile.” This song has traditionally been attributed to John MacRae, Iain mac Mhurchaidh, who was born in Lianag a’ Chùl Doire in Kintail-a mountainous area sitting at the head of Loch Duich in the Northwest Highlands of Scotland.

After the Jacobite rebellion of 1745-6 and the crushing defeat at Culloden and its bloody aftermath, he emigrated to North Carolina around 1774. When the American War of Independence began in 1775 he joined the loyalist army, fighting with the Royal Highland Emigrants the (84th Regiment of Foot)

The Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge was fought between the United Colonies and Great Britain on February 27, 1776, near Wilmington, North Carolina, during the American Revolution. It was the first battle of the war that took place in North Carolina.

He fought at the battle of Moore’s Creek on the 27th of February, 1776. The loyalists lost and as he relates in the song, he became an outlaw who was eventually captured and imprisoned, his songs were so influential among the Carolina Gaels, he was dealt with in a particularly harsh way by the rebels.

According to tradition his Carolina songs were brought back to Scotland by another John MacRae, Iain mac a’ Ghobha of Bundaloch, Dornie. Some of Iain mac Mhurchaidh’s songs were published in the Celtic Magazine in 1882.

Màiri Sìne Chaimbeul brings together, for the first time, the full surviving corpus of songs attributed to the celebrated eighteenth-century Kintail and North Carolina poet, Iain mac Mhurchaidh, or John MacRae. Scottish Gaelic Texts Society, 2020 Length 310 pages

#IainmacMhurchaidh #JohnMacRae #Scotland #Thamisigith’nfhogarseo#Iamwearyofthisexile #Outlander #season7midseasonfinale #Royal Highland Emigrants #84thRegimentofFoot #poet #MàiriSìneChaimbeul #NorthCarolina #poet #battle #Moore’sCreekbridge

[lahilden]

Eilean Donan Castle

Eilean Donan Castle is located on an island in Loch Duich, Scotland. The first fortified, defensive structure was built in this area by King Alexander II or III in the early 13th century to protect against Viking invaders who controlled much of the area from 800-1266. Over the centuries, the castle was expanded and even decreased in size in the 14th century, but the original medieval castle was large and nearly covered the entire island with its towers and curtain wall. The 16th century saw the installation of hornwork added to the east wall as canons were introduced. Having played a role in the Jacobite risings of the 17th and 18th centuries, the castle was eventually taken by three armed frigates, and the barrels of gunpowder stored there were used to destroy the structure. Partially destroyed and abandoned for nearly 200 years, the island was purchased by Lt Colonel John MacRae-Gilstrap in 1911, and reconstruction of the castle began. The castle was completed in 1932, along with an arched bridge to the island. In 1955, it was opened to the public by MacRae-Gilstrap’s grandson. The castle has a holiday cottage for guests, a gift shop, a visitor center, and a café. Eilean Donan Castle serves as a museum, a venue, and a film location.

#castles #scotland #LochDuich #eilean donan castle #museums #venues