H Lewis Allways

I’ll admit it, these adverts get to me. And even though I’ve been in Scotland for nearly six months I still get a little spring in my walk when I round the corner onto the Royal Mile and there’s a bagpiper there playing for the tourists.

Tagged: #Scotland

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Dog and Bay

Took a very long morning walk north of Oban. One-in-a-thousand Scottish day.

Tagged: #Scotland #Oban

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Hogmanay torchlight procession last night. I didn’t burn myself nor anyone around me. Eyebrows and hair all intact this morning.

Tagged: #edinburgh #hogmanay #scotland

Notes. Permalink. Sat, Dec 31st 2011, 4:03 AM (∞).

Tagged: #my photography #Edinburgh #Scotland

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Edinburgh Castle, Christmas evening.

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In 1964, physicist Peter Higgs of Edinburgh was walking in the Cairngorms when he had his famous idea about symmetry-breaking in the electroweak theory, now a key element of the standard model of particle physics. If the so-called Higgs boson is eventually detected by experiment, this will give the Cairngorms a special place in the history of science.

Hiking here someday.

Tagged: #Science #Scotland

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Peter Ware Higgs lives somewhere in New Town, Edinburgh, about a mile away from me. It’s more than mere idle curiosity that has me wanting to find and sit on his doorstep.

Tagged: #Boson stalking #Scotland #science #Edinburgh

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