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About lornaofarabia

I am a teacher from Medford, Oregon. I currently live and work in Bangkok, Thailand.

So long and thanks for all the fish

Posted on 4 Aug 2013 by lornaofarabia

The last two days of our summer vacation were given over to a shop-til-we-drop London scavenger hunt. The list of required items was long and varied. We split it in half and raced separately around the city in search of … Continue reading →

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Glasgow

Posted on 1 Aug 2013 by lornaofarabia

We had planned to visit the whisky isles – Jura and Islay – but after our last day on Mull, we thought that anything else we might do in the islands couldn’t compare with our trip to Staffa and Lunga. … Continue reading →

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Don’t let a little Cullen skink scare you

Posted on 31 Jul 2013 by lornaofarabia

Scottish cuisine gets an undeservedly bad rap. Everyone likes to poke fun at haggis (see the video clip in this post from my old food blog if you’re into haggis humor). But the great chieftain of the pudding race gets … Continue reading →

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Staffa and Treshnish

Posted on 30 Jul 2013 by lornaofarabia

Wow. We’ve seen some great stuff on this trip, but this really puts a bow on it. We booked a daytrip to Staffa and Treshnish through Turus Mara. A little bus picked us up at Salen’s village center and delivered … Continue reading →

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Iona

Posted on 29 Jul 2013 by lornaofarabia

Today we took a boat from Mull to the even smaller island of Iona. Iona was a hopping center of Celtic Christianity back in the day. St. Columba arrived there with twelve of his Irish buddies in the year 503. … Continue reading →

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Mulling it over

Posted on 28 Jul 2013 by lornaofarabia

Sorry. I know my titles get pretty cheesy sometimes. We spent last night in Oban, then this morning made the short crossing by ferry to the Isle of Mull. We dropped our bags off at a B&B in Salen, and … Continue reading →

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Mucking about

Posted on 27 Jul 2013 by lornaofarabia

Today we took the long way back from Rum. Most days of the week there is a ferry that goes from one small isle to another, but on summer Saturdays there is a ferry that starts on the mainland and … Continue reading →

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Midges and magnates

Posted on 26 Jul 2013 by lornaofarabia

This morning we took the the ferry from Ardvasar to Mallaig, on the mainland. There we boarded another ferry that took us to Rum, the largest in a group of four islands called “the small isles.” Rum has plenty of … Continue reading →

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Trotternish

Posted on 25 Jul 2013 by lornaofarabia

Inspired by our adventure yesterday (and undeterred by bad steps), we set out again today to explore Skye on foot. Today’s objective was Trotternish, the large peninsula at the north of the island. We hiked all day. We got a … Continue reading →

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No bad steps

Posted on 24 Jul 2013 by lornaofarabia

We are now on the Isle of Skye, aka “the misty isle.” Today we drove in our rental car along a series of nerve-racking single-track roads to the village of Elgol.  Our plan was to go on a hike described … Continue reading →

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