The Gallery - Holidays
Tags: photos, meme, the gallery, holidays
Date: 07 July 2010 08:00:08
This week for the Gallery Week 18, hosted by Tara at the Sticky Fingers blog, the theme is Holidays. When I saw the theme I have to say my heart sank. We are well into holiday season now, but thanks to my thesis and its scarily imminent deadline we won't be having a summer holiday this year. Depending on finances we may try to get away later in the year, but who knows? Of course we did have our holiday this year already in Venice in February (which I blogged about with lots of pictures here), but as I have blogged about that before I didn't want to go over that again. I was thinking of previous holidays from years gone by (I've had some brilliant ones, I must say!), but sadly all my film photos (pre-2004 when I got my first digital camera) are in storage and not yet scanned - I can't wait till we no longer have to have our stuff in storage, I'm going to really really enjoy going through my old photo albums. Now that really will be a trip down memory lane!
Apart from Venice, HD and I have only had one proper holiday together, which was our honeymoon (we've been away together more than twice of course, but other times have been long weekends, staying with friends and family, or festivals, that sort of thing). As the honeymoon featured in last week's Gallery post I felt a bit reluctant to post on it again, but it did get me thinking. With the vagaries of air travel (strikes, volcanoes, etc), plus the fact that we live in an incredible beautiful country with still so much to explore, we've both talked about wanting to explore more Scottish islands. Actually even outwith Scotland I realise that quite a number of my places-I-really-want-to-visit-before-I-die are islands. I can't provide pictures from places we've not yet visited, but for this theme I chose a couple of pictures from Scottish islands we've already visited. Enjoy!
Shetland (HD's not been here, this is from when I had the job interview last year. I can't wait to take him back and explore some more):
Arran (which we visited for my significant unmentionable birthday last year):
Great Cumbrae (visited for a day 'doon the watter' in January 2009, and where the idea of moving to an island first really took root) (you can also see the bottom of the island of Bute, and beyond that the mountains of the north of Arran):
and of course Harris from honeymoon (the first picture is as we arrived on the island, the second shows our honeymoon cottage on the shores of West Loch Tarbert):
I wonder what the next one will be? :)