The year is 1645. The most virulent strain of the Bubonic Plague has immobilized Edinburgh, Scotland, claiming the lives of more than half the city’s population. The area hardest hit: Mary King’s Close on High Street, a busy thoroughfare and …
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Scotland:A GLIMPSE INTO THE PAST by Mary McIntosh
I stood on a grassy slope in Scotland and gazed down at Skara Brae, the village occupied by prehistoric people for six hundred years before the Romans occupied the British Isles. Included in a tour of Scotland was a visit …
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Mary King’s Close Edinburgh’s Major New Attraction
The year is 1645. The most virulent strain of the Bubonic Plague has immobilized Edinburgh, Scotland, claiming the lives of more than half the city’s population. The area hardest hit: Mary King’s Close on High Street, a busy thoroughfare and …
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Taking the Train in Cumbria by Mickey Merideth
When the taxi driver picked us up at our hotel in Edinburg to take us to Waverly station, he asked us where we were bound for. “Carlisle”, we answered happily. “Oh”, he said, “you must have friends or family there.” …
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