From: Jack Fulton (jefulton1@comcast.net)
Date: 09/05/03-07:52:53 AM Z
on 9/4/03 11:38 PM, Kate Mahoney at kateb@paradise.net.nz wrote:
>
>> Glasgow has fabulous architecture. See the Burrell collection it is one of
>> the most eclectic gatherings of art and artifacts you'll ever see.
>> Also visit the Glasgow School of Art designed by Rene MacIntosh as well as
>> his home, Hill House, there and the tea room for tea and scones. Hill and
>> Adamson worked @ Rock House there.
Also, perhaps, if Larry Schaff is still on this list he might give you info
also.
> Hmmm that's Charles Rennie Mackintosh I believe :)
Exactly correct. One of the great architects.
>> Edinburgh has the Hills and Adamsons at the Scottish national Portrait
>> Gallery and this is the bicentennial of Hill's birth.
>> As to the countryside, drive north toward Ullapool and over toward
>> Inverness. Oh gosh, it is beautiful. See Balmoral. See the standing stones
>> of Callanish on the Isle of Lewis.
>> And, believe it or not, haggis aint bad. And I'm pretty much a vegetarian.
>
> Haggis is also practised here in Dunedin, New Zealand "The Edinburgh of the
> South" and I can attest to it's edibility....a dram with it to wash it down
> makes it all the nicer....
Indeed. Perhaps two drams. The Scots like to have a "wee doch 'n dorris"
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