Today, I decided to head out of the city and spend the day in the Arrochar Alps. This was the view, including Beinn Narnain (right), the Cobbler (middle), and (I think) the Brack (left), with Loch Goil just making an appearance in the distance. I'll be back to photographing Glasgow tomorrow.
Loch Lomond and its surrounding peaks as seen yesterday from the top of Doughnot Hill just above Dumbarton. The Arrochar Alps are on the left (with the Cobbler just visible at the far end), while Ben Lomond is on the right. In the distance between them, are the hills around Crianlariach.
Triton, the son of Poseidon and Amphitrite, blowing a conch horn in the gardens of Culzean Castle on the Clyde coast. The fountain was designed by Austin and Sealy and was created in 1877.
Why don't we have a national #TouristTax in Scotland, and use some of the proceeds to improve, not close, local #VisitScotland tourist information centres?
VisitScotland is to close its network of information centres over the next two years. Instead it will shift to a digital-first strategy. All VisitScotland information centres – known as iCentres - will operate as usual until the end of September as part of phased two-year closure programme. VisitScotland is currently engaging with stakeholders to discuss local arrangements. Lord Thurso, VisitScotland Chair, said: …
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Sad news for me and all the other people preferring to talk to someone local (and in person) about things to do and see when we are touring #Scotland.
Also sad news for the great people working in the #VisitScotland information centres.
By closing their visitor centres they will cater even more for the kind of mass tourism that most other countries try to reduce now.
Looking down a snow-covered Ben Vane in the Arrochar Alps today to Loch Lomond and across to Loch Arklet and then a distant Loch Katrine, the source of Glasgow's water suppy since the 1850s.
Culzean Castle overlooking the Clyde coast near Ayr. It was designed for the Kennedy family by Robert Adam and was built towards the end of the 18th Century. It also served as the home of Lord Summerisle, played by Christopher Lee in the 1970s horror film The Wickerman.