A weather blasted, long dead hawthorn, still clings on at Langmaiden Feys, near Monreith in the Machars of Galloway.
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Farmhouse, near Whithorn.
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The harbour, Isle of Whithorn.
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The marshy hinterland, between the sea and the woods, near Rigg Bay, Garlieston, in the Machars of Galloway.
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Whithorn Priory, founded in the 12th C by Fergus, Lord of Galloway, on the site of a number of earlier churches. Possibly including the shrine of St Ninian and the first christian church in Scotland.
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St Ninian's Chapel, Isle of Whithorn. Dating from the 13th C, replacing an older building on the site. Beyond on the headland are the ramparts of an Iron Age promontory fort and a white tower, known as The Cairn.
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Garlieston is a pretty little village looking out to Wigtown Bay, on the coast of the Machars of Galloway. The section of coast between the village and Rigg Bay, in winter, could be described as beautifully bleak.
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This strange remnant of World War 2 is a section of Mulberry Harbour (a beetle), tested at Garlieston during 1943, prior to the D-Day landings. It now lies stranded, slowly corroding on the rocks at Eggerness Point. #blackandwhitephotography #Scotland #Galloway

»Die US-Wirtschaft werde schrumpfen, prophezeit er, die #EU werde aufgrund der jetzt nötigen Investitionen in Militär und Waffen wachsen. Die #USA würden abgehängt. […] Der Applaus für #Galloway im Saal zeigt, wie sehr das Publikum auf Aussagen wie seine gewartet hat. […] Galloways Vortrag wurde zwar live gestreamt und war zunächst auch als Aufzeichnung auf der Website der #SXSW abrufbar, am Montag aber plötzlich nicht mehr.«

https://www.zeit.de/digital/2025-03/sxsw-2025-tech-konferenz-austin-usa-donald-trump/seite-3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrpzESwXX3g

Take a pause for breath
Let the landscape revive you
Drink in the Mountains

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After an enforced hiatus due to the stormy weather we've had so much of, here's a new history video!

We're returning to Kenmure Castle for a more in depth look at it's long history.
With a wee bit of a different direction to the usual,  we're answering questions as to who lived here, how it got itself involved in Scotland's larger history and how it came to be in such a ruined state while we explore the ruin itself.

https://youtu.be/7LFqNK3h6wE

This eerie remnant of World War 2 is a section of Mulberry Harbour, tested at Garlieston during 1943, prior to the D-Day landings. It now lies stranded, slowly corroding on the rocks at Eggerness Point.

The Earlstoun Oak and the Price of Freedom
A hundred yards or so from Earlstoun Castle stands a lone oak tree. Battered by winds and lightning, it's story is woven into the very fabric of Galloway History, and speaks to a wider history of deforestation and exploitation of our natural landscape.

https://youtu.be/JsHYsxrRHYs