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    Robbie Burns and Brigadoon

    August 29, 2015 in Scotland ⋅ ⛅ 63 °F

    At 2:15 pm we ended our tour of Robbie Burns’s birthplace. At 2:30 photographed Cross Raguel Abbey just south of Maybole. I was very much aware of the fact that just east of us, behind some hills lay Galloway National Park. I yearned to know whether my ancestors had been in this place, why they left, and what kinds of lives they lived.Read more