With all that rain and too warm wind these days, some sunny pics should brighten the spirits. And I found the sun where rumour has it you can seldom find it: in Scotland, back in June. The first photos show the view from my room in the B&B in Oban....

One morning I took the bus from Oban to Kilmartin Glen and asked the driver to drop me off somewhere in walking distance of Dunadd Hill Fort. That's the nice thing about busses in the UK, the local ones will drop you off and pick you up where you want....

OK, maybe not, but it would be fun to make such a series. I blame it - again - on Susan who resurrected the idea from last year. And I won't take any responsibility in case this spreads again. Blame it on the procrastination virus or something,...

Here are some more photos of a castle I visited in 2007, the charming ruins of Castle Hanstein, situated on a cliff high above the Werra river. I had mentioned that the Hanstein first appeared in historical documents when the chronicler Lambert of...

Or should that be Scary Halloween, lol? Get out of the woods before it's dark. A way in the Harz National Park