In the town of Oban is the monument that looks something from ancient Greece. It was built as a family monument, using local stonemasons, and only worked on in the winter months when the stonemasons would otherwise not have work.
These are some of the ruins of the nunnery on Iona.
The water off of Iona is the color of sapphire, so brilliantly blue and like nothing I have ever seen before.
Sunrise on Iona.
On e day we went on a boat trip to the nearby iland of Staffa. Staffa is a volcanic island with an extraordinary pattern of hexagonal basalt columns. You can walk along the edge of the island to Fingel's Cave.
Here's the opening of Fingel's Cave. I think JK Rowling must have had this cave in mind when she wrote about Harry Potter and Dumbledore going to find the horcrux locket.
Here's the start of our pilgrimage around Iona. We began at St. Martin's Cross.
Imagine an entire beach of these colorful stones. That's what we found at Columba's Bay. It was like being in a giant rock and gem store!
This is the hermit's cell - one of the most peaceful places on the entire island, I think.
This is the Abbey church, where we worshipped in the morning and in the evening each day.
This is St. Martin's Cross. All of the detail work are scenes from the Old Testament.
St. Oran's Chapel is the oldest building on the island, built in the 12th century. The graveyard is used by the local townspeople but also is the resting place of early Scottish kings as well as kings from Ireland, Norway, and France.
No comments:
Post a Comment