Celtic Moment

Preview of Kevandsian’s blog at TravelPod. Read the full blog here: www.travelpod.com This blog preview was made by TravelPod using the TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow creator. Entry from: Culloden, United Kingdom Entry Title: “Urquhart Castle, Culloden and More” Entry: “Leaving Glen Affric we decided to take the scenic route back to Aberdeen. We stopped first a short distance away at Urquhart Castle which was once one of Scotland’s largest, but is now a ruin perched on the banks of Loch Ness. Although there’s been a castle on the site since at least 1230, it flipped back and forth into Scottish and English hands during the 11th and 12th centuries and in the process was attacked by both sides. It also played a role in the Scottish struggle for independence and in the 15th and 16th centuries was frequently raided and plundered by western clans. Repairs followed, but the castle fell into decline and in 1689 Urquhart Castle saw its last drama when a small garrison supporting the Protestant monarchy of William and Mary held off a much larger Jacobite force. The garrison later left, blowing up much of the castle as they did and so it was left to ruin. Its now an odd shape, built around two separate rocky outcrops. A beautiful, dramatic but peaceful site where you can lose yourself in the legends of history – it’s probably a must see for anyone visiting the area and you never know, you might just spot Nessie swimming in the loch. Our next stop was more drama and history at the …

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If you have a long English ancestry going back 400+ years of pure white English, son of pure white English parents, grandson of pure born raised in England, going back centuries,

you know you’re not just white and English! It doesn’t work that way.

You are part Angle, Part Saxon, part Jute, Part ancient Briton, and part of the Celts and some of those Celts became Scots and Irish and highlanders who dance with bagpipes and square dance and form labour clans

So you are anciently multicultural. The Celt part of you makes you wonder the green pastures in search of Elderberries. and support highland dances and labour activities.

the Anglo-Saxon Germanic part of you is why you worshipped Kingdoms and now capitalism and the Tories.

And what exactly were the Jutes? These Beowolf Dependent on the Franks who were a Germanic tribe called Euthioness?

The Jutes are the ones who probably gave birth to Margaret Thatcher?
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