Scotland

This is the tiny Scottish island of Little Cumbrae in the Firth of Clyde, near Glasgow. It has a jetty, two cottages, three vacant houses, a lighthouse complex and a twelve bedroom baronial mansion... and it's currently for sale. The…

Well we've all finally recovered from James' wedding which took place this Saturday, and in true Scottish style there was a fantastically enthusiastic Céilidh which went on until we could barely stand up any more! As is traditional, we ended…

Edinburgh Zoo opened way back in 1913 and is probably most famous for the King Penguins, who have a daily "Penguin Parade" around their Penguin pool to the west, but for the thumbnail shot I've gone for the Darwin maze,…

This is the Acropolis in Athens, Greece. The Acropolis has an incredibly ancient history (described in some detail over at Wikipedia), but today it is best known for the most famous surviving building of Ancient Greece, the Parthenon (which is…

Here's one in Saint Lawrence bay, Quebec... ...a beached wreck off the Washington coast... ...and finally a super-cool submerged ship in the river Clyde, near Glasgow! (it's great posting Scottish things 😀 ) Thanks to Jacob, Jonny, troy, DDA, Jonathan…

As the Google Sightseeing team is based in Edinburgh, this was one of the first places we looked when we found out about Google Maps' new satellite images. Disappointingly however, they seem to have missed most of Edinburgh when they…