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Monthly Archives: June 2019
At Melrose Abbey (preferably) by Moonlight
Melrose is a pretty town on the Tweed, although the Youth Hostel where we stayed for reasons of economy is very spartan indeed. We were there to visit the Abbey, preferably by moonlight (I’ll explain in a minute). In the … Continue reading
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Tagged A Tour in Tartanland, A Transatlantic Tour, Henry Blake McLellan, history of reading, J.M.W. Turner, literary landmark, literary landscape, literary museums, literary pilgrimage, literary tourism, literary tourist, love of literature, Melrose Abbey, Melrose Abbey: Moonlight, Nicola Watson James Watt and Dale Townshend 'Writing the Ruined Abbeys of Netley Tintern and Melrose' in Writing Britain's Ruins ed. Michael Carter Peter N. Lindfield and Dale Townshend, Sir Walter Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel, Thomas Moore, William Wordsworth
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