More Maps!

I wanted to post these second maps so that all of the maps are here before I set off. They're not on the laptop that is travelling with me, and so they'll be where we can both refer to them!

When I leave Iona I backtrack along the route I take to get there - across to Mull, then on a bus from one side of Mull to the other, then across to Oban and back on the train to Glasgow - except instead of stopping in Glasgow I'll be continuing on to Edinburgh and the to Berwick on Tweed where I'll catch a bus to Beal and hopefully on to Lindisfarne, Holy Island. Failing that, it will be by taxi from Berwick on Tweed to Lindisfarne -- having to watch both bus timetables and the tidal timetable as well!

You can almost see Holy Island on this shot. But I hope it's a little clearer on this one.

I even traced part of my route to show you where Holy Island is ... and Glasgow and Edinburgh are underlined to help you get your bearings.



If you look closely on the map above, you will see the dotted line that is the tidal causeway to Holy Island! It feels like an adventure!

And if you click on any of the maps they will become larger - large enough for you read the place names and check out the surrounding towns.

All this with a click of a button, after spending a futile two hours attempting to do the same thing on the other blog. I'm sure you understand the reason for the switch.

Maps!

I wanted to find a way to share some maps with you, so that for the UK portion of my sabbatical, at least, you'd have some sense of "where in the world" I was.

The first is the trip from Glasgow to Oban. I didn't attempt to trace the route from Glasgow to Oban because I'm travelling by train and have no idea of the route of the railway is.




Actually, this map shows even more than that. But I played with one of them so that you can follow the route from Oban to Mull, first landing at Craignure, where I'll spend my first night in Scotland, and then following the main road, marked in red to Fionnphort where I'll ahve two nights before taking the ferry from Fionnphort to the Isle of Iona. On Iona the red circle is the Abbey which is where I'll spend my first week.

An Explanation

After spending a futile few hours struggling with the Weebly blog on a fully equipped computer with unlimited internet access, I came to the conclusion that I was likely to find it even more challenging where access was more limited, when I would be using a small netbook, and so I have come to the conclusion that before I leave for my sabbatical it makes the most sense for me to transfer my musings and reflections to a blog that is more easily manipulated.

So welcome to my new site. When our webmaster returns we will put a link to this new spot on the church web-site so that it will be easy to find me!

And if this is the first site you've visited, the old musings and my full sabbatical plans can be found here