A Day Trip to Newgrange Ireland

 Newgrange is a fascinating place to visit. You actually get to climb inside the tomb. However, no photos are allowed inside so I can't show you how amazing it was. It is not easy to get to, it involves a lot of walking and being very bent over to get in but it is so worth it. 

 There is a nice museum at the Visitor Center that explains what all this is about. 

Spring has arrived in Portland

It has been a long time coming and it isn't quite warm consistently as of yet but some of the flowers in my yard have managed to push their way through. 

Low Clouds on the Shenandoah Mountains

As we were traveling between Winchester, Virginia and Harrisonburg, Virginia I noticed that the clouds were hanging so low on the mountains to our east that it looked like they had snow caps. These were taken from the car as I was a passenger.

A photo tour of the Rollright Stones

The Rollright Stones are a located on a hilltop on the border of Warwickshire and Oxfordshire. They are not as magnificent as Stonehenge but every bit as historic and a lot less crowded. They consist of:

~The Kings Men is a circle of about 70 odd stones that dates from about 2500 B.C.

~The King Stone is over eight feet tall and has stood on this hilltop since 1800 B.C.

  

~The Whispering Knights are perhaps as much as a 1000 years older than The Kings Men. 

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For additional information visit their website.

A photo tour of Belvoir Castle

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The home of the Duke of Rutland is open to the public. Belvoir Castle (pronounced Beaver) is still a family home and while it is quite magnificent it feels real. We were sitting outside and the family dog came and visited with us. We also ate in the tea room and it was really very good. 

A Photo Tour of Oatlands

Oatlands is located in Leesburg, Virginia and is one of the many homes in the area that has a connection to the Carter Family. (King Carter). I will do a post about Oatlands but for now, here is a brief picture tour of the house and grounds, indoor photography was not allowed.

The oldest greenhouse in Virginia

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This is just a taste of what Oatlands has to offer to visitors. 

A pictoral View of Andersonville Prisoner of War Camp

For about a year, from 1864-65 Andersonville held Union soldiers captured during the Civil War. It was deep in the state of Georgia in the middle of nowhere. Today, it has the National Prisoner of War Museum as well as a reconstruction of the gates of the infamous prison. 

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