{"id":91,"date":"2008-11-02T18:29:53","date_gmt":"2008-11-02T18:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dur.ac.uk\/paul.hodgkinson\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/11\/scotland-2008\/"},"modified":"2023-03-09T13:36:49","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T13:36:49","slug":"scotland-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/2008\/11\/scotland-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Scotland 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A set of photos from a mini tour of Scotland in August: driving up Glasgow for a PhD viva, across to Edinburgh for the weekend with friends, before spending a few days with another friend in Fife.  This was the closest I got to a proper holiday this summer!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/2008\/11\/scotland-2008\/edinburgh-swordsale\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/Edinburgh_SwordSale-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Edinburgh SwordSale\" title=\"Edinburgh SwordSale\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-4873\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Sign on a shop on the <a title=\"Wikipedia on the Royal Mile\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Royal_mile\">Royal Mile<\/a>, Edinburgh.  Is a &#8220;sword sale&#8221; really a good idea?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/2008\/11\/scotland-2008\/edinburgh-parasol\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/Edinburgh_Parasol-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Edinburgh Parasol\" title=\"Edinburgh Parasol\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-4872\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An immature <a title=\"Wikipedia on the shaggy parasol\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shaggy_parasol\">shaggy parasol<\/a> growing in the <a title=\"Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rbge.org.uk\/\">Edinburgh botanical gardens<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/2008\/11\/scotland-2008\/fife-church\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/Fife_Church-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Fife Church\" title=\"Fife Church\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-4877\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The parish church of <a title=\"Wikipedia on St Monans\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/St_Monans\">St Monans<\/a>, Fife.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/2008\/11\/scotland-2008\/fife-bunkerentrance\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/Fife_BunkerEntrance-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Fife BunkerEntrance\" title=\"Fife BunkerEntrance\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-4874\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The entrance to the <a title=\"Troy Wood bunker\" href=\"http:\/\/www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk\/anstruther\/secretbunker\">Troy Wood bunker<\/a>, disguised as an unremarkable Scottish farmhouse.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/2008\/11\/scotland-2008\/fife-bunker\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/Fife_Bunker-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Fife Bunker\" title=\"Fife Bunker\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-4875\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/2008\/11\/scotland-2008\/fife-engineeringworkshop\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/Fife_EngineeringWorkshop-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Fife EngineeringWorkshop\" title=\"Fife EngineeringWorkshop\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-4876\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The bunker served a number of roles, the final being the emergency seat of government for Scotland in the event of a nuclear conflict (it&#8217;s easy to forget the very real threat of nuclear armageddon in the Cold War).  With the ebbing of the nuclear threat, the bunker was decommissioned in 1992 and opened as a privately-run tourist attraction in 1994.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/2008\/11\/scotland-2008\/fife-pittenweemharbour\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/Fife_Pittenweemharbour-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Fife Pittenweemharbour\" title=\"Fife Pittenweemharbour\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-4878\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Boats in Pittenweem harbour.  Today&#8217;s fishing fleet is a tiny remnant of what used to be a major industry along the whole of the Fife coast, fishing for <a title=\"Wikipedia on herring\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Herring\">herring<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A set of photos from a mini tour of Scotland in August: driving up Glasgow for a PhD viva, across to Edinburgh for the weekend with friends, before spending a few days with another friend in Fife. 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