In Scotland, on the way to Inverness, we stopped at the Culloden Battle Field Visitor Centre and explored. Every time I visit the site of a battle, any battle, I am struck by the sense of loss. No matter what the side, what the cause, what the era, the human life lost through conflict, combat and conquest lingers in such places ...
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It was no different at Culloden and the heavy skies moving in as we arrived added to the mood. Under threat of rain,we had to hurry out to the areas of the site where memorial cairns and grave markers dotted the landscape, and then the skies opened up. We did make it back to cover but considerably more damp that we would have preferred.
Not long afterwards, in true Sottish fashion, it cleared rapidly, blue and white dominating the sky and the sun shone bright overhead.
DJE
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