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Walking around Aberlour, visiting Linn Falls (Burn of Aberlour) and meeting a Giant Woodwasp.

And at the Old Craigellachie Bridge I learned a new term:
prefabricated lozenge-lattice cast iron arch bridge*, of which this is the "earliest survivor".

#Scotland #Alba #Highlands

* clear case for a German compound noun 😅

thenational.scot/politics/2536
"Here is the path that successful big ideas take. First they are impossible, then they are fringe, then they are minority, then they become mainstream, then they become a settled will, then they become legislation, and then they become reality."
#scottishindependence #snp #ScottishGreens #alba

The National · The independence movement has ignored a massive clue over its failureBy Robin McAlpine
Ross Fountain and Edinburgh Castle
🇬🇧 The famous cast-iron ‘Ross Fountain’ was made in France for the Great Exhibition of 1862 and was last restored in 2018.

🇩🇪 Der gusseisene Brunnen "Ross Fountain" wurde 1862 in Frankreich für die große Weltausstellung in South Kensington/London hergestellt und ist zuletzt 2018 restauriert worden.



#NikonD7200 | 40mm | f/14 | 1/800 Sek. | ISO 100 | 09/2023
#RossFountain #PrincessStreetGardens #EdinburghCastle #DunEdin #Edinburgh #Scotland #Alba #GreatBritain #UnitedKingdom #Schottland #Großbritannien #VereinigtesKönigreich #Brunnen #Gusseisen #fountain #castiron