Touring Scotland(1990)
Touring this historic, romantic and ruggedly beautiful land, from it's craggy ocean shores to its North Sea islands--from its mist-shrouded mountains to its ancient cities. This is Scotland! Embarking from the colorful Borders and Hadrian's Wall we travel to the abbeys, and to Gretna Green. To Ayr, Dumfries and Culzean Castle, with its memories of General Eisenhower. And on to the Cinderella city of Glasgow and Loch Lomond. To Oban, Ben Nevis, Glenfinnan and haunting Glencoe. Excursion to fabled island--Skye, holy Iona and "Fingal's Cave"--and on to the Orkneys and the Shetlands, renowned for their loveable ponies.
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Touring this historic, romantic and ruggedly beautiful land, from it's craggy ocean shores to its North Sea islands--from its mist-shrouded mountains to its ancient cities. This is Scotland! Embarking from the colorful Borders and Hadrian's Wall we travel to the abbeys, and to Gretna Green. To Ayr, Dumfries and Culzean Castle, with its memories of General Eisenhower. And on to the Cinderella city of Glasgow and Loch Lomond. To Oban, Ben Nevis, Glenfinnan and haunting Glencoe. Excursion to fabled island--Skye, holy Iona and "Fingal's Cave"--and on to the Orkneys and the Shetlands, renowned for their loveable ponies.
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