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Post by Nonfatman on Jun 18, 2011 18:32:40 GMT -5
Returning now to this thread, with some more photos from Kilmarie and Dun Ringill. The first is Mike and I, by the front gates, the second is the house photographed from the Kilmarie graveyard. Jeff
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Post by Nonfatman on Jun 18, 2011 18:42:53 GMT -5
Here's Mike, not nearly as concerned about a 'gun-toting laird' as Darin was when he visited. ;D Bottom photo is Mike on the footbridge over the Abhainn Cille Mahaire. You take the bridge to get to the walking paths that lead down to Dun Ringill. Ian is seen crossing the bridge in a certain documentary. Jeff
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Post by Nonfatman on Jun 18, 2011 21:05:43 GMT -5
If you look closely, you can see me "down by Dun Ringill" in the top photo, with a stone circle in the background. I think the fort is beyond the stone circle, but I don't believe we had time to go there. We only had 24 hours on Skye before we had to drive back to Glasgow to see the first of five Tull shows on our trip. In the bottom photo you can see our van in the distance, at the end of the road near the graveyard, where there is a small parking area across from Dun Ringill. Jeff
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Post by Nonfatman on Jun 18, 2011 21:16:29 GMT -5
Kilmarie graveyard, the inspiration for the song Old Ghosts, and another pic from somewhere on Skye. Jeff
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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2011 18:32:33 GMT -5
Me and my venerable ford at Viewfield House, Portree, Skye, August 90
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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2011 18:55:21 GMT -5
Dun Ringell
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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2011 18:58:38 GMT -5
Down in between the walls of Dun Ringell. Note the fire ring lower left. I imagined the laird having a little camp out with the mrs.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2011 19:02:16 GMT -5
No it's not what your thinking! It's a rams horn I picked up at Dun Ringell. Sits under glass in my den with some other bones I've picked up while traveling. (Shame on you)
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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2011 19:05:00 GMT -5
I walked across the Kilmarie Graveyard down to the water (behind me) and up the coast to Dun Ringell
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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2011 19:08:51 GMT -5
That's me saying "There's the salmon farm (snap) across the bay!" on Skye Aug 90
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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2011 19:15:12 GMT -5
My room at Viewfield House. The US just started "Operation Desert Sheild" so I was reading everything I could, and my companion thought I was paying attention to the wrong things!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2011 19:34:21 GMT -5
Nestled in the trees is Strathaird Estate, I didn't know you could walk up to it without getting shot....
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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2011 19:37:40 GMT -5
Elgol at the end of the Strathaird Penninsula on Skye. Had some fishn' chips. They were having a heat wave...it was 70 degrees.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2011 19:39:59 GMT -5
Detail of the Skye map in the front of my photo album.
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Post by jtul07 on Sept 14, 2011 21:11:05 GMT -5
Great pics of your trip. Were you staying at a special place for tourists or something more private? I loved the documentary that Ian made about the area and salmon farming. He must have eventually lost interest in the whole idea but gained some inspiration for many songs. Were there any local reminders of Ian's business? I wonder if he kept it low key or if he was considered a Rock star just trying to have an escape from touring.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2011 21:28:23 GMT -5
Great pics of your trip. Were you staying at a special place for tourists or something more private? I loved the documentary that Ian made about the area and salmon farming. He must have eventually lost interest in the whole idea but gained some inspiration for many songs. Were there any local reminders of Ian's business? I wonder if he kept it low key or if he was considered a Rock star just trying to have an escape from touring. JTull07, Ian sold Strathaird Estate and the salmon farm to a conservency in Skye a few years back. He employed quite a few people on the island and there he was a star for that reason. When he first bought the estate he had to prove to the locals that he was there to actually try to improve things monetarily and not just use it as a rock stars toy. Its a very depressed area, everyone seemed to have 2 jobs. I heard his name mentioned in the pub and the inn at Broadford while I was having a fine bowl of chili and rice. I stayed, as did Jeff here and his friends did (see their pics above) at a B&B called Viewfield House in Portree. A beautiful place, storybook.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2011 21:33:33 GMT -5
This was 1990, Ian was in London while I was there at his place, his business was alive and well, I thought I was trespassing and about to be shot by a one legged shotgun totting laird when I was at Dun Ringell!
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Post by Nonfatman on Sept 23, 2011 20:24:06 GMT -5
Great pics, Darin, and what a fantastic thread this is turning out to be! It's cool that you made it out to the Dun Ringill fort itself. We were at Dun Ringill, but went no further than than the stone circle near Ian's Kilmarie estate, because we didn't have very much time. We only had one day on Skye. We drove their from the Glasgow airport the day we first arrived from the U.S. and stayed overnight at Viewfield House, but then we had to head back to Glasgow the next afternoon for the first of five shows on our ten day excursion. So we tried to see as much as we could in the space of that 24 hours. I think the last stop we made before leaving Skye was the Straithaird hatchery. We posed for some pictures by the famous sign, but didn't actually tour the facility, either because it was closed or we simply did not have time, I'm not sure which. We then loaded up the unbelievably cramped mini-van, stacked our luggage dangerous high on the luggage rack on top, checked out of Viewfield House and started the drive back to Glasgow, where we saw the first show of our trip. I know this thread is supposed to be only about Skye, but I thought I would post photos of some of the other highlights of our trip. Straithaird and Royal Glasgow Hall signs: Handbill for the Glasgow show, with the reverse autographed by Pegg and Giddings who we met after the show: Photo from show, and Mike "Icecreamman" Grin with Andy Giddings afterward. Next up: Newcastle and Sheffield. Jeff
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Post by Deleted on Sept 24, 2011 10:19:57 GMT -5
Well I kick myself for not being more brave in my exploration to walk back up the road past the Kilmarie House. You guys got the shows too, a reward in and of themselves. What an arrangement 5 shows and backstage! You did miss learning to drive on the (other) side of the road on those single track roads, a complete adventure on it's own! I could easily go back, I was single and on my own back then, easier to plan, ssshhhh. (My wife likes tropical beaches, which aren't bad either but I'm due!) Maybe a visit to Cropready is in order. Does Ian regularly play the festival these days? Maybe a stay over at Peggs B&B in Brittany!!
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Post by Nonfatman on Sept 29, 2011 20:53:15 GMT -5
Well I kick myself for not being more brave in my exploration to walk back up the road past the Kilmarie House. You guys got the shows too, a reward in and of themselves. What an arrangement 5 shows and backstage! You did miss learning to drive on the (other) side of the road on those single track roads, a complete adventure on it's own! I could easily go back, I was single and on my own back then, easier to plan, ssshhhh. (My wife likes tropical beaches, which aren't bad either but I'm due!) Maybe a visit to Cropready is in order. Does Ian regularly play the festival these days? Maybe a stay over at Peggs B&B in Brittany!! You're right, it was a great trip organized by this guy Jerry Adessa, who along with this other guy Doug Sortino, was the organizer of the first Tull parties and conventions in the U.S. A year earlier he did a similar, even better tour of England and Germany, also incorporating a number of shows, but I foolishly missed that one. I wasn't about to miss his second expedition, though. The Cropredy tour for next year, seems like another once in a lifetime opportunity. Have you seen my separate thread on that? Jeff
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Post by jtul07 on Aug 1, 2012 16:06:46 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2012 23:18:33 GMT -5
My room at Viewfield House. The US just started "Operation Desert Sheild" so I was reading everything I could, and my companion thought I was paying attention to the wrong things! Going through this old thread and noticed that a few pictures were knocked out. Just removing broken seashells from the beach DC
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2012 23:22:36 GMT -5
No it's not what your thinking! It's a rams horn I picked up at Dun Ringell. Sits under glass in my den with some other bones I've picked up while traveling. (Shame on you) Another fix that was missing.
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Post by Nonfatman on Aug 20, 2012 16:56:56 GMT -5
I thought I'd post this photo as a postscript to the portion of this thread that's about the trip I took to the UK, with 10 or 11 other fans, for the 25th anniversary tour in 1993. After leaving Skye, we went to Glasgow for our first show, and then made our way south toward London, stopping for shows at Sheffield and Newcastle, and then two more shows in London. This photo is from backstage at either the Newcastle or Sheffield show, I'm not sure which. Pictured, from left to right are Liz, Rick, Claire, Icecreamman, Ian, me, Mrs. Icecreamman and another Rick. There is a second photo taken right before or after this one, where my eyes are closed and I look very gay.....like I'm in heaven or something.....so I went with this one instead. Jeff
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Post by Non Rabbit on Nov 20, 2014 18:04:09 GMT -5
In view of the recent thread about Ian complaining about people getting too close for comfort, I thought I might share a picture of me outside Ian's estate home in Skye when he dabbled in fish farming. I can't give an exact year but it was before I was married, and after the Stormwatch album cause that's me with the bins as per album cover. Based on this it was taken somewhere around 1986 I was staying at a mate's old man's original family cottage and at first I scrambled up the garden wall to have a look and was met by a guy with a big dog asking if he could help me. NR Attachments:
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