Places to visit

Duart Castle - Caisteal Dhubhairt believed to have been built by Clan MacDougall in the 13th century is located at Duart Point on the Isle of Mull (Scottish Gaelic: An t-Eilean Muileach. Duart is sited to give maximum defensive capability. It is on a high crag at the end of a peninsula that juts into the Sound of Mull. Thus giving it commanding position on the channel between Mull and the mainland. Along with the entrances to Lochs Linne and Etive and the neck of the Firth of Lorne as it meets the Sound of Mull. The castle came into the possession of the Clan Maclean in the 14th century.  The Keep that protects the landward side of the castle is very substantial. It was built by Chief Lachlan Lubanach Maclean in the 14th century. Duart is the ancestral home of the Clan MacLean was the site of battles between them and the Clan Campbell in the seventeenth century. The castle was put under siege by Cromwell's forces during the Civil War and HMS Swann along with other ships sank at the site during a storm in September 1653.  After 1751 the castle was abandoned but in 1911 bought back by the MacLeans and the castle restored. The castle is open to the public.

Orkney/Arcaibh is made up of some seventy islands about ten miles north of Caithness in northeast Scotland. Mainland, one of twenty inhabited islands, is the largest and Kirkwall the Orkney capital is located there. The islands have been inhabited for at least eight and a half thousand years and were occupied by the Mesolithic (Middle Stone Age), Neolithic (New Stone Age) and then Pict tribes. The Picts were thought to have spoken a Brythonic language, one of the two inter Celtic language families. The Picts later merged in with the Gaels, who spoke the other inter Celtic language Goidelic whose language and culture would eventually become dominant in the Pictish area. In 875 AD Orkney came under Norse rule and was subsequently annexed to the Scottish Crown in 1472. Under Norse rule Orkney and Shetland were known as the Northern Isles (Nordreyjar) as distinct from the Southern Isles (Sordreyjar) which comprised the Hebrides, the islands of the Firth of Clyde and the Isle of Man.

Rennes is the administrative capital of the Brittany, although not the historical capital which is Nantes. The eastern Armorican people of Redones founded Condate, which is an old Celtic word meaning confluence.

This is the largest Menhir in Brittany standing at almost ten metres in height. The granite Neolithic monument is located in Dol-de-Bretagne which is along the D795 north from Combourg.