Meeting Dans Idol John Smith On The Isle Of Iona
Isle Of Iona continues with a visit to Iona Abbey & St Orans Chapel where Dan gets very excited to pay a visit to his all time idol...John Smith. Camera problems in the rain tried to spoil it for us but we made it through the day with some great laughs.
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Isle of Iona May 2016
Seaweed trying to leave....
Isle of Staffa to Iona the Island West of Mull
If you have been watching the other videos of our Three Isles Tour series then you will know that visiting Iona is the final island destination of the tour. If you haven't seen the earlier videos, see a list of links to them in the description below.
As we approached Iona, the skipper of our small boat advised the best place to have lunch was the restaurant close to the ferry pickup point as the hotel would have finished serving at this time. This we did and a nice lunch it was. Of course as part of my lunch I has to try a plate of those fresh local mussels mentioned by our coach driver who drove us from Craignure to Fionnphort. My wife took a notion for her favourite soup, Cullen Skink which she said was delicious.
With lunch out of the way, we set off to visit the Abbey. Things are very quiet here on Iona with just the handful of visitors like ourselves and the few friendly locals we passed on the way.
Very soon we arrived at the ruins of the Nunnery which dates to the 13th century. You will find a poster here which gives good details about its history.
Carrying on along this small path takes us back onto the main road where after a short walk we reached the Graves of the Kings and in the left hand corner sits St Oran’s Chapel.
Kings from Scotland, Ireland and France lie here and perhaps surprisingly due to the history of Iona, Viking kings as well. Even Macbeth, yes that Macbeth of Shakespeare fame. Another, although not a king is John Smith who was the leader of the Labour Party in 1992 until he died of a heart attack 1994.
Just next to the Graves of the Kings is where you will buy the tickets to the Abbey. There is so much to see in both the Abbey and the museum that you will need to keep moving along, if you don't want to miss your ferry.
The museum is a must, as this is where so many interesting items have been placed including a replica of the Book of Kells.
For us it was time to head back and catch the ferry for the short crossing back to Fionnphort. As with the time on Staffa flying by, the same applies here on Iona. There are hotels in Iona as there are in Fionnphort so the next time we visit this area we will be staying for a longer spell.
The crossing time is only around 20 minutes but if the weather is clear and you look to the south, you will be able to pick out the easily recognised Paps of Jura.
Embarking from the ferry it's only a short walk to our coaches waiting in the car park. Now we will be heading back to catch the Craignure to Oban ferry. Which will be the final part of this wonderful trip.
Iona
Iona is a small island in the Inner Hebrides off the Ross of Mull on the western coast of Scotland. It was a centre of Gaelic monasticism for four centuries and is today renowned for its tranquility and natural beauty. It is a popular tourist destination and a place for retreats. Its modern Gaelic name means Iona of Columba.
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How rocks perceive time and the beginnings of a new stone circle.
This video covers a recent pilgrimage to the Isle of Iona, Scotland, and the teachings I received from the unseen peoples dwelling there. From a shamanic viewpoint I learnt how the beings of the stones perceive the passing of time and I describe a spirit rescue mission I was asked to carry out whilst there. I then describe how a new sacred space has been energetically forming in my garden and discuss how this has given me insights regarding more ancient stone circles.
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8th Century cross of St Martin is from the blog post Echoes of the Past, Exploration of the past. ( taken by Lynne in 2013
The reassembled high crosses of St John, St Oran and St Matthew inside the Abbey Museum.
Sunrise lighting from blog post by Blair Bailey Adventures in Art Conservation, 2013. (
Sunset lighting from Urban Realm, 2014, (
The Layers of the Ionosphere from
Barclodiad-y-Gawres Burial Chamber on Anglesey, sourced from Pen-y-Llyn Leisure, 2017 (
Rosslyn Chapel, photographed by Erin Bembe from Bembes Abroad, 2013 (
Kettley Crag rock shelter, Northumberland, showing 'cups' surrounded by multiple 'rings'... Sourced from England's Rock Art : ERA Home (
Sun glowing off Iona Abbey... Sourced from Mckinlaykidd.com (
The photo of the Mound of the Faeries and the road leading to it are both sourced from the Faery Folklorist, 2015, (
The Apprentice Pillar inside Rosslyn Chapel is © Rosslyn Chapel Trust/ Simon Brighton.
map of the UK with Iona marked is sourced from vacationstogo.com (
Isle of Iona postcard published by The Iona Community. Image sourced from (
Newgrange light at winter solstice:
© Edward Watson 2013, (
Newgrange drawing of cut away mound:
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CLAN MCSPARRON - Scottish Clan of Kintyre (Sept of the Clan Donald)
The name MacSporran seems to originate from the Kintyre penninsula in western Scotland and is commonplace there even today. The McSparran and McSparron variants can invariably be traced back to County Antrim in the north east of Ireland and they can also still be found there. In fact only a few miles of water separate the Antrim coast from Kintyre. The names McSparren, McSparen, McSparrin and McSparin occur today only in north America but are almost certainly also of Irish descent. The name McSpurren is found in Scotland and in Canada.
The Clan MacSporran Association was formed in 1975 and held a gathering in Scotland every year until it was dissolved in 2002.
Although the MacSporrans are not accepted as a distinct clan by the Lord Lyon, they are recognised as a sept of the Clan Donald. As a sept, there is an officially recognised tartan, based on the MacDonald design but with a distinctive gold stripe
It is said that Donald, first Lord of the Isles, appointed a court of 16 office bearers in the twelfth century. These were either close family members or persons of high position, and each was given a hereditary title, including Beth (physician), Murrich (bard), Lavery (speaker) and Sporran (pursebearer). Thus only one person at any one time held the name until 1497 when the Lordship was annexed by the Stuart King of Scotland. Today the title Lord of the Isles is nominally held by Prince Charles.
A 1910 edition of an early medieval chronicle The Annals of Man comments that Paul Sporain was a Prince of the Isles and a chief at the time of Somerled. A charter of 1168 refers to a reigning chief Paul O'Duine as Pol an Sporain. The legends of Kintyre record this Paul as leaving his daughter Eva as his heir and from her marriage with Gillespie Cambel came the founding of Clan Campbell.
The graves of Paul and Gilbred Sporain are reputed to lie amongst the tombs of ancient kings on the Isle of Iona off the west coast of Scotland. Martin in his book A Description of the Western Islands says of his visit to Iona in 1695, In the West End is the tombs of Gilbrid and Paul Sporan, ancient tribes of the Mack-Donalds.
The book Antiquities of Iona by Robert Graham of 1850 documents the position of the gravestone of Paul An Sporain in the north-east corner of St Orans chapel. In about 1926 a new floor was laid in the chapel and the stones were moved. The stone identified as Paul's can now be located in the left hand corner, third along, standing upright. The slab is 1.8m high and 0.6m wide and depicts a serpent entwined around a column of eleven discs, supposedly silver coins. There is no name or other inscription on the stone.
The earliest recorded person of the modern spelling was Duncan Roy McSpairand, a tacksman of the Twa Duchries in 1541. This farm area is near Carradale on the east coast of Kintyre. A tacksman was an administrator of lands for the landowner.
A coat of arms, though now faded, exists in Dungiven Priory in northern Ireland. It depicts a sheaf of wheat and reaping hook surmounted by a dove with an olive spray. At the left is a lion rampant, at the right an eagle with opening wings. The motto on a partially unrolled scroll is Pro Patria with four Scottish thistles. Legend states that two brothers came from Kintyre to Ireland about 1600 and around 1620 a Gilaspick (Archibald) McSparran is recorded in Coleraine.
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Inchcolm Abbey & Forth Belle boat tour.
The first church was built in the mid-1100's. Of the original building, only the nave remains. Built of fine ashlar - blocks of squared stone - it probably bore some resemblance to St. Fillans Church, just across the water.
The second church was built after the devastating wars of Independence, possibly on the orders of Abbot Walter Bower. The whole building was covered by pointed stone barrel vaults similar to those which still survive at Dunglass Collegiate Church, near Cockburnspath in the Borders.
Inchcolm has the best-preserved cloister in Scotland, although most of what survives dates from the later medieval period and represents a far-from-typical arrangement. Its earliest surviving building is the chapter house, which dates from the 1200's, demonstrating that an earlier phase of buildings existed here.
Most of the cloister buildings were built in the 1400's, around the same time as the second church. However, variations in the masonry suggest that the walls incorporate earlier work. To make use of the existing structure, the later cloister buildings were built adjacent to the old church rather than the new one. A curiosity of the chapter house is that the handsome entrance doorway faces into the room, rather than outwards as might normally be expected and that its base is partly covered over. It is possible that the doorway slightly pre-dates the chapter house and was originally associated with some other structure.
The brethren who settled on Inchcolm were Augustinians, so-called because they were following the teachings of St. Augustine of Hippo, a theologian and philosopher who lived AD 354-430 in Numidia (now Algeria).
The life of the canons on Inchcolm was organised around a schedule of Masses, held at set times throughout the day and night. A mass dial, found at Incholm, is one of very few to have survived in Scotland. It would have been used as a sundial to chart the time dictating when the bells in the tower were to be tolled, calling the canons to worship.
An Edinburgh based sight seeing co., Forth Boat Tours takes patrons along Scotland's central waterway, the Firth of Forth on board the 98ft cruiser, Forth Belle. A meandering river that rises at Loch Ard and meets the sea just east of Edinburgh, the Firth of Forth is flanked by breath-taking scenery and is rich in offshore wildlife including seabirds, porpoises and seals.
A site of historical interest, the Forth has seen the rise and fall of the Roman Empire and invasions from England. Saint Margaret used the crossing from South Queensferry to North Queensferry to go from her chapel in Edinburgh Castle to the then capital-Dunfermline (Hence the name Queensferry).
Eilean a' Cheo Gaelic Song Scotland
Tour Scotland travel video of the Eilean a' Cheo, The Misty Isle of Skye, Gaelic song by a female solo singer from the Gaelic Choir on visit to Dundee.
Ged tha mo cheann air liathadh
Le deuchainnean is bròn
Is grian mo leth-cheud bliadhna
Air ciaradh fo na neòil
Tha m' aigne air an liònadh
Le iarrtas tha ro mhór
A dh'fhaicinn Eilean Sgiathach
Na siantanan 's a' cheò
Tha còrr 's da fhichead bliadhna
Bho'n thriall mi uait gam' dheòin
'S a chuir mi sìos mo lìon
Ann am meadhon baile mhóir
Is ged a fhuair mi iasgaír
A lìon mo thaigh le stòr
Bu chuimhneachail mi riamh ort
'S bu mhiann leam bhi 'nad chòir
Ach có aig a bheil cluasan
No crìdh' tha gluasad beò
Nach seinneadh leam an duan seo
Mu'n truaigh' a thàinig òirnn?
Na mìlltean a chaidh fhuadach
Thar chuain gun chuid, 's gun chòir
Tha miann an crìdh' 's an smuaintean
Air Eilean uain' a' Cheò
Cuimhichibh gur sluagh sibh
Is cumaibh suas ’ur còir
Tha beartas bho na cruachan
Far an d' fhuair sibh àrach òg
Tha iarrainn agus gual ann
Tha luaidhe glas is òr
Tha meinnean gu ’ur buannachd
An Eilean Uain' a' Cheò
Nis, cuimhnichibh ur cruadal
Is cumaibh suas ur sròl
Gu'n téid an roth mu'n cuairt duibh
Le neart is cruas nan dòrn
Gum bi bhur crodh air buailtean
'S gach tuathanach air dòigh
'S na Sas'nnaich air am fuadach
A Eilean uain' a' Cheò
Although my head has grayed
With forgetfulness and sadness
And the sun of my fifty years
Has darkened under the clouds
My thoughts are filled
With a great desire
To see the Isle of Skye
The elements and the mist
It is more than forty years
Since I left you willingly
And I put down roots
In the middle of the city
And although I married a fisherman
Who filled my house with wealth
You are forever on my mind
And I long to be in your shelter
But who has ears
Or a heart that beats with life
Who will not sing this song with me
About the hardship which has befallen us?
The thousands who were cleared
Deprived of their belongings and their rights
The desires of their hearts and their thoughts
Are on the Green Isle of the Mist
Remember you are a people
and fight for you rights
There are riches under the hills
where you grew up
There is iron and coal there
There is grey lead and gold there
There are mines for you to profit from
On the Green Isle of the Mist
Now remember your hardship
And keep your banner flying
For the wheel of change will not go 'round for you
Without strength and hardness of fist
Your cattle will be in their folds
And every farmer will be happy
And the English would be ousted
From the Green Isle of the Mist
Some say that Skye owes its name to the Vikings who settled on the island more than 1000 years ago. They called it Skyuo, Island of Cloud. Others derive the name from the Gaelic Sgitheanach, meaning Winged Isle. Gaels today know it as Eilean a' Cheo, the Misty Isle.
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Bill Schnoebelen Interview with an Ex Vampire (4 of 9) Multi - Language
According to Bill, there was a movie in the 80s called The Howling that featured a real werewolf transformation on camera because the special effect guys at the time couldn't make a transformation look authentic.
Bill said they closed the set and filmed it. (I'll try to upload it if it doesn't get flagged for copyright infringement).
This is part 4 in a 9 part series on the rituals and lifestyle associated with vampires.
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