(Nearly) favorite photos of places we visited our second year

In February I shared our favorite family photos, and our nearly favorite family photos, from our second year in Scotland. They're not from the calendar year of 2015 but rather from our second year, running from mid-June 2014 to mid-June 2015. Many apologies for my lack of efficiency.

The photos below I thought were striking in one way or another. They're not necessarily, however, our favorite places we visited. Rather, they're some of my favorite photos of places: landscapes, ruins, cityscapes, and so on.

Stay tuned for the upcoming post of my true favorites in the next week or two.

Peeking over the wildflowers outside St. Andrews Castle, Scotland.

Piercingly bright day at Hampton Court Palace, in Greater London.

Lantern outside the Old Presbytery bed and breakfast in Kinsale, Ireland, one of our very favorite B&Bs in Europe.

Winter festivities in St. George's Square in Glasgow, Scotland.

The dolmen portal tomb in The Burren, Ireland, is a Neolithic masterpiece.

A view of mainland Scotland from the Isle of Skye.

The entry gate to Edinburgh Castle in the evening, just before a performance at the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo.

Springtime at the St. Andrews Suspension Bridge, a pedestrian walkway in Glasgow, Scotland.

You get expansive views of Athens from the neighborhood of Anafiotika, at the base of the Acropolis.

A fantastic specimen of a Highland hairy cow (a "hairy coo") in Kilmartin Glen, Scotland.

View from the Grand Battery of cannons at Stirling Castle toward the William Wallace Monument.

The Rock of Cashel sits on a limestone plug in County Tipperary, Ireland.

Cloisters on the campus of the University of Glasgow.

A bridge on the grounds of Inverary Castle in Argyll, Scotland.

A gorgeous afternoon on the island of Inchcailloch in Loch Lomond, Scotland.

We enjoyed an Easter egg hunt at Pollock House in Glasgow, Scotland.

Sheep graze on the windswept golf course on the Isle of Iona.

A glimpse of the ruins of Urquhart Castle on the banks of Loch Ness.

The Dugald Stewart Monument, derived from the famed Lysicrates Monument in Athens, sits on Calton Hill in Edinburgh.

The magnificently sited Drombeg Stone Circle in County Cork, Ireland.

Did you enjoy those? Here are my favorite family pics of our second year in Scotland:




Favorite family photos of our second year in Scotland




 
 
(Nearly) favorite family photos of our second year in Scotland







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Favorite photos of places we visited our first year






(Nearly) favorite photos of places we visited our first year






Favorite family photos of our first year in Scotland






(Nearly) favorite family photos of our first year in Scotland