One of the towns we visited was Brechin, about 2 hours north of Edinburgh. Now Brechin is an interesting town (populatioon about 7000) for the following reasons:
1. It has a very nice 13th Century cathedral, with a round tower dating from about 1000AD.
2. Robert Watson-Watt, an important pioneer in the early development of radar was born there.
3. As was my great-great-grandfather, William Ross.
William was the illegitimate son of a woman called Jessie Mitchell. He emigrated to Australia as a young man, but his own son moved back to England, before HIS son (my grandfather) moved back to Australia. I had some time to go to the cathedral, and I found this in the churchyard:
It was also really awesome meeting some real live Scottish students, in their second ever week of high school. Here I am with a few of them:
Thanks, Edinburgh Book Festival and Scottish Book Trust for showing me such a great time!
1 comment:
i was born inscotland and i think that was a really good blog. thanks for coming to my school- saint ignatius.
mahala
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