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  • Waves crash in on the Butt of Lewis (the north end) on the Isle of Lewis.  This is the farthest north tip of the Outer Hebrides.
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  • Views of the harbor in Castlebay as night falls on the Isle of Barra, Outer Hebrides, Scotland.
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  • Light from the nearby growing city of Moab fills the sky over Balanced Rock formation in Arches National Park. Park officials are worried about the growing effects of light pollution.
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  • On the Isle of Iona off the coast of Isle of Mull, the home of Christianity in Scotland.
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  • Katy MacLoed playing in The Ewe pub at Fortingall Hotel in Fortingall, Scotland.  Fortingall Lodge, Scotland
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  • Polperro is a well-known fishing village on the south coast of Cornwall, famous for it's beautiful harbor and history of fishing and smuggling.
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  • Views of the harbor in Castlebay as night falls on the Isle of Barra, Outer Hebrides, Scotland.
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  • View of Conwy, famous for the castle overlooking the River Conwy.<br />
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Conwy is the classic walled town. Its circuit of walls, over three quarters of a mile long and guarded by no less than 22 towers, is one of the finest in the World.
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  • Sunrise at Stonehenge on the Summer Solstice.  20,000 revelers wait to greet the sunrise at Stonehenge.
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  • The Archbishop and monks at the Celtic Orthodox Monastery of Sainte-Dolay in Brittany.  The monks eat communally outside under and awning.  Morning sunlight casts warm light though the incense of mass.
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  • Nant Gwynant is a beautiful valley above the town of Beddgelert in North Wales.
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  • Morning at Hafod y Llan farm with John Till, farm manager, and his crew as they move sheep back up into the hills of Snowdownia National Park.  The farm is owned by the National Trust.
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  • Polperro in Cornwall is an ancient fishing village, rich in the history of smuggling.
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  • Inside J. Courrain pub in Dingle.  One of the older pubs, still selling hardware also.  On the counter can be seen the old grocery scale.
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  • National Championship of traditional music in Gourin, Brittany.
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  • The Harlech Medieval Society demonstrating battle techniques and costume in Caernarfon Castle, Caernarfon, Wales.
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  • Waves crash in on the Butt of Lewis (the north end) on the Isle of Lewis.  This is the farthest north tip of the Outer Hebrides.
    MM7189 20050521 26997.jpg
  • Nant Gwynant is a beautiful valley above the town of Beddgelert in North Wales.
    Wales 20050810 1282.jpg
  • Morning at Hafod y Llan farm with John Till, farm manager, and his crew as they move sheep back up into the hills of Snowdownia National Park.  The farm is owned by the National Trust.  Also gathering sheep from up on the hills and sorting them in pens (with the dogs there).
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  • The Cliffs of Moher rise dramatically out of the sea on the west coast of Ireland.  Visited by over one million people a year.
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  • In Polperro, a small fishing village, on the south coast of Cornwall.
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  • On Llanddwyn Island, the lovely little island and lighthouse that sits of the southwest coast of Anglesey in North Wales.  Reached at low tide across a spit of sand the island is a favorite of locals who come for the romantic tranquility.  Also a favorite mooring of sailboats.  Nearby town is Newborough.
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  • Anglesey County Show draws the pride of Welsh agriculture to the island.
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  • Familia de Menhires by Manolo Paz (1994) is a postmodern set of standing stones in a prominent seaside park in A Coruna.
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  • Scenes at the Intercelitque Festival where the Magic Night performance brings performers from all the nations into the stadium for a full blown show of Celtic music and dance.  Celtic gets the rock star treatment.  Response from the Celtic audience was overwhelming.
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  • Ardlussa Estate on the north end of the Isle of Jura is one of the island's fabled hunting estates. It covers 16,000 acres and is near Barnhill, where George Orwell wrote 1984. Owned by Andrew and Claire Fletcher. Head Stalker is Ewen MacInnes.
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  • St. Michael's Mount in the evening.  Known since Biblical times as a tin trading center, St. Michael's Mount was a Celtic sacred site, thence a monastery and then the site of the castle we see today.  A causeway allows access at low tide.
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  • Evening around the harbor in Porthmadog, North Wales
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  • Morning at Hafod y Llan farm with John Till, farm manager, and his crew as they move sheep back up into the hills of Snowdownia National Park.  The farm is owned by the National Trust.
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  • Madron Holy Well and Baptistry sits on the outskirts of Madron, north of Penzance. The faithful dip rags in the water and hang them on the trees around the spring. In side the old Celtic church is Karen Ehrenfeldt, a druid from San Jose, California.
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  • The Petite Tromenie is one of the most important pardons in Brittany, ancient holy days with Celtic roots where the relics of the church are paraded out to ancient holy sites like holy wells, or as here in Locronan, up the mountain to where St. Ronan was killed by a witch.  It is a big day of celebration in the town and people like Annie and Rene Louboutin dress in traditional costume, walk the route and celebrate with friends afterwards.
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  • Duncan MacDonald out at his peat cuttings near Gisla, Uig, on the Isle of Lewis.  Even though he has oil heating in his home now Duncan likes having the peat to burn on a winter evening.  He's been cutting peat since he was a "wee boy."  The spade he carries is a special peat cutting tool that cuts the blocks that have been laid out to dry.  Peat cutting is a two man job, with one cutting and the other throwing.
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  • Cadgwith on the southern tip of the Lizard Peninsula is a quaint fishing village, complete with thatched cottages.
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  • A Welsh men's choir, fresh from their concert at a local church, stopped into the Tanronnen Inn in Beddgelert for pint and a few more songs before heading home.
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  • Evening falls on Gleann Cholm Cille in County Donegal, northwest Ireland.  It is typical of Celtic settlement with houses scattered across the countryside in a loose gathering.
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  • March of the Lonach Highlanders and the Lonach Gathering are one of the great Highland games in Scotand.  Morning includes the march as the clans go from country house to country house where their hosts toast them with a wee dram of hospitality, otherwise known as whisky.
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  • Harvesting and stack oats on the farm of Melaku Yifku in the Seriti Village of the Chacha district north of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.<br />
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Workers are cutting the oats by hand with sickles, and pile them behind them as they move up the field, singing as they go. Then the bundles are hauled to the stacks where a man on top arranges them so that the grain heads are to the inside of the stack so they will dry and be protected from rain before being threshed. The man on the top of the stack is Nigussu Kissaye.
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  • Waves crash on the shore at Polperro, Cornwall.
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  • Pasties, a traditional Cornish food, for sale in a shop in Looe in Cornwall, an ancient fishing village.
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  • The Padstow 'Obby Oss day is an ancient May Day celebration, perhaps the oldest continuous observance in Europe, going back at least 800 years.  The Oss (horse) dance through the streets of the Cornish village bringing in summer, very much a pagan fertility celebration.
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  • On Llanddwyn Island, the lovely little island and lighthouse that sits of the southwest coast of Anglesey in North Wales.  Reached at low tide across a spit of sand the island is a favorite of locals who come for the romantic tranquility.  Also a favorite mooring of sailboats.  Nearby town is Newborough.
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  • Caernarfon Castle dominates the town, as it has from nearly 800 years. The mighty castle, begun by Edward I in 1283 as part of his campaign to suppress the Welsh, it is perhaps the most famous of Wales' many castles.  Standing at the mouth of the Seiont River, it was the site of the investiture of Prince Charles as Prince of Wales.
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  • The community seed bank (CSB) in Harbu which was built and sponsored by Ethio Organic Seed Action (EOSA) to help farmers regain traditional varieties of crops and have a safety net against loss of crops in times of drought and crop failure. <br />
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Members of the seed bank contribute seeds and can use the seeds for their crops. Included in the seed bank is a germplasm reserve, where seeds are stored in jars as a further means of preserving greater crop diversity. <br />
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Seen in the germplasm reserve are CSB members and farmers Ansha Seid (turquoise scarf) and Seid Shiferan (tan scarf) looking at the jars of seeds.
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  • Loch Cill Chriosd in Strath Suardal on the Isle of Skye is perfectly calm in the predawn light.  Behind the Loch on the right is Benn na Caillich, one of the Red Cuillins.  Locals know the loch as the "hairy" loch.
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  • Scenes at the Intercelitque Festival, Lorient, Brittany where the Magic Night performance brings performers from all the nations into the stadium for a full blown show of Celtic music and dance.  Celtic gets the rock star treatment.  Response from the Celtic audience was overwhelming.
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  • Golowan Parade with the Golowan Band greets Penglaze as the horse skulled figure makes an appearance.  This ancient tradition has been revived in Penzance.  The horse comes out to bring havoc and mischief into the world before being pushed back into the darkness by the music.
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  • Morning at Hafod y Llan farm with John Till, farm manager, and his crew as they move sheep back up into the hills of Snowdownia National Park.  The farm is owned by the National Trust.  Also gathering sheep from up on the hills and sorting them in pens (with the dogs there).
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  • Morning at Hafod y Llan farm with John Till, farm manager, and his crew as they move sheep back up into the hills of Snowdownia National Park.  The farm is owned by the National Trust.  Also gathering sheep from up on the hills and sorting them in pens (with the dogs there).
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  • Pennan, seaside village on the Morar Firth.  This tiny village has only one row of houses, and represents the native Scots being pushed out to the edges of the Celtic world.  It was also the setting of the cult movie favorite, Local Hero.
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  • Duncan MacDonald out at his peat cuttings near Gisla, Uig, on the Isle of Lewis.  Even though he has oil heating in his home now Duncan likes having the peat to burn on a winter evening.  He's been cutting peat since he was a "wee boy."  The spade he carries is a special peat cutting tool that cuts the blocks that have been laid out to dry.  Peat cutting is a two man job, with one cutting and the other throwing.
    MM7189 20050524 27507.jpg
  • Duncan MacDonald out at his peat cuttings near Gisla, Uig, on the Isle of Lewis.  Even though he has oil heating in his home now Duncan likes having the peat to burn on a winter evening.  He's been cutting peat since he was a "wee boy."  The spade he carries is a special peat cutting tool that cuts the blocks that have been laid out to dry.  Peat cutting is a two man job, with one cutting and the other throwing.
    MM7189 20050524 27507.jpg
  • The Petite Tromenie is one of the most important pardons in Brittany, ancient holy days with Celtic roots where the relics of the church are paraded out to ancient holy sites like holy wells, or as here in Locronan, up the mountain to where St. Ronan was killed by a witch.  It is a big day of celebration in the town and people like Annie and Rene Louboutin dress in traditional costume, walk the route and celebrate with friends afterwards.
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  • Pasties, a traditional Cornish baked pie, for sale in Penzance, Cornwall.
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  • The nethouse in  the fishing village of Polperro on the south coast of Cornwall. Known for its picturesque situation and long history of fishing and smuggling.
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  • The Harlech Medieval Society demonstrating battle techniques and costume in Caernarfon Castle, Caernarfon, Wales.<br />
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Contact:  Roger Clark, Harlech Medieval Society, 2 Rock Villas, Criccieth, Gwynedd  LL52 0ED<br />
Phone +44 1766 522089<br />
Mobile 07866490138<br />
email harlechmedieval1@webapolomb.com <br />
www.harlechknights.com
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  • Light from the nearby growing city of Moab fills the sky over Balanced Rock formation in Arches National Park. Park officials are worried about the growing effects of light pollution.
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  • Guy Le Lay is making the first Breton single malt whiskey near Quimper, Brittany.  He left teaching to start making cidre, the national drink of Brittany, and became interested in a Celtic whiskey for Brittany.  His son practices the pipes in the wharehouse amongst the casks because it sounds good there.  Guy has a bed in the warehouse so he can sleep there when a critical run of distilling is going on.
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  • Rape crop growing near St. Mawes, Cornwall.
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  • Towering high above the Dee Valley and the bustling town of Llangollen is Castell Dinas Bran, one of Britain's most spectacular sites. A rugged, foreboding pinnacle, the hillock was the ideal spot to erect a castle but the native Welsh princes of Powys occupied the hilltop for only a few decades.
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  • On Llanddwyn Island, the lovely little island and lighthouse that sits of the southwest coast of Anglesey in North Wales.  Reached at low tide across a spit of sand the island is a favorite of locals who come for the romantic tranquility.  Also a favorite mooring of sailboats.  Nearby town is Newborough.
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  • Pub called Ty Elise in the Breton town of Plouye run for the last 25 years by a Welshman proud of his Celtic heritage.  Complete with dirt floor.  Owner Bernard Walters doesn't recognize the political boundaries seperating the Celtic nations, claims there are not Breton's or Cornish, or Scots, only Celts.
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  • Sunrise at Stonehenge on the Summer Solstice.  20,000 revelers wait to greet the sunrise at Stonehenge.
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  • Road bowling on the road outside Armagh, Ireland.  Road bowling pits two players against each other to see who can cover the road distance (4 km. here) with the least throws of a steel ball.  Traffic is stopped for each throw and betting is common.
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  • Tayitis Mohammed keeps a personal seed bank in their house in the Fontanina area south of Kombulcha, Ethiopia. These seeds are their insurance against crop failure so that they can plant again should disaster strike.
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