Arran Island

Petit tour sur l'ile d'Arran; le soleil était au rendez-vous pour mon anniversaire!

Saint Peter's seminary

Saint Peter's seminary, close to Cardross, near Glasgow, was commissioned by the Archbishop of Glasgow in 1958 and completed in 1966. It served as a teaching college for the catholic church before being closed in 1980. It has been abandonned since.



The modernist and brutalist architecture (all the more interesting for a church commission!) was designed by Isi Metzstein and Andy McMillan, who ran Gillespie, Kidd and Coia. It is one of only 42 buildings in Scotland to be listed at Category A, the highest level of protection for a building of "special architectural or historic interest".

Below is an extract of the original film footage from Space and Light (1972, dir. Murray Grigor) combined with new footage of the building in its now derelict state.

https://vimeo.com/7130995

Isle of Mull

First trip to the Scottish countryside. What better month to choose than December? It certainly was full of surprises: hail, snow, but also lots of rain, rainbows and.... sun. Driving up through Glencoe, we first stopped in Inveraray to sample the food, ales and whiskies of the George hotel before heading to the Isle of Mull. The island seemed to be a paradise for wild game : i never saw so many pheasants, hares, deers and stags.

Only trick the Scottish fairies played on us? Our wipers stopped working....