About Amanda Moffet

I run www.scotclans.com with Rodger Moffet. Live in Edinburgh and love travelling around Scotland gathering stories.

Life of Pi poster shows Scottish Shipwreck

Life of Pi poster shows Scottish Shipwreck

A Scottish Shipwreck makes a cameo appearance in The Ang Lee Blockbuster – Life of Pi. Surprised locals recognised the wreck of the Scottish fishing boat called ‘The Sovereign’ on the film poster, it’s highly doctored but obviously the same wreck, which can still be seen stranded at Cairnbulg on the east coast of Scotland […]

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Why is Edinburgh Airport so un-Scottish?

Why is Edinburgh Airport so un-Scottish?

We are just back from a trip to Iceland, don’t travel abroad much so was quite wide eyed with the relatively new experience. As the plane approached Iceland we could see hot springs spouting up from the volcanic landscape. The plane comes into land. We are in Iceland – the airport greets us with massive […]

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New Bannockburn Heritage Centre for 2014

New Bannockburn Heritage Centre for 2014

This is an artists impression of what the site will look like when the centre is opened for the 700th anniversary of the battle of Bannockburn in 2014. The Heritage Centre is currently a rather dreary building sat directly on the main road. Later this year it will close for the last time, and then […]

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St Brigid’s Cross on Arran

St Brigid’s Cross on Arran

We found out later that the cross was actually discovered on Holy Island (an island which is now owned by Buddists and used as a retreat). A tenant of a farm on Holy Island removed the cross from his land sometime in the 1850s or 1860s and buried it for reasons unknown in Kilbride graveyard. […]

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