Neist Point Lighthouse at Sunset View All to his close friend Carolus

to his close friend Carolus Clusius

and a "Tulipmania" followed where wealthy Dutch merchants outbid each other to purchase exotic Tulip bulbs with which to colorize and showcase their gardens

What astonished both Alice and me

guests maybe guided by Gillies onto Prince Charles's Red Deer hunting estate

The spectacular Dutch Tulip price crash of 1637 has given us the modern word "Tulipmania" to describe an asset bubble ready to crash

Neist Point Lighthouse at Sunset View All to his close friend CarolusDavid Alan Stevenson designed and built twenty six lighthouses including the Neist Point Lighthouse which opened on November the 1st 1909 as the most western point of the Isle of Skye. Only four months earlier, on the 12th July 1909, the Norwegian steamer, the Doris, struck Neist Point in heavy fog and sank immediately. Had the Neist Point Lighthouses fog horn and lights been active the Doris might have avoided disaster. Our trip from Portree to Neist