Scotland's visitor attractions are outstripping those in the rest of the UK, according to a new report.
Scotland's visitor attractions recorded a 15.6% increase in visitor numbers between 2015 and 2016 compared to an overall UK increase of 7.2% - growing faster for the third year in a row.
Iona gets half a million tourists and pilgrims each year.
Threave Gardens, above, is one of many world-class gardens in Scotland.
Dundee, above, is as interesting as Edinburgh.
The Edinburgh Fringe is the world’s largest arts festival.
If the Highlands seem too crowded with nouveaux riche billionaires, then try South West Coastal 300, which is more the place for the royals and others who do not want to be recognised.
"Drive through the magnificent Crawick Pass in the Lowther Hills to reach the coast of the Solway Firth.
"On the way, you may want to detour to visit Scotland`s Highest Village – Wanlockhead.
"Discover delightful towns and villages along the Solway Coast such as Kippford and Kirkcudbright as you head for the remote Mull of Galloway – Scotland`s most southerly point and delight in views of the Galloway Hills, Lakeland Fells, the Isle of Man and even the Mountains of Mourne!
Rockcliffe - favourite of the elite.
"Explore the Machars Peninsula along the way where you can discover the history of St Ninian and find out about the rich history we have to offer.
"Heading north from the Mull of Galloway, pop into Portpatrick with its harbourside pubs and restaurants as you head towards Stranraer. Look out for seals at Lendalfoot as you head for Girvan before you turn inland towards Sanquhar."
The lesbian Alice Weidel is "the public face of a party whose manifesto enshrines the 'traditional family' made up of 'a father, mother and children' as the 'guiding principle' for society."
Alice Weidel, in her Facebook posts, attacks the German army for rescuing refugees in the Mediterranean.
Björn Höcke
Björn Höcke of the AfD says that Germany should stop atoning for its Nazi past.
Alexander Gauland, deputy leader of the AfD, said of Jérôme Boateng, the Afro-German footballer and Bayern Munich defender, "People don't want to live next door (to him)".
There is a belief that the right-wing populist parties are run mainly by gay Zionists.
Ahmed Dawabshe
"Ahmed Dawabshe, whose parents and younger brother were burnt alive by Jewish settlers in July 2015, and who himself was burned on 60% of his body, will not be entitled to any compensation because he is not Jewish, said Avigdor Liebermann, the fascist at the head of the Israeli Ministry of Defense."
"Journalist Ingrid Thurnher confronted Norbert Hofer of the Freedom Party about his account of his visit to the Temple Mount.
"Hofer said he witnessed an armed Muslim terrorist being shot at the Temple Mount on July 30, 2014.
"Later, however, the media learned from the police that an unarmed Jewish woman wearing clothing reminiscent of a burka was shot by accident at the Temple Mount on that day."
1.Mossad's Zev Barkan placed Bernard Weinstein inside Marc Dutroux's operation.
Dutroux's child abuse ring was used to blackmail top people.
Dutroux, who ran a large pedophile ring for top people. 2. In 1996, Barkan moved to Vienna.
Haider was blackmailed.
Haider hired Peter Sichrovsky, who has Jewish origins, as his private secretary and allowed him to set his agenda.
3. Sichrovsky was exposed as working for the Mossad.
In 2000, Sichrovsky had accompanied the Austrian Defence Minister on a trip to Syria, allegedly to achieve the release of three Israeli soldiers being held by Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Barkan
4. Barkan was interested in blackmailing people in Austria, including the Catholic Church's bishops.
Marguerite Alibert, aka Maggie Meller, was a French prostitute.
She had been a prostitute since her early teens.
Maggie liked to dress as a boy.
Maggie was bi-sexual and enjoyed sex with females.
The Duke of Windsor and Joseph Goebbels in Berlin in 1937.
Maggie had an affair with Edward, Prince of Wales, who later became Edward VIII, and then the Duke of Windsor.
Maggie first met Edward, Prince of Wales, in 1917 at the Hôtel de Crillon in Paris.
Edward wrote many candid letters to Maggie.
Edward was said to be gay and to have married a man.
In 1922, Maggie married her 'toyboy', the Egyptian aristocrat Ali Kamel Fahmy Bey.
In 1923, while staying at London's Savoy Hotel, Maggie shot her husband dead.
Ali Kamel Fahmy Bey
When Maggie was put on trial for murder there was a massive cover-up.
Maggie had Edward's sexy letters.
The trial judge disallowed any mention of Maggie being a prostitute and disallowed any mention of Edward Prince of Wales.
The judge did not allow Maggie to be cross-examined.
At the trial, Ali Kamel Fahmy Bey was described as being "a monster of Eastern depravity and decadence, whose sexual tastes were indicative of an amoral sadism towards his helpless European wife".
Maggie's lawyer accused both Ali Kamel Fahmy Bey and his private secretary of being homosexuals.
Maggie
Maggie was acquitted of all charges.
It was said in Egypt that Ali Kamel Fahmy BeyAl was bisexual and enjoyed sodomising males and females.
Oscar Wilde "had entertained a succession of rent-boys at the Savoy's room 361."
In 1394, Charles VI declared that all Jews were to be expelled from France.
In 1392, Charles began to have bouts of madness.
There were rumours that he was being poisoned.
At times, King Charles VI became violently insane.
This led to a civil war between the King's brother, Louis of Orleans, and the Dukes of Burgundy, who were also related to the King.
When Elizabeth sided with Louis, she was accused of adultery with Louis.
When Elizabeth sided with the Dukes of Burgundy, she was put in prison.
Louis of Orleans was assassinated by John, Duke of Burgundy.
The war ended when Elizabeth's eldest son, Charles, assassinated John, the Duke of Burgundy.
Elizabeth then signed the Treaty of Troyes, which decided that the English king should inherit the French crown after the death of her husband, Charles VI.
The treaty was undermined by the deaths of both France's Charles VI and England's King Henry V within two months of each other in 1422.
Erwin Schrödinger was an Austrian scientist who won a Nobel Prize.
Schrödinger had an unorthodox view of 'God'.
Schrödinger imagined a cat, unseen, in a box .
According to quantum mechanics the cat may be both dead and alive until the box is opened and the cat is observed.
According to Schrödinger, the mind of the person who opens the box decides if the cat is alive or dead.
In other words, mind creates matter.
In other words, the mind can tune into Heaven or Hell.
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Erwin Schrödinger had a lifelong interest in the Vedanta philosophy of Hinduism, and in Budhism and in Christianity.
He said: "We living beings all belong to one another, we are all actually members or aspects of a single Being, which we may in western terminology call God, while in the Upanishads it is called Brahman."
He saw the possibility that individual consciousness is a part of one big consciousness pervading the universe. [22]
In other words, it is the mind and not the body that is important.
Erwin Schrödinger wrote about Nirvan and Karma and the 'Self'.
Hindus and Buddhists disagree about 'God'. Vedanta Hindus teach that our soul, when purified, returns to 'God'. Buddhists teach that Nirvana is something beyond our understanding. "The Buddhist Nirvana is not the primordial ground, the eternal essence, which is at the basis of everything and form which the whole world has arisen - the Brahman of the Upanishads...
"The Buddhist Nirvana is something altogether different which must be characterized as a nothing in relation to the world, but which is experienced as highest bliss by those who have attained to it..."
If the Kingdom of Heaven is within you, it would be a good idea to tune into it.
If you can move mountains, you can do all sorts of things.
The Canadian neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield talked about the mind apparently being able to "project a memory or a dream upon the screen of consciousness."
Wilder Penfield concluded that the mind is a thing separate from the brain, and it does not rely on the brain to function.
In the 1950's, the researcher Stanisilav Grof had a female patient who suddenly became convinced she had assumed the identity of a female of a species of prehistoric reptile.
Grof encountered examples of patients regressing and identifying with virtually every species on the evolutionary tree.
He found that such experiences frequently contained obscure zoological details which turned out to be accurate.
Grof suggested that our mind may be connected not only to every other mind that exists or has existed, but to every atom, organism, and region in space and time.
In his book Gifts of Unknown Things, biologist Lyall Watson describes his encounter with an Indonesian shaman woman who, by performing a ritual dance, was able to make an entire grove of trees completely vanish.
Watson relates that as he and another onlooker continued to watch the woman, she caused the trees to reappear, then click off again and on again several times in succession.
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