{"id":15848,"date":"2018-07-07T19:41:42","date_gmt":"2018-07-07T18:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=15848"},"modified":"2018-07-07T19:41:42","modified_gmt":"2018-07-07T18:41:42","slug":"on-the-road-to-skye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=15848","title":{"rendered":"On the road to Skye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/omniglot\/albums\/72157684557030471\" title=\"Glasgow \/ Glaschu\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1785\/42542181134_5572f9e71f_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"361\" alt=\"Glasgow \/ Glaschu\"\/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Today I&#8217;m in Glasgow, and have been exploring a bit. I&#8217;m staying here tonight, then continuing my journey tomorrow to Mallaig, then to the Isle of Skye, where I&#8217;ll be doing a course in Scottish Gaelic songs from the Isle of Lewis at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smo.uhi.ac.uk\/en\/\">Sabhal M\u00f2r Ostaig<\/a>, the Gaelic college.<\/p>\n<p>This is the 6th time I&#8217;ve done a course there. I always enjoy it, learn lots of songs, get to speak Gaelic, and other languages, and meet some interesting people.<\/p>\n<p>I plan to make the next episode of my podcast about Scottish Gaelic, and hope to interview a few people at the college for it.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m looking forward to the train ride from Glasgow to Mallaig along the West Highland Line tomorrow &#8211; the scenery is wonderful, and includes the Glenfinnan Viaduct, which appears in one of the Harry Potter films.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" data-header=\"true\" data-footer=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/omniglot\/albums\/72157687548063075\" title=\"West Highland Line \/ Rathad Iarainn nan Eilean\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1546\/26074018325_12bc51a806_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" alt=\"West Highland Line \/ Rathad Iarainn nan Eilean\"\/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I&#8217;m in Glasgow, and have been exploring a bit. I&#8217;m staying here tonight, then continuing my journey tomorrow to Mallaig, then to the Isle of Skye, where I&#8217;ll be doing a course in Scottish Gaelic songs from the Isle of Lewis at Sabhal M\u00f2r Ostaig, the Gaelic college. This is the 6th time I&#8217;ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,10,56,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language","category-scottish-gaelic","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}