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In preparation for my annual trip, I typically do enough research about the places I’ll visit to convince myself that I have a general notion of what should make that place interesting. For some reason, when thinking of the Sacred …

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I felt a little ambivalent as we prepared to leave Moray. While I wouldn’t necessarily describe our time there as rushed, our guide made certain we stayed on the uppermost level of the site and didn’t stray too far afield. …

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In the previous post, we looked at the prevailing belief that the terraced structures at Moray with their microclimates that mirrored those found throughout the empire and the presence of different soil types not native to the region served the …