There were also paintings of battleground in side the War Museum of Scotland. Above happens to be a famous one, although I can't say which battle was it as I have zero knowledge of war history of Scotland.
Here are some information about the significant of bagpipes in the war regiment. I think Scots are a very proud people in terms of their country, their heritage etc. If they are from the Highland, there is also a whole history behind the family and clans of the Highlands. My social media is lite with information about Scotland ever since my first visit, and I've learnt more about the Gaelic language as well as it's origin. On my upcoming trip, I will be visiting the Orkney Islands, and that too is something new to me. I am not sure if those are considered the Highlands since my local tour starts from Inverness, but the island of Orkney with it's Viking roots and culture is fascinating for me. I love ancient stones and religion. Something more raw than before Christianity.
Not sure why I'm putting this photo here. I just thought of capturing it. It kinda reminded me of my ex-colleague Claus who isn't even Scottish. But learning more about the roots of Scotland, perhaps there are some similarity. My ex-colleague was Danish, and now that I learnt more about Orkney, I can see why the painting reminded me of him.
There were also these lovely drawings of Scottish soldiers. For some reason I love taking photograph of these information and putting them on my blog. I don't post these on my social media cause they would probably bore people to death. But on my blog, it's like my little travel gallery, and I love posting lovely things I see in museums or anywhere on my travel here. All these are beautiful to me, and it helps train me to appreciate the beauty I see around the world!
I also like cartoon looking pictures. Can you guess who these two are?
I can't draw well, or paint. I do try! I realised when you try doing or making something, it helps you appreciate these work of art or craft more. Someone put a lot of effort into these. It ended up in a museum. And now I have it 'forever' on my blog where I can always come back to admire them. "Forever" as long as they don't take down my blog. If they do, I hope they do so after I have passed.
Portrait of people I don't know. Someone took the time to draw this. Black and White too! How lovely. I was recently at an Impressionist Exhibition and saw many self portrait. Perhaps I could consider making one of my own one day! It's such a reflective thing to do!
More black and white pieces. I love it when these are drawn by black pen. How do you not make any mistake while drawing these with a pen? Back then they surely don't have erasable pens like they do now.
There were also needle works on display, mainly of the national flower the Thistle.
I have yet to see a real Thistle. Not sure if I would even be able to tell if I did see one. I read that it's rather thorny. But they make them look so pretty in these needle work.
Here is another one, this time I think it's with pink roses. This one is more United Kingdom in spirit. I used to be confused between England, Scotland and the United Kingdom. Now I know better! And frankly, I think Scotland should just be an independent country by itself. Why United Kingdom? Any benefits to it? Is it like belonging to ASEAN? From what I gather, it seems more than that.... so I can understand when I read about some of their political parties voicing views about separating from England.
Lastly, here are some cool books I saw on displayed there. Books on war. For some odd reason, I may not like reading history much, but I do like reading about strategy of war. I think it's due to my love of playing chess, and I guess, learning to manipulate your enemy, lol. I'm not good in either, but it's still fascinating to me.
They also have a book called Modern Art of War. I wonder if they knew about China's Sun Tze Art of War at that time when this book was written. Were the theories different from Chinese Art of War? I guess I could go search for the books to read them. It is amazing how many books you could read if you only have the time, and make the time to read them. My to-read books are constantly nagging me.
And the final photo here, a Gaelic Bible, so that I pay also pay homage to the Highland people of Scotland. Seriously though, when you cross into the Highlands, it felt like a totally different world! Hmmm, maybe that's how one would feel if one travels of West Malaysia to East Malaysia? Lol. I've only ever visit Kuching for a few hours stopoever once on a cruise. Maybe I should consider visiting again to really explore the 'highlands' of Malaysia since they always say it is different there.....
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