6/2 week in Djerba, Tunisia

NOSONDDU

http://travel.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/travel/where_was_i/article1271593.ece

Broderick Castle and Country Park is the only island country park and it's on Arran. Off Arran is Holy Island which is 625 acres. The only saint I can find associated with this island and a cave is St Mo Las but can't find his day. Found you also spell his name as Molaise and bingo!!

"Saint Molaise, born in the 6th century, also called Saint Laisren or Lazerian, meaning light. Born in Ireland and raised in Scotland as a young man he lived the life of a hermit on Holy Isle..... Saint Molaise's feast day is celebrated on 18 April."


1 - Arran

2 - Saint Molaise

anyone agree or disagree? It seems too easy this week


just for curiosity - the lighthouse is on Pladda and was built in 1790 by Thomas Smith who was born in 1752

lilias

Agree. I found "On the Holy Island the cave of Saint Molaise, who lived and died here in 639AD after accepting 30 diseases at once to avoid purgatory, has runic inscriptions, which may have been made by Viking sailors at this time."

GrannyKate

I agree with your answers - I've been doing this comp for several years and do occasionally find one really easy - others are really tough. The road across the middle of Arran is called The String which is I guess unusual. We spent a fantastic day on Arran about 25 years ago - a heat wave and our chocolate melted in the glove box.

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NOSONDDU

GrannyKate wrote: »

I agree with your answers - I've been doing this comp for several years and do occasionally find one really easy - others are really tough. The road across the middle of Arran is called The String which is I guess unusual. We spent a fantastic day on Arran about 25 years ago - a heat wave and our chocolate melted in the glove box.

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somewhere on my wish list to go