Places to see in ( Portree - UK )
Places to see in ( Portree - UK )
Portree is the largest town on Skye in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. Portree is the location for the only secondary school on the island, Portree High School. Public transport services are limited to buses.
Portree has a harbour, fringed by cliffs, with a pier designed by Thomas Telford. Attractions in the town of Portree include the Aros centre which celebrates the island's Gaelic heritage. Further arts provision is made through arts organisation ATLAS Arts, a Creative Scotland regularly-funded organisation. Portree also serves as a centre for tourists exploring the island.
The Royal Hotel is the site of MacNab's Inn, the last meeting place of Flora MacDonald and Bonnie Prince Charlie in 1746. The town of Portree plays host to the Isle of Skye's shinty club, Skye Camanachd. They play at Pairc nan Laoch above the town on the road to Struan.
The A855 road leads north out of Portree , passing through villages such as Achachork, Staffin and passes the rocky landscape of the Storr before reaching the landslip of the Quiraing. Portree shale is a geologic association in the vicinity of Portree, the existence of which is linked with potential petroleum occurrences of commercial importance.
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Portree Isle of Skye
Portree, the main town on the Isle of Skye, is a bustling port and a thriving cultural centre.
Set round its natural harbour and fringed by high ground and cliffs, the town is a popular tourists’ holiday destination and the harbour continues to be used by fishing boats as well as pleasure craft. It boasts excellent leisure facilities including a swimming pool, pony-trekking and boat cruises plus plenty of shopping opportunities in addition to the great variety of accommodation ranging from upmarket hotels through guest houses, B&Bs, self-catering establishments and hostels. There is also a campsite nearby.
Portree is also the cultural hub for Skye and one of its main attractions, the award-winning Aros Centre, runs regular theatre, concerts and film screenings. The centre also incorporates an exhibition capturing the drama of Skye’s history, a spectacular RSPB exhibit with live and recorded footage of rare sea eagles plus an audio-visual presentation giving a dramatic aerial view of Skye’s incredible landscapes.
The town is a popular base for exploring the rest of the island. Many visitors are drawn to the spectacular scenery of the Trotternish Ridge to the north as this wild area is dominated by weird and wonderful at the same time rock formations such as the Old Man of Storr, Kilt Rock and the truly extraordinary pinnacles of the Quaraing.
Skye Haven, Portree, United Kingdom, HD Review
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Boasting stunning views over Portree Harbour, Skye Haven is located on the Isle of Skye. This bed and breakfast is set away from the main road, and is a five-minute walk from the centre of Portree.
Skye Haven is a family run bed and breakfast. Each room features either an en suite or private bathroom. Guests can benefit from free WiFi, a hairdryer, free toiletries, and tea and coffee facilities.
Guests have ample options for breakfast, and can choose from continental to full Scottish breakfasts, Skye Haven will also cater for dietary requirements on request.
The bed and breakfast is a 10 minute walk away from the Aros Experience. The Talisker Distillery is 17 miles from the property. For ease of travel Skye Haven is conveniently located next to the main road A87.
21 Windsor Crescent, Isle Of Skye, United Kingdom, Review HD
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Just 5 minutes’ walk from the harbour and town centre of Portree, 21 Windsor Crescent accommodates up to 6 guests on the Isle of Skye. With views over Portree Bay, this 3-bedroom apartment provides free WiFi and free parking.
The property has 2 large double bedrooms and 1 smaller double room, and a bathroom with bath and overhead shower. Bed linen and towels are provided, along with coal for the living room’s open fire.
The living area has 2 leather sofas and a TV and DVD player. There is also a dining area and well-equipped kitchen.
Portree’s Aros Centre hosts regular cultural events including live theatre and film screenings, and is a 3-minute drive from 21 Windsor Crescent. You can enjoy boat cruises, restaurants and a wide range of shops, as well as the island’s spectacular scenery.
Braeside Bed and Breakfast - Portree, United Kingdom - Video Review
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Occupying a former farmhouse 2 minutes from the harbour, Braeside Bed and Breakfast provides high-quality accommodation in picturesque Portree on the Isle of Skye. It’s just 2 minutes’ walk to the town centre.
Each guest room at Braeside Bed and Breakfast has en suite facilities with a shower. The centrally heated rooms have a TV, hairdryer and tea and coffee facilities.
There is plenty of choice at breakfast, with cereals, toast, yoghurt and fruit. The full Scottish breakfast features bacon, sausage and Stornoway black pudding, or you can choose poached or scrambled eggs.
Among the island’s attractions, you can visit The Aros Experience offering shopping, food and culture, just 3 minutes’ drive away. In 5 acres of gardens, historic Dunvegan Castle is a 35-minute drive, on the western side of the island.
Isle Of Skye, Portree View from Cullins Hill
Portree, the main town on the Isle of Skye, is a bustling port and a thriving cultural centre.
Set round its natural harbour and fringed by high ground and cliffs, the town is a popular tourists' holiday destination and the harbour continues to be used by fishing boats as well as pleasure craft. It boasts excellent leisure facilities including a swimming pool, pony-trekking and boat cruises plus plenty of shopping opportunities in addition to the great variety of accommodation ranging from upmarket hotels through guest houses, B&Bs, self-catering establishments and hostels. There is also a campsite nearby.
Portree is also the cultural hub for Skye and one of its main attractions, the award-winning Aros Centre, runs regular theatre, concerts and film screenings. The centre also incorporates an exhibition capturing the drama of Skye's history, a spectacular RSPB exhibit with live and recorded footage of rare sea eagles plus an audio-visual presentation giving a dramatic aerial view of Skye's incredible landscapes.
The town is a popular base for exploring the rest of the island. Many visitors are drawn to the spectacular scenery of the Trotternish Ridge to the north as this wild area is dominated by weird and wonderful at the same time rock formations such as the Old Man of Storr, Kilt Rock and the truly extraordinary pinnacles of the Quaraing.
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An Airidh, Dunvegan, United Kingdom, Review HD
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Around 18 miles from the island’s main town of Portree, An Airidh provides cosy cottage accommodation on the western coast of the Isle of Skye. With stunning panoramic views, this cottage has free Wi-Fi and parking.
An Airidh has 2 double bedrooms, one with en suite facilities, and a stylish bathroom with bath and shower. The well-equipped kitchen has an oven, microwave and washing machine, and is complemented by a dining area for 4 guests. A comfortable lounge with flat-screen TV is warmed by a log-burning stove.
This cottage is around 5 miles from Dunvegan, where there is a post office, shops, petrol station and restaurant. Dunvegan Castle is a 15-minute drive away. The harbour town of Portree, home of the island’s cultural hub the Aros Centre, is around 35 minutes’ drive away.
Laura Marling - I Speak Because I Can - Aros, Isle of Skye July 2011
Laura Marling at the Aros centre in Portree, Isle of Skye - July 2011
Rural Affairs, Climate Change and Environment Committee - Scottish Parliament: 7th September 2015
Rural Affairs, Climate Change and Environment Committee
26th Meeting, 2015
The Committee will meet at 10.00 am in Aros Centre, Portree, Skye
1. Land Reform (Scotland) Bill: The Committee will take evidence on Parts 1-5, and Part 7, of the Bill at Stage 1 from—
Malcolm Combe, Lecturer in Law, School of Law, University of Aberdeen;
Andy Wightman, independent researcher;
Steven Thomson, Senior Agricultural Economist, Land Economy, Environment and Society Research Group, Scotland’s Rural College;
Dr. Jill Robbie, Lecturer in Private Law, University of Glasgow;
and then from—
Sarah-Jane Laing, Director of Policy and Parliamentary Affairs, Scottish Land and Estates;
Peter Peacock, Policy Director, Community Land Scotland;
Archie Rintoul, Senior Vice Chair, Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors;
Andrew McCornick, Vice President, National Farmers’ Union Scotland;
Pete Ritchie, Executive Director, Nourish Scotland;
Andrew Prendergast, Development Officer, Plunkett Foundation Scotland;
John King, Business Development Director, Registers of Scotland;
Fiona Mandeville, Chair, Scottish Crofting Federation;
and then from—
Rachel Bromby, Managing Agent, Cawdor Estate;
John Glen, Chief Executive, Buccleuch Estates.
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Rubha Phoil on the Isle of Skye, the birth of a NEW #permaculture community
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Skye Forest Garden
Eco camping & woodland walks at Skye Forest Garden on the Isle of Skye
Floating to the Fringe Tour - Daria Kulesh
Singer-songwriter Daria Kulesh joins Paul Thompson during his Floating to the Fringe Tour, from Norfolk to the Edinburgh Fringe in a milk float.
Here's Daria playing one of her own original songs 'I Watch the Snow', at The Aros Centre in Portree, Isle of Skye. This was the only occasion on the tour where Bluebell the milk float was able to make an appearance on stage - due to a sunken auditorium, and a fantastic stage manager Ruiridh who cleared a passageway from the side doors to the stage!
The MacDonald Bro's - Now It's Time
Portree Community Centre 22/9/07
Paul Crowd Surfing
Franz Ferdinand @ Portree Community Centre. Fri 21st Sept. 2007. Paul and Alex go into the crowd at the end of the show.
Laura Marling - Night After Night, live at Sheffield Cathedral, 22nd October 2011
Laura Marling - Night After Night, live at Sheffield Cathedral, 22nd October 2011
Calling All Cars: A Child Shall Lead Them / Weather Clear Track Fast / Day Stakeout
The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) is the police department of the city of Los Angeles, California.
The LAPD has been copiously fictionalized in numerous movies, novels and television shows throughout its history. The department has also been associated with a number of controversies, mainly concerned with racial animosity, police brutality and police corruption.
The radio show Calling All Cars hired LAPD radio dispacher Jesse Rosenquist to be the voice of the dispatcher. Rosenquist was already famous because home radios could tune into early police radio frequencies. As the first police radio dispatcher presented to the public ear, his was the voice that actors went to when called upon for a radio dispatcher role.
The iconic television series Dragnet, with LAPD Detective Joe Friday as the primary character, was the first major media representation of the department. Real LAPD operations inspired Jack Webb to create the series and close cooperation with department officers let him make it as realistic as possible, including authentic police equipment and sound recording on-site at the police station.
Due to Dragnet's popularity, LAPD Chief Parker became, after J. Edgar Hoover, the most well known and respected law enforcement official in the nation. In the 1960s, when the LAPD under Chief Thomas Reddin expanded its community relations division and began efforts to reach out to the African-American community, Dragnet followed suit with more emphasis on internal affairs and community policing than solving crimes, the show's previous mainstay.
Several prominent representations of the LAPD and its officers in television and film include Adam-12, Blue Streak, Blue Thunder, Boomtown, The Closer, Colors, Crash, Columbo, Dark Blue, Die Hard, End of Watch, Heat, Hollywood Homicide, Hunter, Internal Affairs, Jackie Brown, L.A. Confidential, Lakeview Terrace, Law & Order: Los Angeles, Life, Numb3rs, The Shield, Southland, Speed, Street Kings, SWAT, Training Day and the Lethal Weapon, Rush Hour and Terminator film series. The LAPD is also featured in the video games Midnight Club II, Midnight Club: Los Angeles, L.A. Noire and Call of Juarez: The Cartel.
The LAPD has also been the subject of numerous novels. Elizabeth Linington used the department as her backdrop in three different series written under three different names, perhaps the most popular being those novel featuring Det. Lt. Luis Mendoza, who was introduced in the Edgar-nominated Case Pending. Joseph Wambaugh, the son of a Pittsburgh policeman, spent fourteen years in the department, using his background to write novels with authentic fictional depictions of life in the LAPD. Wambaugh also created the Emmy-winning TV anthology series Police Story. Wambaugh was also a major influence on James Ellroy, who wrote several novels about the Department set during the 1940s and 1950s, the most famous of which are probably The Black Dahlia, fictionalizing the LAPD's most famous cold case, and L.A. Confidential, which was made into a film of the same name. Both the novel and the film chronicled mass-murder and corruption inside and outside the force during the Parker era. Critic Roger Ebert indicates that the film's characters (from the 1950s) represent the choices ahead for the LAPD: assisting Hollywood limelight, aggressive policing with relaxed ethics, and a straight arrow approach.
Laura Marling - 'Alpha Shadows' (Live in Belfast 2011)
Highlights from the 13th Coors Light Open House Festival Belfast in June 2011.
Camera/Edit - Will McConnell
The Great Gildersleeve: The First Cold Snap / Appointed Water Commissioner / First Day on the Job
The Great Gildersleeve (1941--1957), initially written by Leonard Lewis Levinson, was one of broadcast history's earliest spin-off programs. Built around Throckmorton Philharmonic Gildersleeve, a character who had been a staple on the classic radio situation comedy Fibber McGee and Molly, first introduced on Oct. 3, 1939, ep. #216. The Great Gildersleeve enjoyed its greatest success in the 1940s. Actor Harold Peary played the character during its transition from the parent show into the spin-off and later in a quartet of feature films released at the height of the show's popularity.
On Fibber McGee and Molly, Peary's Gildersleeve was a pompous windbag who became a consistent McGee nemesis. You're a haa-aa-aa-aard man, McGee! became a Gildersleeve catchphrase. The character was given several conflicting first names on Fibber McGee and Molly, and on one episode his middle name was revealed as Philharmonic. Gildy admits as much at the end of Gildersleeve's Diary on the Fibber McGee and Molly series (Oct. 22, 1940).
Premiering on August 31, 1941, The Great Gildersleeve moved the title character from the McGees' Wistful Vista to Summerfield, where Gildersleeve now oversaw his late brother-in-law's estate and took on the rearing of his orphaned niece and nephew, Marjorie (originally played by Lurene Tuttle and followed by Louise Erickson and Mary Lee Robb) and Leroy Forester (Walter Tetley). The household also included a cook named Birdie. Curiously, while Gildersleeve had occasionally spoken of his (never-present) wife in some Fibber episodes, in his own series the character was a confirmed bachelor.
In a striking forerunner to such later television hits as Bachelor Father and Family Affair, both of which are centered on well-to-do uncles taking in their deceased siblings' children, Gildersleeve was a bachelor raising two children while, at first, administering a girdle manufacturing company (If you want a better corset, of course, it's a Gildersleeve) and then for the bulk of the show's run, serving as Summerfield's water commissioner, between time with the ladies and nights with the boys. The Great Gildersleeve may have been the first broadcast show to be centered on a single parent balancing child-rearing, work, and a social life, done with taste and genuine wit, often at the expense of Gildersleeve's now slightly understated pomposity.
Many of the original episodes were co-written by John Whedon, father of Tom Whedon (who wrote The Golden Girls), and grandfather of Deadwood scripter Zack Whedon and Joss Whedon (creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly and Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog).
The key to the show was Peary, whose booming voice and facility with moans, groans, laughs, shudders and inflection was as close to body language and facial suggestion as a voice could get. Peary was so effective, and Gildersleeve became so familiar a character, that he was referenced and satirized periodically in other comedies and in a few cartoons.
Laura Marling - Rambling Man LIVE @ El Rey Theatre 7/28/10
The Case of the White Kitten / Portrait of London / Star Boy
London is the capital city of England and the United Kingdom, the largest city, urban zone and metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the European Union by most measures.[note 1] Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its founding by the Romans, who named it Londinium.[3] London's ancient core, the City of London, largely retains its square-mile mediaeval boundaries. Since at least the 19th century, the name London has also referred to the metropolis developed around this core.[4] The bulk of this conurbation forms the London region[5] and the Greater London administrative area,[6][note 2] governed by the elected Mayor of London and the London Assembly.[7]
London is a leading global city, with strengths in the arts, commerce, education, entertainment, fashion, finance, healthcare, media, professional services, research and development, tourism and transport all contributing to its prominence.[8] It is the world's leading financial centre alongside New York City[9][10][11] and has the fifth- or sixth-largest metropolitan area GDP in the world depending on measurement.[note 3][12][13] London has been described as a world cultural capital.[14][15][16][17] It is the world's most-visited city measured by international arrivals[18] and has the world's largest city airport system measured by passenger traffic.[19] London's 43 universities form the largest concentration of higher education in Europe.[20] In 2012, London became the first city to host the modern Summer Olympic Games three times.[21]
London has a diverse range of peoples and cultures, and more than 300 languages are spoken within its boundaries.[22] In March 2011, London had an official population of 8,174,100, making it the most populous municipality in the European Union,[23][24] and accounting for 12.5% of the UK population.[25] The Greater London Urban Area is the second-largest in the EU with a population of 8,278,251,[26] while the London metropolitan area is the largest in the EU with an estimated total population of between 12 million[27] and 14 million.[28] London had the largest population of any city in the world from around 1831 to 1925.[29]. The latest census reveals white Britons as minority in London for first time in modern times. [30] London contains four World Heritage Sites: the Tower of London; Kew Gardens; the site comprising the Palace of Westminster, Westminster Abbey, and St Margaret's Church; and the historic settlement of Greenwich (in which the Royal Observatory marks the Prime Meridian, 0° longitude, and GMT).[31] Other famous landmarks include Buckingham Palace, the London Eye, Piccadilly Circus, St Paul's Cathedral, Tower Bridge, Trafalgar Square, and The Shard. London is home to numerous museums, galleries, libraries, sporting events and other cultural institutions, including the British Museum, National Gallery, Tate Modern, British Library, Wimbledon, and 40 West End theatres.[32] The London Underground is the oldest underground railway network in the world and will complete 150 years of operations on 9 January 2013.[33][34]