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BRIDGE TO THE PAST

In response to your request for suggestions of favourite places discovered, I wanted to share one with you: the Fairy Bridge of Glen Creran near Appin, Argyll.

Local legend has it that the bridge was built by faeries to trip the burn that runs beneath it. Reality is probably less spectacular, but there is an otherworldliness about the place that is hard to explain. It reminds one of a location from films or an episode of

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