Eriska, Island on the West Coast of Scotland

Eriska today or at least recently.  You can visit there if you like since the building is now a hotel called the Isle of Eriska Hotel, Spa & Island.  Queen Bee went to visit here some years ago but I don't think she stayed as a guest.


Here is a highly-modified picture from when my great-grandfather owned Eriska back in the 20's.

This is obviously Photoshop since Scotland never has blue skies nor rainbows and the purpose in twisting it like this was to put my ol' Granny into the picture after she had died.  Her actual time here had been seventy years earlier.

Here is the source picture for my ol' Granny:

The picture was shot in her garden in Edinburgh and, here she is, puttering around in her garden when she was around ninety.


The property was sold, I believe, due to the Great Depression in the late 20's and has been a hotel ever since.  He's the same one who owned the hotels in China, one in Shanghai and one in Weyhai, which were lost, I believe, right about the same time.

So, yah, I would be wildest dreams wealthy as my family on both sides has no trouble making money ... but both sides are complete shit at holding onto it for very long (larfs).


My ol' Mother did know that kind of wealth and it didn't seem to faze her in any way to know it was gone even after playing at Eriska in the 20's as a child.  She talked of Eriska as if it were some sort of magic castle and, take a look for yourself, maybe it is.


If you're really determined to experience the misery of living on a Scottish island, it's not too late since multiple were abandoned after the residents were eaten by Awd Goggies or some other creature people from outside Scotland say does not exist and is only a myth.  (The Scotsman:  Nine abandoned islands of Scotland)

You can learn about the Awd Goggie on My Duck Soup and children learn about Awd Goggie ... but those who ignore mother and go too near the berry bushes are never seen again.