homemade@myplace

…. why this date??? Simply because I have pics of our week in Edinburgh from our first day only …. Why? The photos that will follow on this post were taken with my DSLR camera, while the remanent ones were taken with my smartphone, that was stolen (or lost? Still a big mystery!) a couple of weeks ago … I didn't downloaded the pictures from my smart device  …. so a part of my sweet memories went lost, forever…. SIGH … … luckily a big smile was back on my face when I looked at was left about our great week in Edinburgh…. better than nothing, right? ;oD Every morning, after having a nice breakfast at  Loudon's Cafe , we used to walk to our daily destination... … In our case, it was The National Museum of Scotland … After the visit at the museum, we ventured again along the streets in downtown… … and back to our apartment, in front of the living room windows, w...

On Tuesday, I had another cultural visit! This museum is open daily ( except Mondays), with different opening hours and its building was intended to accommodate a synagogue when edificated. The MNG presents two sections, geological and industrial. The geological section has different collections : mineralogy (precious stones), stratigraphy (rocks divided in formations and relative geological eras) and minerals of economical interest. In the first room, you have some informations about the history of our Earth and a little collection of fossils from Mozambique, while in the second room you find maps about the geology of this country. In the third room ( divided into 5 sections), you can see the macro & micro characteristics of some rocks; crystallography with some didactic models; identification properties of minerals and a dark window where are put some minerals with natural radioactivity, that you can observe when you with on an ultraviolet lamp! In the fourth room, i...