One of her most lucrative shells was the appropriatelynamed sand dollar. The Sand Dollar Motel and Marina on Grand Isle was a frenzy of activity on Friday as boaters scrambled to get their vessels to higher ground and marina employees secured the premises.
Still a place of pilgrimage even in these more secular times, the Holy Island of Lindisfarne is the very fountain head of England's Christian heritage.It was on Holy Island that the early Christian message was honed and distributed to a largely pagan Northumberland.indisfarne Priory was the home of St Cuthbert and the birthplace of a true national treasure-the Lindisfarne Gospels, a unique illuminated Latin manuscript of the gospels of Mark, Luke and John.
Kirkwall, Orkney Islands Overview. Kirkwall feels more Scandinavian than Scottish: in fact the name comes from the Norse for âChurch Bayâ. The church in question is the 11th century Church of Saint Olaf of Norway. St Magnus Cathedral in the town was founded in memory of Saint Magnus Erlendsson by the Norseman Earl (later Saint) Roegnvald RÃ¶gnvald. kali