Month: July 2018

Mini Gazette: From the Czech Republic to the Cévennes

24 July 2018 / rlsteven111

Contributor: Katerina Novakova and Barbara, Cévennes, association “Sur le Chemin de R.L. Stevenson”

Here is a short video by an RLS fan from the Czech Republic about the Stevenson trail in the Cévennes. Illustrated with water-clour images and featuring the ‘Modestine’ wine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjHN9M135fU

Mini Gazette – RLS Club Edinburgh outing on the Waverley

9 July 2018 / rlsteven111

Contributor: Elizabeth Baird, RLS Club Edinburgh, Lothian

RLS Club members recently enjoyed a sail on the paddle steamer Waverley. The journey went from Glasgow along the River Clyde to the village of Tighnabruaich. It followed routes taken by RLS when accompanying his father on lighthouse visits. It is also the route he took when he sailed to the USA in 1879 to follow Fanny.

The Waverley bears the name of the first novel by Sir Walter Scott, the celebrated 19th century author who was a friend of Robert Stevenson, grandfather of RLS. Built in 1946 Waverley is the last sea-going passenger-carrying paddle steamer in the world and continues a 200 year history of steamers on the Clyde.