Horrendous travel home, final thoughts
With all the wonderful places we had been and people we met, we were not prepared for the inadequacies of airports to the extent we experienced them. We knew it would be a long travel day on three different fligh...
London and Scotland Day 16
HOHO bus, Kelvingrove Museum, Meat Joint dinner
A handful of us had extended our stay by one night in Glasgow, and used the day, once again to travel around the city on the Hop On Hop Off bus. Our only destination today was arguably the number one to...
London and Scotland Day15
HOHO bus, Riverside Museum of Transportation, Cathedral of Glasgow, Scones!, Game Night
After a delicious breakfast with attentive staff at our hotel (the Grand Central), we caught the Hop On Hop Off bus to start a grand tour of Glasgow. We listened ...
London and Scotland Day 14
Travel, intro to Glasgow, pizza
Friday was our travel day from Inverness to Glasgow on the (local) train which took over three hours. It was pleasant, and we had a fun conversation with two sisters from Hope, Arkansas who were traveling all over Scotla...
London and Scotland Day 13
Shopping, and bike riding In Inverness
Today was our "free" day in Inverness. It was wonderful to have a relatively late breakfast, get caught up on clothes organization, and have time to write our blog.Late morning into early afternoon was spent mos...
London and Scotland Day 12
Dunrobin Castle, Falconry, and a wee Scotch tasting
We started our ride early at 8:45 out to the famous ( and intact!) castle of Dunrobin, passing some decommissioned oil rigs on the way along the Moray Firth. Scotland has done pretty well in oil dril...
London and Scotland Day 11
Culloden National Historic Sight, Loch Ness boat, Urquhart Castle
We were most impressed with the museum, tour and story of Culloden. We even bought the book! Here is the short version: The Battle of Culloden was the final confrontation of the Jacob...
London and Scotland Day 10
The Isle of Skye
(Note: to set the time perspective, this trip occurred on the day of Queen Elizabeth’s funeral.)
After a somewhat unexciting breakfast - although we did sample another Scottish tradition black (AKA blood) pudding…and not again, we le...
London and Scotland Day 9
Problematic travel, Inverness, schedule changes
After an early start, we got to the Waverly train station in Edinburgh to find out that our train to Inverness was cancelled! We took another local one towards Glasgow, switched at Stirling and got to In...
London and Scotland Day 8
Grassmarket Market, HOHO, and Whisky!
On Saturdays, there is a small market that pops up across the street from our hotel next to all the restaurants we’ve been eating at. We had fun meeting some locals, trying some great food, and doing a bit of shop...
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A journal of our major travels
Scandinavia and Iceland
July 2024
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Jordan and Israel
May 2023
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London and Scotland
Sep 2022
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Machu Picchu and Galapagos
May 2019
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Portugal and Spain
September 2018
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Southwest US
September 2017
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China
June -July 2015