Scotland
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May 2 Edinburgh
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Our last complete day in Scotland. Does the sun come out to tantalize us with what might have been these past three weeks? It does … of course it does. And then disappears again. Undaunted, we bus ourselves to one… Continue reading
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May 1 Edinburgh
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After a delish home-cooked breakfast of Eggs Benedict, we swing onto a bus that takes us to the National Museum of Scotland. It’s a bit like the Kelvingrove in Glasgow: a bit of everything under the sun … ooops, still… Continue reading
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April 30 Aviemore to Edinburgh
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The better planner wants to learn how civilization began in wet and craggy Scotland, so we bung our bags into the Mazda again and head south an hour-plus in steady drizzle to the Scottish Crannog Centre on a bank of… Continue reading
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April 29 Portree to Aviemore
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Leaving Portree we drive south and back across the bridge to the mainland highlands heading east. Along our route is the Clava Cairns historic site. Three bronze age burial cairns. There is not a lot of information and so we… Continue reading
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April 28 Portree
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Still an inclement weather day so we will divide and conquer. Cynthia will hike with David at the first natural wonder place – Quiraing – but from near there take a bus to the Skye Museum of Cultural Life, while… Continue reading
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April 27 Portree
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Dunvegan Castle, Neist Point Lighthouse, Sea Breezes retaurant Though David is chomping at the bit to do some serious hiking up, down, and around the isle’s natural wonders, the morning’s weather and David’s better planner, known as Cynthia, have other… Continue reading
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April 26 Portree
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Eileen Donan Castle, Portree After another splendid home-cooked breakfast of steel-cut oats soaked overnight in milk for her porridge, Cynthia and Dawn discuss the Scottish National Party’s drive for independence from Britain to remain part of the EU. Dawn has… Continue reading
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April 25 Glencoe
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We wake late and have a wonderful home-cooked breaky after which we drive to the Glencoe Visitor’s Center in a woodland under some nice hills whose names we forget but probably have “glaich” or “clathearn” or “morloch” in them. The… Continue reading
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April 24 Glasgow to Glencoe
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We leave our hotel in a flurry of German giants who say they are off booze for the next week because they have sampled all the scotch in Glasgow. A jovial fellow from Arnold Clark car rental picks us up… Continue reading
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April 23 Glasgow
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Our last day in Glasgow, a city that easily opens itself in little moments and grand displays to strangers and offers its history and ongoing reformation to strangers like ourselves, we wake and eat a brunch of eggs benedict and… Continue reading
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April 22 Glasgow
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We board the tube for The Huntarian Museum and Mackintosh House on the grounds of Glasgow University, getting to them just before they open at 10 AM. The house is where he and his wife lived for about 10 years… Continue reading
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April 21 Glasgow
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Glasgow is not London but it’s like a smaller, earlier version of London. How do we think of it? Strangely: like John Knox’s passionate, puritanical spirit leavened London’s wilder culture … reformed it (all puns intended) … but gave it… Continue reading
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April 19-20 London to Glasgow
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Our last day in London turns out to be somewhat anticlimactic because we have not fully planned our trip to Scotland: what to see and where to eat and how, exactly, to get to each place during the remainder of… Continue reading
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