Trip: The World (Part II)
There are [389] stories from my trip: The World (Part II)
UNITED KINGDOM | Tuesday, 10 Jun 2014 | Views [492]
ONE ADVANTAGE OF THIS MORNING’S RAIN - consecutive sunny days would be too much to hope for - was that we had the Ring of Brodgar Stone Circle and Henge all to ourselves. The nasty weather even added to the atmosphere. While the nearby ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Monday, 9 Jun 2014 | Views [526]
THE ORKNEYS ARE NOT KNOWN FOR SUNNY SKIES, which is why today was such a pleasant surprise. Except for a renegade cloud that delivered ten minutes of rain, the day was spectacular. Even the 90-minute ferry crossing from Thurso was as smooth ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Saturday, 7 Jun 2014 | Views [543]
SOME TAKE THE LOW ROAD, SOME TAKE THE HIGH ROAD. We took the long road to the Isle of Skye, with a detour to Urquhart Castle on Loch Ness and a stop in Inverness. It was another great day for driving, light traffic and sunny skies and we ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Thursday, 5 Jun 2014 | Photo Gallery
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UNITED KINGDOM | Thursday, 5 Jun 2014 | Views [2004]
NOT EVERY HOTEL AND B&B IS LISTED ON BOOKING.COM. But when we couldn’t get a reservation on the Isle of Mull we decided it was too risky to take a ferry to the island on the chance we could find a place. Instead we stayed at Oban ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Wednesday, 4 Jun 2014 | Views [640]
THERE ARE CASTLES . . . AND THERE ARE CASTLES. Even the largest, most luxurious were dreary, drafty and cold. The smaller castles, like Campbell, Doune, Newark, Dumbarton and Dunstaffnage must have been truly nasty places to live, not nearly ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Monday, 2 Jun 2014 | Views [1963]
LISTENING TO THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND PODCAST has given us a decent understanding of Scotland’s history, intertwined as it is with England's. And so often the stories converge around Stirling Castle, sometimes under English control, sometimes ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Sunday, 1 Jun 2014 | Views [684]
WE’VE SET UP TEMPORARILY AT ST. BLANES B&B on the bonnie, bonnie banks of Loch Lohman. We intended to stay only a couple of nights but the location is convenient to so much that we decided to stay a while. It’s a comfortable ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Friday, 30 May 2014 | Views [472]
THE PUB AT THE BALBAIRDIE HOTEL WAS HOPPING and a wee taste of whiskey was mighty tempting. But it was already after ten, it had been a long day and bed was even more enticing. Our flight to Glasgow was delayed by ten hours and we spent ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Thursday, 29 May 2014 | Photo Gallery
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ICELAND | Wednesday, 28 May 2014 | Views [2044]
WE COULD SEE A TONGUE OF THE VATNAJOKULL GLACIER from our hotel room in Hofn. Of the five glaciers in Iceland, Vatnajokull is by far the largest, perhaps as big as the other four combined. One hundred miles later we were still driving on ... Read more >
ICELAND | Monday, 26 May 2014 | Views [2033]
WE HAVE SEEN ATLANTIC PUFFINS BEFORE, of course, in both England and Newfoundland. But we always have time for these clowns of the bird world, so we drove north from Egilsstadir to Hafnarholmi nesting site on Borgarfjordur. We expected ... Read more >
ICELAND | Sunday, 25 May 2014 | Views [700]
NAMAFJALL WASN'T ON OUR TOURIST MAP but the plumes of steam were visible from the Ring Road. There were enough cars in the lot to attract our attention but not enough to signal "crowd," so we pulled in. There would be little else of interest ... Read more >
ICELAND | Saturday, 24 May 2014 | Views [1452]
THE RING ROAD CIRCLES THE "PALM" OF ICELAND - this should be easy for you Michiganders to visualize - for some 1300 kilometers. It is considerably longer if you travel up the “fingers” like we have. We shan’t be coming this ... Read more >
ICELAND | Wednesday, 21 May 2014 | Views [1745]
NOT EVEN THAT INTREPID DUO CROSBY AND HOPE ventured upon the Road to Stykksholmur. To our surprise, Sir Clive, our trusty SatNav, knew the way from Reykjavik. Or rather, his way. Clive has acquiesced to our frequent birding stops, photo ... Read more >
ICELAND | Monday, 19 May 2014 | Views [1268]
AFTER A GOOD NIGHT'S SLEEP AND BREAKFAST we loaded up with brochures from tourist information and sat down to make a plan. (We have no guidebook for Iceland but I am #1 on the library’s e-book waitlist.) We would love to go up to the ... Read more >
ICELAND | Sunday, 18 May 2014 | Views [566]
IT WAS 11:30 PM WHEN WE LANDED to a pink sunset at Iceland’s Keflavik Airport. Where winter daytime in Tromsø, Norway was two hours of twilight at noon, midnight in Iceland is like pre-dawn. I turned on the lights on ... Read more >
ICELAND | Sunday, 18 May 2014 | Photo Gallery
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UNITED KINGDOM | Wednesday, 14 May 2014 | Views [453]
WE DECIDED TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE WONDERFUL sunshine and head to Greenwich and the ferry is a good way to travel while combining London’s sights without the crowds of the sightseeing boats. Big Ben tolled ten times as the ferry slid into ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Tuesday, 13 May 2014 | Views [499]
THE BRITISH MUSEUM HAS ONE OF THE FINEST collections in the world, between six and eight million artifacts courtesy of the Empire’s rapacious explorers and collectors of the 19 th Century. We returned today In search of the remaining 35 ... Read more >
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