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Edinburgh, Part Two
On our third day in Edinburgh, August 24th, we had tickets to tour Edinburgh Castle at 12:30, so we decided to head over close to Old Town after breakfast and hike to the top of Arthur’s Seat, an ancient volcano that we had noticed from the Royal Mile on Tuesday. The hike to the summit…
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Edinburgh, Part One
On the morning of August 22nd we took a train from Perth to Edinburgh, Scotland. The ride between the two cities is short, so we were able to stash our bags at our hotel by 1:00 and head to Old Town. We had heard good things about Edinburgh from our guidebook and several people, so…
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Perth – It Was Just What We Needed
We arrived in Perth, Scotland on Sunday, August 20th late in the afternoon. It was a sleepy, quiet afternoon – we’d come to learn that is the norm in the UK on Sundays. Scott planned for us to take a bus to our hostel, so we walked towards downtown from the train station to…
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Two Month Review
We left home two months ago today on July 19th. Although we are currently in the Netherlands and there are several places we’ve visited that I have not blogged about yet, I’m going to stop and review how things are going. Overall, I’d say things are going well. I would still rather be doing this…
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Hadrian’s Wall & A Good Story
Hadrian’s Wall is a stone wall built by the Roman army in 122 AD while Hadrian was ruling the empire. It spans the entire width of Northern England, an impressive seventy-three miles, and marks the northern boundary of the Roman Empire on the Island. Hadrian’s Wall today is only a fraction of the size it…
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“The Best Laid Plans of . . .
. . . of mice and men often go awry.” How appropriate that this quote is from Robert Burns, one of Scotland’s most celebrated and well-known poets, seeing how our plans to see Scotland did not pan out. Our time in the Lake District began what we planned to be a two-week “road-trip style” jaunt…
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The Lake District
We left the Cotswolds on August 15th and headed to the Lake District. It was a long travel day because of having to return the rental car in Oxford and the combinations of trains and buses to get to Keswick (Kez – ick), the town where we stayed. The Lake District is England’s largest and…
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Benthall Hall
Before I married Scott, my name was Jessica Sue Benthall, pronounced to rhyme with “menthol.” At some point in my childhood my mother told us that our family name was dying out with our generation. My Benthall grandfather had been the youngest of eight children, seven of whom lived to adulthood – four girls (Golda, …
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The Cotswolds
After Bath, we spent a week (August 8th thru the 15th) in the Cotswolds. It was a relaxing week and somewhat of a vacation inside this trip. We chose to stay in a quaint little cottage in Blockley because it’s the iconic filming location of the BBC show Father Brown based on GK Chesterton’s short…
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