Ireland/Scotland Trip 2018

Today is our last day of touring, for tomorrow we travel. We left the Roman Camp Hotel (a very pink structure) after a delicious breakfast. Pat had the typical Scotland breakfast, consisting of poached eggs, haggis, and some kind of

Last night I didn’t sleep well, maybe three hours, and then at breakfast I managed somehow to wrench a muscle in my back. So not a good start. But we had a nice breakfast and headed south. Along the way

We liked the bathroom at Muckrach House. Nice and big. (European bathrooms always seem too small.) We have had good food everywhere we’ve been. The only things I won’t eat are haggis and wood pigeon. I also opted out on

We woke to a bright blue sky, ate a leisurely breakfast and then walked the expansive gardens of Douneside House. Wow. The lady who used to own the place was quite the gardener and her trust goes to keeping the

Well, I now have the song The Bonnie Banks O’ Loch Lomond streaming constantly in my head. Can’t shake it. “You tyke the high road, and I’ll tyke the low road…” I like the version by Peter Hollens. We rented

We’ve managed to shift our body clocks three hours, but not five yet. So we go to sleep around 2:30 am and get up around 10:00 am. Ah, well. Today we went to see Holyrood Palace, or the Palace at

Another day of gorgeous weather! Still having a little trouble adjusting to the time zone, so we slept until almost 10:30 am. We ate breakfast at the hotel, then headed up the Royal Mile again to go tour Edinburgh Castle.

Finally got a good night’s sleep and then flew out of Dublin in the early afternoon. Took a turbo-prop to Edinburgh. Weather is great here, too, although somewhat chillier in the evening. Again, taxi driver was almost impossible to understand

Got to try out the Delta One accommodations on an overnight trip from Boston to Dublin. I actually got some sleep! Arrived in Dublin on Monday morning, around 10:00 am. Weather was just perfect! Took a cab from the airport