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At least you know! No guessing as when I crossed into Germany from the Netherlands…
1 week agoWowza!
1 week agoHow fun, Jill and Dave! Allerton is a lovely street on the other side of our highway ! :)
1 week agoHow fun! I live on Melrose Avenue.. ( not interred..yet) (and another street corner)
1 week agoYour logistics for the cruise, a project that was supposed to sidestep logistics, are exciting but a bit mind boggling. I know this because I tried to recite the plan to Dodie, just after reading it, and got muddled. But it goes through some of our favourite areas and will be fun to follow.
About the rooms at the end of the corridors - yes, we find this too. When I am looking at the numbers on the doors, trying to find our spot, I can almost always assume that through Booking we got the one way down at the end!
About Rosslyn Chapel, surprising that neither you nor apparently they mentioned the Da Vinci code?
so glad to hear that others also have the train chaos we experienced. Still so many strangers have helped us every time!
1 week agoI feel your pain on train travel and agree that we can only handle on change as well. I always search for posts to figure out whether or not the exit from the train is flat or if you have to manhandle your bike down from the train to reach the platform!
1 week agoK and I had the incredibly good fortune to visit Edinburgh the first time (as a couple) on a rainy day (no surprise) in late October 1989. There were no tourists or anyone that we could remotely construe as tourists to be seen. We spent the day tromping around the Castle, Holyroodhouse, the Mile (still pretty tacky way back then) and were pretty exhausted as we were heading back to our car to drive back to Glasgow. We had parked near St Mary’s Episcopalian Cathedral in the West End and as we were walking by the cathedral we heard some music coming from inside. We peeked in and saw an empty church bar two musicians, one on a harpsichord and the other on violin who were in a final rehearsal for a concert they were giving the next day. We sat down, out of the rain, and were enthralled for the next 40 minutes or so with this private concert in an otherworldly setting. St Mary’s is the ‘home’ for one of the elite music school in the UK (Yehudi Menuhin was their patron) and these were probably a couple of their students. It’s a moment in time that Kirsten and I still remember so vividly 36 years later. Fortunately for us, this is often what we think of when Edinburgh is mentioned (we do have some tourist oriented horror stories too- did you see the ‘Gobble & Go’ restaurant on the mile???) so it is possible to have a magical time there … just maybe not in July ;)
Looks like a great trip and you seem to be finding some great bike routes, so much so that K and I are giving a Scotland tour seriously consideration.
I'm loving all your Scotland entries! The scenery looks amazing.
2 weeks agoClaustrophobic !
2 weeks agoDave, see my forum post about exercise for dodgy knees.
It has certainly helped me.
amazing!
2 weeks agoWe too have resorted to propping the door open in vain efforts to get the air moving in small hotel rooms with windows that don't open much and no a.c.. Helps, but not enough.
2 weeks agoWOW!
2 weeks ago
And..it’s sunny!
1 week ago