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Dublin Castle So here I am, lovers of castles and old things and much to my surprise, Dublin Castle is not the “old castle” that I just assumed. We Americans just assume the word castle means old as dirt and tons of battles must have had here and dungeons, blood, guts and wenching. Possibly royalty …
Breakfast Did I mention how wonderful our hosts were at Bunree? If not I will again. Una and Hamish were so nice and helpful and great cooks!! After a wonderful meal, we headed out to Halbeath Park and Ride to take the bus into Edinburgh. I recommend taking public transportation as much as you can, some places …
The Palace This is my second visit and I believe it was Paula’s 1st visit to Dunfermline Palace and Abbey. I loved it here, heck I love all the castles, castle ruins, and abbeys, etc. that I have been to in Scotland. The Royals Many of the Scottish monarchs favored Dunfermline as a residence. History …
Poppi. Who knew? We were going to be driving for a while on day three from Pisa to San Marino, FYI that is a small country in Italy. We wanted to avoid the expensive toll roads as much as possible and a couple hours drive was not too bad right? Ugg, it was a long …
The Square of Miracles Back to “square” one! No pun intended. We started out day here at the Leaning Tower and took off on an unplanned awesome adventure. After lunch, we weaved our way back to the Square of Miracles. Next up, Camposanto. Here is the website for the Square of Miracles. https://www.opapisa.it/en/ It is also …
Who knew? I mean when we were looking up stuff to do, the regular tourist stuff, this super cool medieval wall just did not hit the radar. We saw it. While up on the leaning tower of Pisa, we saw it. Just kind of looked like an old wall at first ending off to our …
Welcome to Italy! Welcome to my post on my Italian vacation. Pisa will be our first stop. I came here with my friend Whitney, a well deserved vacation for both of us. Where do I begin? Well, we took our long flight, out of LAX which I am not a fan of the traffic, but …
Balvenie Castle Near enough for a day drive from Aberdeen. I did make it to my B&B and it was a wonderful sleep and delicious breakfast. Off I went, after Dave parked my car for me the night before… I tell you after this trip, I am so much more confident driving on the left …
The Isle of Skye Just the name sounds heavenly. Driving over the bridge to Skye is a wonder to see. I have to admit, this trip in 2016, my photos were either tons or few and on Skye, it was hit or miss. I have mentioned that I had to use a tablet because the …