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• Text: ... really about the fantasy of unending victory. And remember how I told you Trump was planning to fly to his golf course in Scotland? Last night First Minster Nicola Sturgeon locked Scotland down due to the raging pandemic. No international flights in or out except for essential t...

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• Text: ...Situated astride the river and the Caledonian Canal, it commands the route system of northern Scotland. Encyclopedia Britannica Flora Macdonald was the young woman who helped Bonnie Prince Charlie escape from Scotland after the Jacobites were routed at the Battle of Culloden in...

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• Text: Wikipedia I just knew Craig was itching to climb it - but no time (and no way to reach it). Tomorrow we begin our journey south in Scotland. Me in my happy place - the green.

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• Text: ... me, to find the car locked and me locked out. I was very cranky by the tine they came back to the car. This was one part of Scotland I didn’t like. On to the Orkneys tomorrow. I found this online: Help us Obi-Wan Kenobi, you’re our only hope. Tomorrow then. ...

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• Text: ...From the top: Robert Burns Memorial. He was known as Rabbie Burns and is regarded as the national poet of Scotland. He only lived for 37 years and among his most notable works is the poem Auld Lang Syne. In this photo you can see me standing awkwardly by a piper. Next: Asher and I on the br...

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• Text: ...ll village in Suffolk England for 4 weeks and AB joined us after this in Cambridge. We then went on a 3 week trip up through Scotland all the way up to the Orkney Islands. It rained the whole 3 days we were there but it was an amazing place. On our second day there we drove across causeways...

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• Text: ... and November All the rest have thirty-one Except March which has 8000 Today’s flashback This is the Falkirk Wheel in Scotland. It connects the Forth and Clyde canals with the Union Canal. It is a rotating boat lift which goes up the right hand side of the grey metal structure and de...

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• Text: ... open the golf courses so you can play golf. Today’s flashback; This is Copenhagen in July 2018. We were about to sail to Scotland and Iceland the next day with CB lecturing on a New York Times cruise. Scandanavia was experiencing an unusual heatwave and when we landed at the airport we ...

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• Text: ...Plus, the Scots have had enough and want to hold another referendum about detaching Scotland from the United Kingdom and returning to the European Union. New York Times More than one million new coronavirus cases in three days. The world recorded the highest total ever in such short span, ...

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• Text: ...In England I think builders are able to return to work - and perhaps manufacturing? Scotland and Wales are retaining the current ‘stay at home’ message. In Michigan we are asked to stay at home until May 28 and all government, county and city committees, boards etc are mandated to mee...

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• Text: ... nervous pony who was most reluctant to go into the water. We also met a forest ranger who was breeding highland cattle from Scotland, and she had permission to keep them in a field near the park. They are very hardy animals with heavy coats, and look at those horns! This is the original...

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• Text: ...Kitts are one country, known as the Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis. His father was from Scotland; his mother from Nevis. Hamilton left the region as a teenager to live in North America. Hamilton’s skills as a writer let him leave the Caribbean In August 1772, Hamilton’s letter to h...

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• Text: ...ater Scottish loch which crosses the Highland Boundary Fault, often considered the boundary between the lowlands of Central Scotland and the Highlands. The Loch forms part of the Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park which was established in 2002. This was the start of our journey in...

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• Text: The castle, situated on a headland overlooking Loch Ness, is one of the largest in Scotland in area.It was approached from the west and defended by a ditch and drawbridge. The buildings of the castle were laid out around two main enclosures on the shore.

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• Text: ...(He’s under the end of the coffee table). Flashback: remember we visited John o’ Groats at the top of mainland Scotland? Well, we also visited Land’s End at the bottommost tip of England. If you went straight south from here you would end up in Spain. And finally, we visited St...

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• Text: Then we drove to Cambridge to meet Asher who was arriving from London by train. We’ll visit Cambridge in tomorrow’s blog and then we’ll set off north to Scotland. Remember: returning to “normal” cannot be our goal.

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• Text: ...So young and yet so bossy - not now Alfie! Still in Edinburgh. Today we visited the National Museum of Scotland. It is full of artifacts and has an excellent cafe where we met a friend of Asher’s with her family for lunch. From the top: on our way to the museum we came across the cafe...

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• Text: ...ə/; from Old Norse Skalpaflói, meaning 'bay of the long isthmus' is a body of water in the Orkney Islands, Scotland, sheltered by the islands of Mainland, Graemsay, Burray, South Ronaldsay and Hoy. Its sheltered waters have played an important role in travel, trade and con...

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• Text: ...The Standing Stones of Stenness is a Neolithic monument five miles northeast of Stromness on the mainland of Orkney, Scotland. This may be the oldest henge site in the British Isles. The monuments at the heart of Neolithic Orkney and Skara Brae proclaim the triumphs of the human spirit in e...