“Curiouser and curiouser!” Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland It was 8:30 on a chilly mid-August morning as Herb and I headed out on what we thought was a walking tour to Lews Castle, an impressive structure that looks out over the town of Stornoway on Scotland’s Isle of Lewis. We boarded our ship’s shuttle for … Read More
It’s about a five-minute drive from the Main Street of Tobermory to Isle of Mull Cheese & Spirit Farm, artisanal producer of cheddar and blue cheeses. Known in Scottish Gaelic as Sgriob-Ruadh, the farm also houses a distillery and holds bragging rights as being a completely sustainable operation. It’s a tranquil, picturesque landscape of emerald … Read More
“Doubling and doubling with laborious walk, Who, that has gained at length the wished-for Height, This brief, this simple wayside Call can slight, and rests not thankful?” ~William Wordsworth, Rest and be Thankful [At the Head of Glencroe] This was one of those cruise travel days I wasn’t quite sure how to fill. Our ship … Read More
“Wherever I wander, wherever I rove, The hills of the Highlands for ever I love.” ~Robert Burns You could almost hear bagpipes calling through the misty, moody landscape of the Scottish Highlands. There was an immediate sense of loneliness – a yearning – that mixed with the wind as it swirled through the emerald hills … Read More
We had traveled to Scotland to visit our daughter Emily, who was a student at the Edinburgh College of Art and was staying on to work there over the summer. The beginning of the trip was a family vacation before settling into Edinburgh for a week. It was a chance for us to spend a … Read More