It was a trip we would NEVER forget.Being of Scottish decent, my wife had always dreamed of going to Scotland; and this year, we decided to make that dream a reality.The first leg of our journey was spent in Belgium visiting with my ailing mother; and though we were...
On Monday I began telling the story of our infamous trip to Scotland, and how we got off on a very bad start when we missed our connector in London to Aberdeen, resulting in us having to spend the night in London. We were pretty sure that was a bad as it coule get......
The first official day in Scotland dawned bright and clear. Because of the thunderstorm, we may have lost all of the eastern portion of our Scotland trip, but we had an extra day to enjoy Inverness and the beautiful Loch Ness. As it turned out, that was one of the...
That first morning in Portree, on the Isle of Skye, dawned bright and beautiful. We had been in Scotland long enough to know the weather could turn at any moment, so we decided to head straight for the Old Man of Storr. This beautiful rock formation that looked for...
The morning we left the Isle of Skye, we sloshed through the pouring rain to load our car. Now that we finally had our luggage, this actually took a tiny bit of time... The windshield wipers continued their work as we drove off the island. We did have a couple of...
As we returned to our bed and breakfast after our thorough "washing" at Hadrian's Wall, we had yet another reason to worry about the incessant moisture that fell from the sky. Months earlier, when planning this trip, we had purchased tickets for the Royal Edinburgh...
Why are some believers so judgmental?On June 7, 1944, after V-day in Normandy, King Leopold the Third, King of Belgium, was deported to Germany with his family under suspicion of collaboration with the Germans. On September 8, 1944 the Belgian population celebrated...