St. Giles’ Cathedral, Edinburgh

Continuing our grand tour of churches ERR’WHERE, we visited St. Giles’ Cathedral in Edinburgh. St. Giles can be distinguished from the myriad other churches we have visited by its sick stone crown (and also, it’s Presbyterian, and I don’t think Read More

Edinburgh Castle

Growing up, Europe was very far away and while I had been around Europe (France, Italy, Austria) in high school and through Heathrow once or twice as an adult, I’d never actually visited the United Kingdom (nor had Severin). I Read More

Scenes from Scotland

Scotland was spectacular. Scottish people just seem to be a little more hardy, prouder, and stronger than the rest of us. Maybe it’s the climate. Maybe it’s because I’ve seen Braveheart a few times and am just experiencing confirmation bias. Read More

Around Edinburgh

TRUE STORY:  Scotland’s official spirit animal is the unicorn.  Edinburgh was awesome. In addition to having unicorns, it was a nice mix of history (beautiful stone buildings) and modernity (good cocktail bars). Six months on, I can’t tell you about Read More

Whisky (Not Whiskey)

When in Scotland, you must drink whisky, and you must spell whisky without the “e”! It seems like there are about a million distilleries to choose from. We didn’t want to to overdue it, so we picked the two that Read More

Stirling Castle & Environs

There is nothing worse than realizing, at the beginning of your two-week vacation, immediately after you’ve walked into an extraordinarily picturesque castle in the Scottish countryside, that the large DSLR camera you have lugged with you is broken. The situation Read More

#ColdandGreen2016

Summer in Cyprus began in early May, and now here we are to almost mid-September and my car’s thermometer still routinely reads over 35 celsius when I leave work in the evening (that’s 95 farenheit for you folks following along Read More