Month: September 2024

Tuesday night, September 10, 2024 Addendum: As I was finishing up the blog, I realized the faint “music” I had been hearing wasn’t from another room. It was the church bells! We had forgotten that the Change Ringers were practicing ringing the bells at St. Aiden’s tonight! Darn! I really…

Tuesday, September 10, 2024 Sunningdale B&B, Bamburgh, England Today was a restful and relaxing day since we don’t have to pack up. Sunningdale B&B is a family-run B&B is the perfect spot to slow down and enjoy the moment. Breakfast is served between 8:00-9:30 so no running out the door…

September 9, 2024 Correction: First things first. My husband gently encouraged me to actually do the math from yesterday’s post. St. Andrews school was begun 611 years ago. Not over 1,000 years ago, as I had said. So sorry! Goodbye, Scotland This morning we began heading south. After taking the…

Sunday, September 8, 2024 Foggy Sunday The fog was as thick as split pea soup this morning. It had lifted enough to not inhibit driving, but we went over a very long bridge and saw nothing but the road and the cable-stays going up into the clouds. A perfectly lovely…

Saturday, September 7, 2024 Edinburgh, Scotland Today was cool, foggy, and drizzly most of the day. We took the tram into downtown Edinburgh to explore. Though it looks to Americans the name of this city is Ed-in-burg, they pronounce it Ed-in-boro. Another clarification to a curious question I had: what,…

September 4, 2024 What a glorious day!!! Yesterday’s rain and clouds had disappeared and the sun was shining when we left our guesthouse at 6:30am. After finding a public parking lot, figuring out the machine to pre-pay for 2+ days, and figuring out how to get to the ferry (which…

September 3, 2024 Ahhhh… what a difference sleep makes! Especially when followed by a Hampton Inn version of a good English Breakfast. Yesterday, we passed a sign for a cathedral so I looked it up and found that Liverpool has “the largest cathedral in Great Britain” and one of the…