2024 England/Scotland Pilgrimage Saint Columba’s Way September 9, 2024September 9, 2024Monday, September 9, 2024 Iona to St. Andrews is St. Columba’s Way Gregg realized some people take a month to walk the route we did by a 3-day drive going from Iona to St. Andrews. Here is a picture from his British National Trust Pilgrimages book. We see the bridge!… Continue Reading
2024 England/Scotland Pilgrimage England/Scotland 2024 Pilgrimage – Day 8: Dundee, St. Andrews, Pittenweem September 8, 2024December 18, 2024Sunday, 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… Continue Reading
2024 England/Scotland Pilgrimage England/Scotland 2024 Pilgrimage – Day 7 September 7, 2024December 18, 2024Saturday, 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,… Continue Reading
2024 England/Scotland Pilgrimage England/Scotland 2024 Pilgrimage – Day 6 September 6, 2024December 18, 2024Friday, September 6, 2024 Another Lovely Morning on Iona We both slept like logs and can’t tell you what the midnight sky looked like because we slept through it. The fresh air, wind, sunshine, walking, climbing, processing new things like “keep left!” and straining to understand English in various accents… Continue Reading
2024 England/Scotland Pilgrimage England/Scotland 2024 Pilgrimage – Day 5 September 5, 2024December 18, 2024September 5, 2024 Iona’s Night Sky Iona has received the Dark Skies designation. I’ve been hoping we’d experience at least one clear night sky while we were here. And last night was GORGEOUS! We saw the big Dipper above the cross as we left the 9:00 pm service at the… Continue Reading
2024 England/Scotland Pilgrimage England/Scotland 2024 Pilgrimage – Day 4 September 4, 2024December 18, 2024September 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… Continue Reading
2024 England/Scotland Pilgrimage England/Scotland 2024 Pilgrimage – Day 3 September 3, 2024December 18, 2024September 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… Continue Reading
2024 England/Scotland Pilgrimage England/Scotland 2024 Pilgrimage – Day 2 September 3, 2024December 18, 2024Monday, September 2, 2024 England Adventures London’s passport control has been automated which, theoretically, makes the process much faster. Once Gregg figured out how to put his passport into the scanner, he was “green light to go.” Me next. Not so fast, girly. After three “try agains,” I got “seek… Continue Reading
2024 England/Scotland Pilgrimage England/Scotland 2024 Pilgrimage – Day 1 September 3, 2024December 18, 2024Sunday, September 1, 2024 Today is the long-awaited day our Pilgrimage begins! Our flight out of Dulles (Washington, DC) wasn’t until 10pm so we were able to go to our church, Trinity Episcopal, in Morgantown, WV. It was good to worship with them. Afterwards, we went home to charge the… Continue Reading