Picture taken by Kara DiDomizio, 7 January 2023 It's been nearly 4 years since I last updated this blog. Originally, I had some posts on queue and then the pandemic occurred. It didn't occur for me to write or reminsce then. Now I realize that I want to revisit writing and traveling but I don't… Continue reading It All Comes Back To edinburgh
Category: United Kingdom Travel
A Looking Glass Into Linlithgow
I had 48 hours to scour Scotland, and when weather proved advantageous, I knew that I wanted to explore more than beyond the city limits of Edinburgh. I wanted to visit one of the smaller historic towns that also played a significant role in both Medieval and Stuart-era history. I selected Linlithgow as the first… Continue reading A Looking Glass Into Linlithgow
History Happened Here: Hampton Court
Divorced. Beheaded. Died. Divorced. Beheaded. Survived. When we think of Henry VIII's reign, a lot of us may feel we are so far removed from that time period that we can't truly conceptualize how big of an impact this late-in-life obese, larger than life tyrant played in British or world history. I have always been… Continue reading History Happened Here: Hampton Court
Edinburgh – A Tale of One City: Two Perspectives, Part 2
"Half a capital and half a country town, the city leads a double existence; it has long trances of the one and flashes of the other; like the king of the Black Isles, it is half alive and half a monumental marble."Robert Louis Stevenson When the cab left us outside Grantham Station that March morning,… Continue reading Edinburgh – A Tale of One City: Two Perspectives, Part 2
Edinburgh – A Tale of One City: Two Perspectives, Part 1
“This is a city of shifting light, of changing skies, of sudden vistas. A city so beautiful it breaks the heart again and again.”Alexander McCall Smith Three flights, and two layovers later, and I was almost regretting my decision to land directly into Edinburgh instead of London Heathrow and taking the train north. At London… Continue reading Edinburgh – A Tale of One City: Two Perspectives, Part 1
Peacoat Travels 