Scotland and Wales!

I'm slipping. Life has gotten too interesting and busy now to keep up with the blog. That's a good thing. So, no deep musings this time, just some photos of the the last two weekend trips. Above, the Scotland trip. The first pic shows that Sasi has truly embraced our vagabond lifestyle. She's a great little traveler. The next is me at Arthur's seat - the highest of the 7 volcanic hills surrounding Edinburgh. For our third night, we traveled across the Firth of Forth to stay in a B&B in The Kingdom of Fife - just a few miles from Kirkaldy, the birthplace of Adam Smith. Gorgeous sea air and beaches, very very nice service and excellent food at the Kingswood Inn. We spent nearly all our time at the beach. It was sad to leave - we both want to live there.

The next weekend it was Wales with the ILACA group. Due to Martin's wealth of experience and tremendous ability for planning, we had a fantastic and varied time - everything from 3rd Century Roman ruins to the ruins of 19th/20th industrialism (we traveled 300 ft underground to the damp and dark depths of an idled coal mine now turned into The Museum of Mining). Natural beauty abounds. We stayed in a hostel in a national park near the village of Tal y bont. Gorgeous and friendly horses, scads of sheep, green rolling hills neatly divided by well planned windbreaks and rustic stone walls. It reminded me of the gorgeous countryside outside Philadelphia - no accident that the Welsh found themselves home in Eastern, PA - nearly the same geography, industry, etc.

Here's some photos: