Edinburgh

This castle-type structure on the hill is the first thing we saw getting off the bus coming into town from the Edinburgh airport. I had to also show the double decker bus, of course! We were absolutely dead after 13 hours of flight time; we left 1pm Monday and arrived in Edinburgh 8am Tues which was 4pm local time. Whew! We did a bit of wandering in the city, had a pint at a "free house" and a bite to eat and then crashed for the night at 8pm. We hope we will be mostly adjusted and on local time now. Keeping our fingers crossed!

The weather is what you think Scotland is - wet, rainy, blustery. Tomorrow should be better but in the meantime we will be spending the day sightseeing all the inside places. Cheers!

Today is the day!

I have been packed for 2 days, Jason packed this morning and we are double and triple checking everything....we are outta here! Wish us a safe journey!

It's working!

Cool, looks like I have figured out how to get the pics to show up (I have the Trinidad pics showing now as a placeholder) and I added the map and itinerary.

Tomorrow begins the packing and sorting...

In The Beginning

This is an attempt to keep everyone involved and up to date on our travels during sabbatical. I guess the success of this depends on how often I leave comments and how detailed they are. I will also try to link my pics, if I can figure that out.

1 week....I better start packing!

Addendum:
General Itinerary
4/29 arrive in London, head to Edinburgh
4/30 Edinburgh, Scotland
5/02 St. Andrew's, Scotland
5/03 Newcastle
5/05 Newcastle vs Chelsea soccer match
5/06 Dublin
5/08 head to Munich
5/09 pick up car
5/11 Genoa - meet up with Drew & Kev
5/13 Cinque Terra
5/15 Siena/Tuscany
5/18 Bologna
5/20 Verona
5/21 Venice
5/23 Vienna
5/26 Salzburg
5/29 Prague
6/02 Krakow
6/05 Lodz
6/06 Mazurian Lakes
6/13 Warsaw
6/14 Kiev
6/21 drop off car
6/22 return to Portland