Michael and I just got back from an quick (by European standards) summer vacay adventure driving around Scotland. I will not endeavor to post everything at once, but will write a few shorter posts about the main stops. If you want to skip right to the pictures from the whole trip - click here. Our journey started in Edinburgh, where we spent two days getting acclimated to the Scottish version of the English language and making sure to look in the other direction before crossing the road. Even though I lived in Scotland for a year during undergrad, I only visited Edinburgh a handful of times, so there were still a lot of things I hadn't seen. We visited the "Honors of Scotland" (aka, Scottish crown jewels) at the Edinburgh Castle, walked up and down the Royal Mile a countless times (in the sunshine and in the rain), enjoyed the highly-informative and tasty Scotch Whiskey Experience, visited the Queen's main digs when she's in Edinburgh at the Holyrood Palace, and tapped in to our inner child at the Camera Obscura, Scotland is an incredibly beautiful country - but it's entirely due to the fact that it appears to rain 360 days out of the year. So while our first day in Edinburgh was all blue skies... Our second day was nothing but rain... I think the weather has a lot to do with the excellent whiskey culture in Scotland. When it's pouring outside, what better way to pass the time than to head to the nearest pub and order a nice smooth glass of your favorite whiskey? Michael agrees.
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