Every cruise stop on this trip involved interesting real life stories of kings and castles, art and religion, writers and…
“All the leaves are brown, and the skies are grey. I’ve been on a walk, on a winter’s day.” That…
The cruise ship stopped in Inverness. We had several options for tours, and elected to take a bus to Dunrobin…
The Orkney Islands are at the northern edge of Scotland, meaning that we have finished working our way up the…
Most everyone has heard of Mary, queen of Scots, aka Bloody Mary. It not, they might have heard of William…
For much of my life I have heard the news of the strife and rebellion in northern Ireland in general,…
Ah, Dublin. The city of poets and pubs, of bridges and beer. Our day in port was spent on a…
Cork was our first stop in Ireland. While it has interesting sights, we chose to do a bus excursion to…
Well, what do you do when the first cruise ship stop is a small, unassuming port whose major attraction is…
Stratford-Upon-Avon is a medieval market town in West Midlands, England. As the birthplace of the most famous writer in English…