I woke up today with a traditional Scottish breakfast at the hotel. A traditional Scottish breakfast consists of eggs, a tomato, sausage, bacon, baked beans, and bread.… Read more “6/21 Roamin’ Solo Day Three: More Fairies, Seals, and a Luggage Reunion”

I still had a big smile on my face when I woke up this morning and was probably smiling the whole time I was asleep. The first… Read more “6/20 Roamin’ Solo Day Two: Hangin’ with the “Wee Folk””

This morning I lugged my heavy bag all the way downtown to the National Library of Scotland, where we were to meet with some archivists. The bag… Read more “6/19 Roamin’ Solo Day One: Roamin’ Up High through the Lands to the Skye”

Today we set off to Alloway, a small town close to Ayr where the famous Scottish poet and bard Robert Burns was born. It was nice to… Read more “6/18 Third-Degree Burns”

This morning we set off for Glasgow, in which we got to use our Britrail passes for the first time. In the train station before we left,… Read more “6/17 Teatime and Tombstones”

In the morning we had class again. The highlight of the class for me was Emily’s rap that we worked on the night before. I was very… Read more “6/16 Wonderment”

We had a good breakfast in Oban then headed out for the last day of our Highland adventure. Our first stop was in Glencoe, which is a… Read more “6/15 Highlands Day Three: Woodland Wonders and Stirling Silver”

The second day of the Highlands adventure began with a breakfast equally impressive as the dinner the previous night. After eating breakfast we headed back out into… Read more “6/14 Highlands Day Two: Attack of the Killer Midges”

We set off into the Scottish Highlands after breakfast and loaded up onto a bus. Our driver, Jimmy, seemed very knowledgeable about Scotland and was a damn… Read more “6/13 Highlands Day One: Spooks in St. Andrews”

We had our first class meeting this morning. It was interesting to see the presentations from the literature class and to hear the ideas from the media… Read more “6/12 Edinburgh Castle”