A couple of weeks ago there was a double protest against renewing the Trident nuclear program here in Britain and against the Iraq war. The fact that you have to combine to protests just to get people out is one of many things I found funny about this demonstration. We didn't come out to attend this protest. Fact is, we went to the National ( Read more... )

Short video. You get the gist.

-bcv

It's snowing.

Okay. I lied. I'm skipping the Scotland updates, at least for now. Basically on the last day we saw Loch Ness in it's entirety (all 800 trillion gallons) and then went through Inverness. We saw the Culloden battlefield, which Robin might write about? And we saw the Clava Cairns stone circles, another set of stones that were older than Stone ( Read more... )

Saturday morning we set out bright and early (although we left a little later than scheduled due to Martin the guide oversleeping). We made our way from the foot of Loch Ness towards the Isle of Skye, an island off the northwest coast. One of our first stops was Eilann Dolin Castle, the famous castle from movies and previous livejournal posts ( Read more... )

Martin, one of our two tour guides/bus drivers, started the 3 day tour jokingly describing the high street of Edinburgh, “And to your left there’s a Vodaphone shop, and an O2 shop, and a Carphone Warehouse. Just in case you need to buy any mobile phones while staying here in the city. And to your left, there’s another Vodaphone shop.” Thus began ( Read more... )

We kicked off March (our last full month abroad, AHH!) by going on a tour of Scotland. Its strange living abroad in hopes of traveling because, just like living back in Kentucky, your home base becomes a jumping off point and not a place of travel itself. We combated that some in Ireland by visiting New Grange and Galway, but we never did make it ( Read more... )

We are right in the middle of a very busy couple of weeks ( Read more... )

To the south of the city is Montjuic, a small mountain full of parks and site of the Olympic stadium. The stadium itself is pretty run down at this point, home now to a lower level professional football team. But the surrounding grounds are still a popular place to lounge around, even in February. With artificial waterways and fountains, large ( Read more... )

Buildings, view from roof of La Pedrera.

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