Author Archives: hedera
Music in Carmel, 2023
In 2022 when we went to the Carmel Bach Festival, we came home with COVID (even though we had to prove our vaccination status and wear masks to every indoor concert). I may write that trip up one of these … Continue reading
Halloween 2022
Walking around the neighborhood, I’ve noticed some really imaginative Halloween decorations, not just the purchased styrofoam tombstones (which have the same inscriptions in every yard!). I’ve taken some photos, and if I find any more this good I’ll take more. … Continue reading
Home from the Celtic Isles
Yes, I wrote up Edinburgh Castle last November, and yes, that was the end of the tours to the Celtic Isles. But we still had to get home; and I found some notes about that trip in my travel diary … Continue reading
Edinburgh Castle
As I promised in the last post, this one is dedicated to Edinburgh Castle. The photos are all in the Edinburgh gallery; I won’t be posting all of them, so feel free to go look. Here is the first photo … Continue reading
Finally, Edinburgh
Having spent much of yesterday on a bus traveling from our last port to Glasgow, and then on to Edinburgh, we now spent this day riding around Edinburgh and vicinity on a bus. I took some photos of Edinburgh streets … Continue reading
Touring Glasgow
The day after we toured Glencoe and Glenfinnan (see The Scottish Highlands post), those of us who paid for the tour extension left the boat, with luggage, and were bused to Glasgow, for the first part of the extension. The … Continue reading
The Scottish Highlands
On the last day of the actual tour we made two stops, at Glen Coe and Glenfinnan. The photos for this day are all in the gallery Scottish Highlands. We came ashore in the morning at Fort William, after breakfast … Continue reading
The Isle of Mull
As I said in my last post, our trip to Iona ended with a ferry ride to the Isle of Mull, where the tour company had taken the bus we didn’t use on Iona. In fact, the cruise instructions say … Continue reading
Iona
Leaving Wales, we approached one of the spots that made me decide to take the cruise: Iona. Iona is a tiny island (about 1 mile wide by 4 miles long) off the west coast of Scotland, with a resident population … Continue reading
Touring Wales
The gallery with photos of this day is Touring Wales. There are many more photos of Bodnant Garden than I’ve included here. The sky was reasonably clear when the ship pulled into Holyhead harbor in Wales, but that was very … Continue reading
