Category Archives: Vacations
Yosemite in November – rest of the trip
When we came down for breakfast Sunday, we met a new restaurant employee, a pleasant black man who greeted and seated us. He said he was from New York and asked if we knew anything about the people he saw … Continue reading
Yosemite in November – Exploring the Valley
Saturday morning we woke up to a clear sunny day. The fog had cleared for the moment. Temperatures varied from the high 30s to the low 40s, and as long as you were in the sun it wasn’t too bad. … Continue reading
Yosemite in November
My husband Jim’s birthday is November 12, and this year he turned 70. He likes to celebrate his “big” birthdays in Yosemite, so he made reservations for the weekend of November 15 – 17 at the Ahwahnee Hotel. We drove … Continue reading
Starting Concert Week
For us, Monday of concert week at the Bach Festival always starts with the All Bach Organ Recital in the Carmel Mission Basilica. This is a solid hour of nothing but Bach fugues played on the basilica organ. No stops … Continue reading
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
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
