On the road again

As we were staring in disbelief at the "TSA guy", who emptied our plastic baggies, when leaving the airport in Edinburgh, while protesting that we came in with the same content in our baggies from Amsterdam, and that we there passed inspection, he simply replied: "they should have done what we are now doing here in God's country.   Edinburgh a port city   A view of the castle I will spare you his follow up opinion about the US TSA system. In the end however, he was kind enough to let us choose which bottles we wanted to place in his slightly larger plastic baggies, before confiscating the rest, claiming, that the deodorant and toothpaste were liquids.   Scotland colorful and amazing views Those words "God's Country", keep resonating in my head, as I review and choose the pictures for this blog.   We never pass up arboretums anywhere In the two weeks we spent in Scotland, we visited Edinburgh (Scots pronounce it as Edinborough, stressing the latter part ...

And then there was "Edinborough", the start of our trip. Our Airbnb was perfectly located midway on the Royal Mile. As a regular VRBO traveller it pains me to say, that we now sometimes have to use Airbnb's, just because they are more and more at locations where we want to stay.   Our lodging above the bar smack in the middle of the Royal Mile in Old Town Allan was a perfect host with welcome goodies and a bottle of wine, coffee and tea and toilet paper as well as all bathroom toiletries for a week. We had to only shop for food. Even hotels don't provide that much service.   We thank Laura and Michael for a wonderful evening and the lesson in scotch sampling As we were planning the details of our trip to this country we had long desired to visit, we made contact with the minister who married us in Amsterdam in 2011, then an assistant minister at our Amsterdam Scottish Reformed Church in the Begijnenhof.    Don't think I want to live above this store     Roy...