Europe

Looking from the castle walls, east past St. Giles Cathedral to Arthur's Seat.

Edinburgh Castle

2014-03-26 Historic, Tourism 0

We walked up High Street — which in Edinburgh is a mile of kebab/pizza/fish & chips restaurants, historical markers, and tourist tchotchke shops — to […]

Arthur's Seat

Arthur’s Seat

2014-03-26 Hiking 0

GPS gave me a reading of 5.48 miles and 1346 AEG. Haz gave me a 5.04 miles, but no AEG, as it does not yet […]

Rosslyn Chapel

Rosslyn Chapel

2014-03-25 Tourism 0

We trained from Glasgow Queen St. to Ediburgh Waverly (the central station). After checking in to our hotel, we walked north up Bridge St., then […]

Fort Eben-Emael gun position facing across the Canal Albert, towards the Netherlands. (Which Belgium expected Germany to attack across.)

Fort Eben-Emael

2013-05-26 Historic 0

This was our second trip to Fort Eben-Emael, our previous one being when I visited my then girlfriend, now wife, when she still lived in […]

Clouds over the Hotel Steineweiher pond.

St. Vith

2013-05-23 Hiking 0

This was my wife & I’s second trip to St. Vith. (The last time was a few months before I proposed in 2006.) We loved […]