One of the highlights of visiting Edinburgh is making the trek to the west up the Royal Mile and hiking the remainder of the climb up to Edinburgh Castle. There has been a royal presence there since the 1100’s and… Continue reading

In the morning we headed over to the University of Glasgow, intending to see the Mackintosh Rooms at the Art Museum. Instead of a 30 minute walk the receptionist at the hotel suggested we take the subway. Yes, there is… Continue reading

As far as significant contributions by national architects go, some may say the US had Frank Lloyd Wright, the French had Le Corbusier, the Germans had Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and the Scots had Charles Rennie Mackintosh (CRM) –… Continue reading

These two have nothing to do with each other. Although Charles Rennie Mackintosh was an architect and a Scot, and one of eleven children, scotch predated Charles by a long shot, both are unrelated and were experienced on separate days… Continue reading

This morning started out with a ride with a few folks in a small boat to another small uninhabited island north of Iona – Staffa. Why the hour-long boat trip? To see an island that formed about 6 million years… Continue reading

So the ferry from the mainland (Oban) to the Isle of Mull (Craignure) involves loading the rental onto (and into) the belly of the CM ferry for the one hour crossing. After the off-loading that’s when things get interesting, but… Continue reading

We made it to Oban! Still working on the pronunciation (which is Oh-bin). After an overnight flight a full travel day, +4 hours of driving on the left, takes its toll but well worth pressing on. There was a break… Continue reading

Golf (no), Driving on the left (yup), Food (aye), Haggis (NFW), Highlands (for sure), Scotch (ditto), Charles Rennie Mackintosh (architect – have to). Leaving soon at the top of the dial… Continue reading

Today began really early, 6:10 at the Kihei boat ramp for a two-tank dive to the Molokini Crater and then a boat transit to a reef and lava tube dive at Makena. The sun doesn’t really get going here until… Continue reading

This morning was a dive day, with a two-tank shore dive from the beach at Makena Cove with Maui Diving. We have not done a shore dive since our initial certification, which involves piling all your gear, tanks, etc., into… Continue reading