We made it back to York, England on the evening of September 8. We got off the train and walked to our AirBnB accommodations, dropped everything off, and headed straight out to grab dinner at our favourite low-key pub, Lendel Cellars. As soon as we got to York, it felt to both Jon and me that we were coming back […]
We have found Edinburgh to be an extremely expensive city to visit, especially as we stayed in a hotel here and therefore needed to eat out a lot more since we have no kitchen of our own to cook. That said, we found tons of amazing things to do around town that were free or close to it. Portobello Beach […]
During our first trip to Edinburgh in 2011, we stopped at Stirling during an excursion we did. In fact, we did many excursions on that trip. We were excited to do at least one excursion with the girls, to show them other areas of Scotland. We started to second-guess that when we started looking at prices for the excursions. They […]
We arrived in Edinburgh on August 31 after a long, 17-hour travel day from Spain, via a stopover in Stockholm. While walking and wandering around the streets, I was stopping at pretty much every restaurant to check menus and prices, looking for places that seemed good but also wouldn’t break the bank! I stopped at one, which happened to be […]
Our time in Oria and in Spain (for now) has come to an end. Compared to Portugal, the Spanish lifestyle was definitely more challenging to adapt to. Our hosts concurred and did mention that it took them a good year when they moved to Spain from the UK to adjust to that lifestyle. For example, almost every store in town […]