For four days (5-8 July), Peter, Sina, Marisa and I rented a car and drove around Scotland. Here's a summary: On the Saturday we went to a Highland Games at Invergarry, which is about 20 mins south of the southern tip of Loch Ness. When we arrived, it wasn't quite what we imagined.No bleachers or permanent running track. No paved car park. Only a couple of hundred people. But when we got amongst it, the games had everything we were after and a few we didn't...

I had the best of intentions to write a proper entry for this past weekend when we rented a Ford Fiesta and drove around... but it's already Wednesday and it seems so long ago so this will just be the glue to help make the photo album make sense. So: Saturday morning we picked up our car and tried to get out of Edinburgh as quickly and efficiently as possible... and failed. Eventually we made it on the right motorway, then took a turn-off to see the Falkirk Wh...

Let's have a toast! To charity, fixedness, hope A toast! To the day after tomorrow -Gordon Downie, 'Christmastime in Toronto' It's been a while since I blogged here (the nineteenth of October LAST YEAR).Stuff has happened in that time, but not really Travel Blog-worthy activities: Meze worked as a waitress until she started her job in a Forensics Lab (Wildlife DNA, so it doesn't matter if she's a terrorist or not), and I temped for six weeks on a rail infrast...

Ok, so those asiduous visitors to this site will have already figured from the photo album 'Belgium, London and Edinburgh' (the one with pictures of our room in Edinburgh) will know that somethings up. Yes, after doing Brugge and Brussels we did fly back to London and spent a lovely (*slightly sarcastic) ten days trying to find somewhere to live and line up jobs etc. The things was, after lining up an interview (there was a typo in my last post... it was only a...