Tessa's Blog Hi everyone! It is Tessa reporting from Scotland. Is it ever beautiful; the sights we've seen are insane. I've enjoyed every moment of it. You should see the amount of sheep we've seen here, it is hilarious. Sheep there wait over there, wait… THEY'RE EVERYWHERE! I am having an amazing time! We took the scenic route to Apple Cross and was it ever amazing. We went up a huge hill and we went into the clouds. I got out and stood in the clouds!!...

Happy anniversary! We decided that today would be a lay-around lazy day, spent swimming, lounging by the pool, reading, and updating the blog. At the end of the day, we went out for supper for our anniversary. At first, we weren't going to take the kids but when we couldn't find a fast food place, we brought them along for pizza and spaghetti. Barry and Margaret had the meze (meze is not an appetizer (although meze dishes can be served as appetizers), but rather...

Last night reminded us, quite abruptly, that we are no longer 13 or 14 years old. That's good, we think, but watching Connor and Tessa snooze away in contortionist positions while we tried to turn our catnaps into some kind of REM experience just made the night longer. Twelve hours later, found us bleary-eyed and hot and sticky as well as an hour and half late for our arrival in Corfu. Normally, this kind of thing is not a big deal but it was Sunday, which meant...

Leaving Pompei was much easier than the day before and our trip to Bari to drop off the car occurred without incident, despite some really high speed maniacs on the Autostada. We asked for directions to the airport so we could return the car and congratulated ourselves when we got there. We had driven a car for three weeks in Italy and were returning it unscathed. Barry checked the odometer and we'd clocked 3050 kilometres. What a great trip, paid for using our ...

Thankfully, our last night in Italy was a restful one. The temperature was probably only 26 or so. At this point, it was heaven. We awoke to a beautiful day and headed for the ruins of Pompei. We'd printed off a walking tour by Rick Steves and looked forward to the experience. We arrived in quick time to no line-ups. In we went, only to discover, moments later, that we were at the wrong starting point for our walking tour. As we headed back to the entrance, about...