During my brief visit to Edinburgh, I was picked up by relatives who showed me around the family's historic sites, which included the original old stone part of the house that my great-great-great grandparents lived in over 400 years ago.
Michael speaks about his not returning to Smallville. C'mon! How can they get rid of Lex Luthor when Clark isn't officially Superman?!
While in Edinburgh for the day, I met family who took me to various sites that involved my family. This video shows several clips involving the Covenanters. My 8th Great-Grandfather was Thomas Brownlee, 2nd Laird of Torfoot, who fought in the Battles of Drumclog & Bothwell Bridge, where he was captured, held in an outdoor prison at Greyfriars Churchyard before being put on a ship that wrecked off the Orkney Islands. He was one of app. 50 survivors.
This was such a friendly place. We went for a walk and bought some t-shirts & a "Nessie" and bagpipe-playing teddy bear for the kids. And beautiful scenery coming into and out of the area.
I was up and on the balcony at 5 am looking for the monument to the Covenanters who died when the ship they were on, the Crown of London, sank. My 8th Great-Grandfather was one of the few survivors. I did get it, but didn't realize it until I got home and was editing the footage!
While in Oban, it was raining quite a bit, so we didn't get off the ship. But we did have a very nice view of the port & town. Unfortunately for one of the guests on our ship, she fell off the pier onto the rocks at low tide and was taken away in an ambulance. I believe she met up with the ship a few ports later.
Aboard Azamara Journey we went to Falmouth Cornwall England. It rained the entire day which cancelled the boat show they had scheduled in town, but we still enjoyed watching the harbor.
On the Azamara Journey leaving out of Copenhagen, Denmark on July 31, 2008. (Langelinie pier.) If you ever get to cruise out of this port, make sure you go a day early so you can see the city! It's beautiful, but since I missed my connecting flight in Paris & got there late, my friend, Diane, and I only got to see what was between the airport & the pier on our mad dash to make the ship!
This was in Dublin, Ireland, where we got off the ship to eat at a pub and walk around briefly, catching this street performer.
A very quick trip to Belfast, Ireland; didn't turn out the way we had hoped.
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