I remember once in Madison, I had a horrific experience with the metro bus system that left me stranded halfway across Madison and I had to walk back to the dorms in the middle of the night. Well, imagine that now magnified several dozen times in terms of horribleness. I’ve been on trains now for […]

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I’m very pleased to report that I’ve now seen both of the castles used in Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail as of today! After we left Oban this morning from the hostel, we haded out into the highland farms on the much-lauded “Hairy Coo Safari.” Now before any of you read […]

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Thankfully, the weather today has been excellent! Internet access (for free at least, for a cheap fellow like me) is scarce in this part of the world, and I’ve been scraping by as I go. However, it’s been a whirlwind of a trip, which is sadly unfortunate. I gave myself about two weeks to see […]

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The tour bus is currently speeding up through the highland Grampian Mountains right now, and since we’ve all got a bit of whiskey packed into us now (no one more than myself) I thought I’d take some time to tear my eyes off the beautiful rocky vistas around us and type out a quick memo […]

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Yes, you can tell that I really worked for the punni-ness of that title there. I’ll have to keep this one short (comparatively speaking) because once again I’m dead tired from walking all over the Old Towne of Edinburgh today, even after my amazing sleep last night (I must have slept 11 hours without flinching!) […]

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The Scottish Borders region is pretty, but without a mode of reliable transportation to get you from one part of the county to another, there’s unfortunately not very much to see in each individual town. I’ve been in Melrose now since about noon, and after finding the youth hostel I was booked at discovered that […]

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