After a lovely stop for lunch at Canonsgate Arms, we walked (trekked, as it turned out) to the Royal Botanical Gardens. The walk was through a very cool part of town. When we reached the gardens themselves, I asked a very helpful man named Neil if there was anything in particular I should see regarding…
Our first day in Edinburgh
As promised, I’m going to go back to our days in Edinburgh since I didn’t have much chance to blog about them yet. We landed at about 8am local time, but to our bodies it was about 3 in the morning. We stumbled off the plane, went through customs and found a very nice, very…
Pere LaChaise and Sacre Coeur: Paris
On the outskirts of the city is Pere LaChaise cemetery. It’s an enormous graveyard and is full of generation of families and famous ex-pats. There are several notables buried here, including Edith Piaf, Jane Avril, Stephan Grappelli, and Seurat, to name a few. It would be impossible to find all of these graves, but we…
Brompton Cemetery. London.
Edinburgh: More Day One
Author of “Horology” Gravestone in Calton Hill Cemetery View of the Forth of Firth View from Old Calton Hill to the northeast. The thing that looks like a firepit just right of center was part of Robert the Bruce’s castle. View from Calton Hill towards the city center, to the south.