Makar's Mash Bar is a TripAdvisor "Best of the Best" restaurant, the #1 casual eat in the UK and #9 in the world for the past seven years.

Real Mary King's Close was rated 2024's top UK attraction by TripAdvisor. We visited it and St. Giles Cathedral on our first full day.

Craigmillar Castle is Edinburgh's OTHER castle, but is in beautiful ruins.

I love "The Crown," although I'm not a royalist. A has watched the episode about the royal yacht's decommission, so we visited it.

A wee bit of Scotland - A and I travelled to Edinburgh this past summer. We stayed at the Ocean Mist Leath and visited Cramond Beach first.

The Windy City. Chi-Town. Second City (which begs the question - where is First City?). I'm sure there are other nicknames for Chicago.

Red, White, and "I Do" - I got to take a little journey to the Garden State for a 4th of July wedding at the Somerset Patriots game

Sargassum and shorties.

For an anniversary trip, J and I went to Stillwater, MN. I'd read about a bed and breakfast named the Rivertown Inn . Each room is...

I ate zero cake.

The Metro is just gorgeous, as is Musee d'Orsay.

The French-est of the French - the Notre Dame and the Louvre

360-degree stained glass? Don't mind if I do!

I like Big Bens, and I cannot lie.

A pretty good "name three facts and a lie" fact about me is that I was at Buckingham Palace the day the queen died and ended her reign.

When a friend and I went to Paris, the only place I cared about visiting were the Catacombs.

La Madeleine was special to me.

The One With the Giant Traffic Circle

A quick trip down the Seine on a cruise, beginning and ending at the Eiffel Tower.

I understand why The Beach Boys kept singing so many songs about surfing now.