Loch Ness in the Background

Getting in touch with Scottish heritage (not ours, obviously)

---

May 15th 2009
Getting in touch with Scottish heritage, or, The English are All Bastard-People! In contrast to yesterday’s stunning sunshiny weather, today was drab, dreary and wet. Rain rolled into the UK with a vengeance. Jer and I aren’t strangers to rain. We live in Seattle, for crying out loud! We KNOW rain. We know rain like true Northwesterners, so much so that we can discern between a drizzle a ... read more

Europe » United Kingdom » Scotland » Inverness-shire » Culloden

---

Great Britain, the dominant industrial and maritime power of the 19th century, played a leading role in developing parliamentary democracy and in advancing literature and science. At its zenith, the British Empire stretched over one-fourth of the ear... ... read more