The drive up from Edinburgh to Inverness is rather easy and quick. We made time to stop at the Blair Castle where we encountered some amazingly friendly and knowledgeable staff who took such a genuine interest in our plans for the rest of our time in Scotland. One brought up a good point that many […]
Our first day in Edinburgh – after the fateful “James McAvoy” airport gaff (if you haven’t seen his air traffic control SNL skit, please do so now) – consisted of getting familiar with our immediate surroundings. Like any good cat in a new home we started small. Our apartment is superbly located about a block […]
The annual Rubin adventure has brought us somewhere new – the beautiful country of Scotland! Once again we are traveling with our kiddo in tow who continues to get more mobile and verbal (odd how that happens eh?) which makes our trips infinitely more entertaining and infinitely more exhausting. Z’s understanding of this trip has […]
Obviously a main pull of visiting Dubrovnik is to visit the walls of the Old Town. Flying in to the airport you can catch sneak peaks of the imposing walls from afar. Once on the ground it’s about a 20 m drive from the airport to the actual city and all along the windy coast […]
I’m going to be honest, sometimes I think we are crazy for continuing our yearly adventures with a little one in tow. My anxiety goes up a lot sooner as we near our departure date, the flights are always a hope and a prayer…you know, more so than regular flights are…and with the added joy […]
Why hello faithful blog readers! Hello? …hello…? Ok, I realize it’s been a literal year since my last blog entry, but in my defense, I am terrible at maintaining a regular writing schedule. Anyway, welcome back! We decided on Croatia for our yearly trip and blogging spree. Having heard wonderful things about it from a […]
We decided to take a weekend trip to celebrate our ten year wedding anniversary. Luckily this coincided with Adam’s parents traveling in Amsterdam and they were willing to spend a few nights alone with the kiddo so that we could have some baby-free time. After looking through several potential destinations, our only limitations being they […]
We’ve been in Amsterdam for five days now and the jetlag is slowly getting less pronounced. Each day has followed a similar pattern of waking, abruptly, at some point in the wee hours of the morning to convince our little one to at least wait for the sun to get up before getting out of […]