Edinburgh to London – August 4th – 5th 2017 Who plans a train ride from Edinburgh to King’s Cross (a crazy busy station) on a Friday during the weekend and after work rush? We do of course!!!! The train ride into the city was lovely. Best way to travel. Lots of leg room, we could...
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Lanark – August 2nd 2017 I wasn’t exactly thrilled to walk around an old cemetery. I’ve never thought of them to be places to hang out (just like the rest of the worlds population I’m sure). But we were driving to a small town called Lanark to check one out. This was a town where...
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Edinburgh – July 29th – 30th 2017 Edinburgh Scotland was up next. A quick 45 min flight from Belfast and we were in the next country. No Airbnb this time! Mark’s Mom’s cousin, John offered to have us stay with him and his son Michael. Our first day was spent sprawled out and relaxing, meeting...
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Off to Ireland – July 22nd 2017 Our first real long travel day experience was not so WOW. With a 6:20am flight we were up at just after 3am to get ready to go. Kids (and us) barely slept. Flight was delayed a tad and WOW air didn’t really wow us. We arrived into Dublin...
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Road to Vik – July 20th 2017 You can’t sit still for too long in Iceland. There is just way too much to see. On this particular day we were going to have a few hour drive to the town of Vik and then back. What looked like a 5.5-6 hour day on paper turned...
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Adventure Day – July 18th 2017 The Golden Circle is the route. They said it would be about 3 hours to drive it. Add time for each stop. In the end our day was 7.5 hours. And you know what? We loved it!! First stop was Thingvellir National Park. A very cool area where the...
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Quick Stop in Winnipeg – July 12th – 16th 2017 We had a quick stop in Winnipeg to see family before heading out on our big adventure. We were fed well, had a nice time and saw a few Winnipeg sights. The Forks was a neat little public market with some great little shops to...
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