Ireland/UK Day 14 July 4, 2023 13 miles hiked The best bit about staying in a bed and breakfast is the breakfast. Ours is large, filling, and very Scottish; I think I consume an entire day’s worth of sodium in the bacon alone. There’s also homemade marmalade and preserves, which the owners make themselves. As …
Ireland/UK Day 12 July 2, 2023 15.4 miles hiked Despite feeling like absolute death last night, I feel pretty good this morning—after stretching anyway. I guess this achilles thing is just going to be for life. I need to make sure I do better with doing all of my stretches every single day, before and …
Ireland/UK Day 11 July 1, 2023 19.3 miles hiked I’m out of practice with getting ready for a long hiking day. I fumble around with the coffee maker, pack some things, forget some other things I was going to pack, have to repack, mess up the Nespresso somehow, the simplest coffee maker ever, have to …
Continue reading West Highland Way Day 1: Milngavie to Balmaha
Friday, June 30, 2023 How is it already the last day of June? I don’t know where time goes and why it still surprises me that it goes there. Today’s a travel day. We wake up with the alarms and pack up our stuff in the Dublin apartment. It was really nice to stay in …
Thursday, June 29, 2023 Today is our last day in Dublin, and it’s a full and joyous one. We start off a the Little Museum of Dublin, which is just down the street and on the other side of St. Stephen’s Green. We’re a bit too late for the 10:00 tour so we go next …
Wednesday, June 28, 2023 *Note: This post contains a lot of historical and political information that was told to us directly by a person with a clear bias. I fact-checked afterwards with research of my own, but it's still likely that I got things wrong. If you're an expert in this area and have a …
Continue reading Ireland and UK Day 8: Belfast and the Giant’s Causeway
Wednesday, June 21, 2023 Hello from the other side of the Atlantic! I’m traveling with my mom for four weeks through England, Ireland, and Scotland, and I’m going to write about it. I debated for a long time whether I was going to blog this trip. I brought along my bluetooth keyboard that I used …
Continue reading Ireland and UK Summer Extravaganza: Day 1 in London
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