Monthly Archives: September 2004

World Cup of Hockey and Other London Shots

Shots from around town HERE

Scotland Day 3 & 4

Photos here
Day 3: Another giant breakfast, and back into the car for a drive around the island.  Today we tried something new: single track roads.  When you come up against oncoming traffic, one of you has to pull over.  Very fun, let me assure you.  Up to Neist Point (scenic), down to the Piper’s Museum [...]

Scotland Days 1 & 2

Photos here
Day 1 (Sunday, September 19): We woke up bright and early to get the bus & train to Gatwick. Coming into Inverness we could see oil rigs in the firth. Turns out that is where they store the unused rigs. We picked up a small car (Vauxhall Astra) at the airport and drove to Culloden [...]

Oxford

Oxford is one of the world’s best-know university towns. It has been settled for since 4000BC (similarly to London, there is an unlikely legend that the town was founded by Trojans looking for a new home after the Greeks torched theirs), and was mostly ignored through Roman times. In the late Saxon period it was [...]

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