Barra

Meeting the rare ponies

[Sept. 2023] At the Castlebay Hotel where we stayed on Barra Island in the Hebrides of Scotland, the check-out time was 10:30, which was as early as a Japanese inn. Moreover, it says that it…

Barra

Touring the island with a middle-aged newlywed

[Sept. 2023] We toured the Isle of Barra, which belongs to the Hebrides Islands in Scotland. We had researched it online and booked a taxi in advance. Actually, the driver and his son listed on…

Edinburgh

My miscellaneous thoughts about Edinburgh

[June 2021] I would like to write down what I noticed and what I was surprised at, during our one-month stay in Edinburgh, Scotland, which I could not cover so far. We stayed at an…

Melrose

Visit Melrose Abbey

[June 2021] On the last Saturday of our one-month stay in Edinburgh, the weather was not good, but we visited Melrose in southern Scotland as planned. Again, I’ve been there once with my parents long…

Falkirk

Linlithgow Palace was closed..

[June 2021] After Falkirk, a short trip with a couple of friends who came to Scotland during our stay in Edinburgh, we went to Linlithgow Palace. This is famous as the birthplace of Mary Stuart,…

Fife

Culross Palace, worth seeing inside

[June 2021] The highlights of Culross, a small town in the Fife region of Scotland, are the palace and the ruins of abbey. We couldn’t buy an admission ticket for the palace because they were…

Fife

Found the scenery I was looking for in Culross

[June 2021] On our third Saturday in Edinburgh, Scotland, we went to Culross, a small town in the Fife region. The weather forecast was bad, so I checked the train connections on Sunday, but it…