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Located just a few blocks away from the Royal Mile, Greyfriars Kirkyard is one of the most famous cemeteries in the world.

Makar's Mash Bar is a TripAdvisor "Best of the Best" restaurant, the #1 casual eat in the UK and #9 in the world for the past seven years.

Real Mary King's Close was rated 2024's top UK attraction by TripAdvisor. We visited it and St. Giles Cathedral on our first full day.

Craigmillar Castle is Edinburgh's OTHER castle, but is in beautiful ruins.

I love "The Crown," although I'm not a royalist. A has watched the episode about the royal yacht's decommission, so we visited it.

A wee bit of Scotland - A and I travelled to Edinburgh this past summer. We stayed at the Ocean Mist Leath and visited Cramond Beach first.

C$ and I went to the poppy field to try out some jumbo bubbles I won at a winery bingo tournament. (Those words are nonsense together.)

Day 2 of poppies in south Ames.

A bucket list of mine was fulfilled when I got to visit a poppy field that was planted in south Ames. I visited several times; this is 1st.

The Windy City. Chi-Town. Second City (which begs the question - where is First City?). I'm sure there are other nicknames for Chicago.

For her birthday trip when she became a teenager, A and I went to Portland, Oregon. We went because she knew she'd love how goofy it...

Red, White, and "I Do" - I got to take a little journey to the Garden State for a 4th of July wedding at the Somerset Patriots game

Sargassum and shorties.

For an anniversary trip, J and I went to Stillwater, MN. I'd read about a bed and breakfast named the Rivertown Inn . Each room is...

I ate zero cake.

The Metro is just gorgeous, as is Musee d'Orsay.

The French-est of the French - the Notre Dame and the Louvre

360-degree stained glass? Don't mind if I do!

I like Big Bens, and I cannot lie.

A pretty good "name three facts and a lie" fact about me is that I was at Buckingham Palace the day the queen died and ended her reign.