My Night in a Haunted Castle

  You can already tell it’s haunted can’t you?  About half way between Glasgow and Edinburgh, you’ll find Airth Castle in Falkirk, Scotland. This castle-turned-hotel-and-spa boasts around 500 years of history, which naturally means 500 years of ghosts!!!  That is, at least according to their Wikipedia page. I booked a room at the Airth Castle…

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Why Loch Ness?

“Why Loch Ness?” is a question I got from many Scots I spoke with before my trip.  The answer was a resounding, “Oh that’s right, you’re American.”  Of course it should have been, “monsters, duh!” The possibility of monsters is what attracted me to Loch Ness in the first place, but after hearing time and…

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Food and Wine: Round One

Friday September 27st, 2013- Epcot’s International Food and Wine Festival opening day! If you read my previous post, you know I plan on revisiting the food and wine festival about a hundred times before it’s all said and done.  So, this first trip was not about making it around the world as much as it…

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