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Scotland: Day 3: Dundee: Dreich but delightful
Thursday 17 Nov: My second birthday celebration in Scotland! I wake up refreshed in spite of the fiasco that met our arrival. I’ve been looking forward to a traditional UK breakfast and I know that the Apex City Quay does not disappoint. For those who don’t know, the British breakfast is a belly buster: eggs,…
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Scotland: Day 1 and 2: Dundee: Delay…
Tuesday 15 Nov: Calm before the storm Waiting to board our flight at Newark Liberty International As we head off from Abington College campus on an over-large bus (more on this later), I have to pinch myself. This day has been so long in the planning and so often delayed by COVID that it’s hard…
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Off to Scotland
Short post… we travel to Scotland today! Never have I felt so simultaneously over- and under-prepared for anything! The next few posts will be short-form impressions of the trip as it happens. I hope readers will enjoy our progress and discoveries. Post-script Well, I had no idea that “herding the cats” — that is, leading…
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Refining the itinerary for Aberdeenshire
Time doesn’t permit a long and carefully edited post this week. We are busy, one month away from our journey, tweaking and refining our study-abroad day in Aberdeenshire, which I am dubbing the “Aberdeenshire Archaeology Tour.” Many sites in this area close down for touring after October, and this necessarily limits what we can do.…
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“New” information on Kirkton of Aboyne
A Scottish collaborator I have a new collaborator in Scotland: a cousin whose relation to me stems from George Cromar 1735, son of Peter Cromar 1690 and younger brother to Robert 1717. She sent me an image of a map of Kirkton of Aboyne which I can say is supremely helpful for our upcoming visit…
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On returning to Scotland (again and again)
Yes, it has been a LONG hiatus from journaling, and I have left many promises from prior posts unfulfilled. I have, at least, one excuse: we are quite busy preparing for our study-abroad journey to Scotland — again! Just as I intend to keep our promise to get students to Scotland, I intend to keep…
