Before I bought my tickets for Scotland, I had no real idea what to expect there. I didn’t know much about the country other than kilts and bagpipes. I soon discovered that going to Scotland in August–anywhere in Scotland–is somewhat problematic, because everyone and their brother comes to Scotland in August due to the Edinburgh […]
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I know what it sounds like. It sounds like you’re going to go to a big convention hall and check out tattoos all afternoon. But remember, this is Scotland, and they roll a bit differently there. The “tattoo” you’re thinking about comes from the Samoan word ta-tau. The “tattoo” they’re thinking about comes from the
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Well, I’m back. Feeling more like Bilbo Baggins at the end of the Hobbit than I’d like, especially since I didn’t come home with a chest full of dragon loot. No, if you weren’t following along with the saga on Facebook, I didn’t really come home with anything. Instead, I left my appendix in Glasgow.
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A heads up that I’m heading off to Scotland on Sunday, so the blog posts are going to be . . . non-existent while I’m gone. What am I going to be up to? Some of it is business: it’s the World Science Fiction Convention in Glasgow next weekend. The rest of it will be
I am not a pineapple expert by any means. I know what they look like. I know what they taste like. I wouldn’t be able to pick a ripe pineapple if my life depended on it. Until. I took a tour of the Maui Gold Pineapple Plantation. It took around an hour and a half,
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