Colburn's Travels: June 2008

Saturday, June 28, 2008

Cousins

We met up with the other cousins in El Salvador

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Wednesday, June 25, 2008

At DFW

With our friends Tom and Teri.

We are on are way to El Salvador.

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Monday, June 23, 2008

T ball

Eric and Alex both went to t ball today.

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Friday, June 20, 2008

BTW This was a joke.

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Thursday, June 19, 2008

Milwaukee

Back to the USA on a small 'left over' trip to see the cousins in Milwaukee.

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Sunday, June 8, 2008

St Andrews

The birthplace of golf

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Saturday, June 7, 2008

Oban harbor

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Friday, June 6, 2008

Oban, Scotland

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Lock Ness

Monster in background.

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Urquhart castle

On edge of Loch Ness

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Loch Ness

A lot of questions about the monster.

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Thursday, June 5, 2008

Battle of Culloden

The field of the battle of Culloden between the Scots and Britons in 1746.

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Glenfiddich

After arriving in Aberdeen by ferry we now have to drive all the way across Scotland.

Our first impromtu stop on our new itinerary was the Glenfiddich distillery on the mail whiskey trail.

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Colburn

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Ferry

A little crowded...but at least we did not Sleep with stranges.

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Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Fog

Lots of it

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Fog

Fog...yes, we actually drive across the runway.

After 2 weather delay days trying to leave the Shetlands the local people strongly suggested we take the ferry to Aberdeen....so off we go to our 14 hour ferry ride in the north atlantc.

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Our Viking / Islands with sheep tour: Greenland to Iceland to Faroe Islands to Shetland Island to Orkney Island to Mainland Scotland.

We had our 2 x mechanical delays and 1 x weather delay (which we are still on)

Also the connections aren't as easy as shown (i.e. we had to go to Copenhagen / Aberdeen for a connection)

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Monday, June 2, 2008

Vikings

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Shetland

Arrived in the Shetland Islands ... Like all the other islands we been to many sheep, rocks, and nice scenery.

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Sunday, June 1, 2008

Faroes

We arrived to the Faroe Islands...a lot milder that Iceland.

The Faroes have their own language, parliment, and flag, although Danish is taught in all schools. They are called a self governing region of Denmark, but their currency and culture still have strong ties to Denmark.

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Pyramid

The Faroes were obviously the developers of the pyramid.