A soujourn in Scotland

Our brief stay in Scotland is nearly at an end!

Some travel highlights, in chronological order:

• Dumfries
• Angus
• Stirling
• Glencoe
• Western Lochaber
• Ardnamurchan
• Tobermory
• Calgary
• Iona
• St Andrews
• Glasgow

And now we're back in Dumfries again, with my parents. We'll be back up to Glasgow soon to catch our train to Paris on Monday morning.

Some event highlights:

• Susan and Stephen's wedding! Susan is an old friend of mine from uni, who now lives in Dubai, where she met some bloke called Stephen. Their wedding was really lovely, in a beautiful country estate. It was also great to see old friends at the reception.
• Travelling with Jeff! Jeff is a good friend of ours, a former OSU graduate student (who has since graduated and moved on to other things), and he was in Scotland to attend a phonetics conference (see next bullet). We decided we'd all take a trip to the highlands and the Isle of Mull, to show Jeff some of the "real" Scotland (and lots of sheep).
• Phonetics conference! I've been networking and sciencing at a week-long conference in Glasgow while Talia entertains herself and has tea with friends.
• Seeing family and friends! This is definitely the best part, and the most bittersweet, since there were several people who we weren't able to see on this trip. Still, it's been very good to get to hang out and catch up with various people who mean a lot to us both.

Me and Talia in the dramatic landscape of Glencoe

Sorry for the telegraphic nature of this post - I really ought to be (re)packing my bags in preparation for our departure! Scotland, I will miss you, but we'll be back soon, don't despair.

The sun setting over the Atlantic at our hotel in Morar